Coimbatore: Gandhipuram City Bus Terminal, which used thousands of passengers every day, is a picture of neglect.
Even though there is a toilet on the number platform one of the terminals, passengers are hesitant to use the same, because they don’t have cleanliness.
Most people prefer to lighten themselves in an open place outside the terminal.
Passengers demand City Corporation to improve toilet cleanliness and regulate additional toilet facilities to meet increasing demand.
The toilet e-toilet at the bus terminal has been dysfunctional for months together.
They used only for several months after installation, passenger said.
V Pavithran, an ordinary passenger, said he had used the toilet, which was not clean, only once.
“But pressing the need to relieve themselves, I will not use the toilet at the bus terminal.
I will wait to reach the house or destination I am headed.
While adequate water is available in the toilet, cleanliness compromised.” Toilet for disabled people is, while That, always locked.
Anti-social elements use facilities to consume liquor, say vendors in the terminal, a place filled with waste and waste materials.
Robin Benifer, District Coordinator, Association of Spinal Injured People, said while the Gandhipuram bus terminal was the only bus terminal in the city to have separate toilets for disabled people, the same thing was not used.
“Many disabled people hesitate to get out of their homes because of the lack of ramp and toilet facilities for them.” When contacted, a corporate official said it was a public who damaged the e-toilet.
“It is a salary and use facility.
Users must include coins to use the toilet.
They damage it while trying to use the facility without entering the coin.” He said the cleanliness of the toilet that there will be immediately repaired.
Najis Toilet, Place in the Gandhipuram Bus Terminal Continue to Vex Passenger
