Poornima Nair, Director, Health and Disability speaks to Hindustan Times about how the lack of community toilets in M East Ward forces people to stand in long queues or resort to open defecation. More than a year after the MSHRC order, nothing has changed.
Arun Kumar, in conversation with Mumbai Mirror, speaks about how Apnalaya’s intervention in the Shivaji Nagar area had encouraged 100 per cent institutional deliveries. However, Covid-19 brought down the percentage of institutional delivery by six in just three months.
In This IDR article, Sarojini Pradhan and Momali Banerjee talk about how people in Shivaji Nagar still pay for toilets. At the onset of the COVID-19 lockdown, the government announced that no fees would be charged to use the toilets, but this does not seem to be the ground reality here.
