New Delhi: New Delhi City Council opened the first toilet complex in the city for the third gender opposite Shastri Bhawan on Monday and planned to build more complexes.
Facilities developed near the Indian parking press club under the Mission of Swachh Bharat was inaugurated by members of the Transgender Community in front of the Chairman of the NDMC Dharmendra.
This project is part of this year’s budget and built on pilots.
“There are online feedback machines and register for opinions about adding or improving facilities.
Because the feedback machine is integrated with control and command center, it will automatically be forwarded to NDMC,” said B M Mishra, Secretary of the Civic Body.
Based on feedback, we will take work on other sites and integrate the requested changes.
“This complex also has toilet facilities for regular users and special people and will open starting at 6am to 10pm.” This has been developed based on public-private partnerships and concession holders will be responsible for maintenance, “said an NDMC official.
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In February, the Delhi government instructed all departments, offices, district authorities, city corporations and Delhi police had separate and exclusive bathrooms for transgender people.
Commands also emphasize that trans-people must be allowed to use gender-based toilets according to type Their genitals were identified themselves.
This government agency was given a maximum of two years to build this exclusive toilet.
Prior to this, in 2014, the Supreme Court has agreed to the ‘third gender status’ to transgender people and also directs the creation of separate toilets for them at public places, including hospitals.
Moving NDMC TELA H was welcomed by the transgender community, but its members were concerned about the pace of the implementation of the Supreme Court’s direction.
Abhina Aher, a Transgender Activist and the founder of the equity of transgender welfare and empowerment, said, “We welcome to move by NDMC because we know how difficult it is for people like us to access public urinals.
When we use a woman’s toilet, people make comments Rough and officers are not happy to let us enter.
“Rupika Dhillon, chairman, the community for the care and empowerment of people’s awareness, said that the facility would help create a safe space for transgender.
“I am happy that at least some civilian / civil bodies have led and implemented direction in exclusive toilets for the community.
More must be built because it is their fundamental rights,” Dhillon said.
Anjan Joshi, a fellow Dhillon activist, said, “One toilet in the city of Delhi is only a token but still a ray of hope.” Associating slow progress in this problem to the transgender community not to become a sound bank, Sowmaya Gupta, a transgender activist, said, “Lutyens’ Delhi is not the whole of Delhi.
The NDMC area is a luxurious, mostly with the government office.
I think we should look beyond Lutyens ‘Delhi and make facilities in other parts of the city where they are very prompted.
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He, he & them: toilet for the third gender in Delhi
