North Delhi Municipal Corporation has 1,163 urinals, 499 community toilets, 41 women toilets and 318 waterless urinals in six zones. The pilot project will kick off from Karol Bagh

easy access to public conveniences in the city, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has initiated a project for putting the details of these facilities on Google Maps.

On a pilot basis, details of the restrooms and urinals in Karol Bagh Zone have been placed on Google Maps. “We had asked the officials to visit all 210 toilet complexes in this zone and obtain their latitude and longitude for sharing it on Google. It took them three days to upload the information and now one can find their locations on smart phones, using GPS,” said Nitin Pramod, deputy commissioner, Karol Bagh Zone.

The civic agency has 1,163 urinals, 499 toilet complexes, 41 women toilets and 318 waterless urinals in six zones — City, Karol Bagh, Chandni Chowk, Civil lines, Rohini and Narela.

The details of the loos can also be accessed by typing the name of the road where one is travelling. “Considering the people are not well acquainted with the boundaries of Karol Bagh or any other zone, they can simply search the list of MCDs toilets by typing the name of the road such as Pusa Road, Rohtak Road and Faiz Road,” said Pramod.

Officials said that the department had cleaned these complexes before uploading details. “Still if anyone has problems with cleaning arrangements then he/she can complaint on the numbers pasted outside the complex. The department is still in the process to complete repair work and arrange for water supply at some places,” said a North MCD official.

Following the implementation of this project in Karol Bagh zone, the sanitation department has started preparing the details of public toilets in the remaining five zones for uploading them on Google Maps.

But if this development would help in increasing the number of users remains a question.

“People don’t want to use these facilities even as last option. Most of them have no water, lights and even doors are missing. Despite transferring the maintenance of public toilets to the concessionaire nothing has changed. Similar is the case with public urinals ,” said Sanjay Bhargav, a trader at Chandni Chowk.