Currently, Gandhinagar City is having an ODF++ status according to Swachh Sarvekshan 2019. The study shows how certain managemental and cost-effective methods can be used by Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation to invite holistic participation from contractors and citizens for keeping the toilets clean and eradicate open defecation in and around slums and other open defecation prone areas coming under GMC's boundary. Based on primary surveys prior COVID situations the following proposals have been made.
Usually, Public toilets are built and maintained by ULB and used by floating population on the other hand community toilets are built by ULB but maintained by the community itself since majority of it’s users are a defined group of residents.
But over here in Gandhinagar city, both Community and Public toilets are built and maintained by GMC. No charge is taken from the users.
Organogram of the Sanitation Department of Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation looks like this.For ease of understanding the assessment was done looking on 2 perspectives which dominate the toilet assessment process according to CPHEEO manual:
1st is the basic infrastructure which GMC should provide
2nd is the condition of operation and maintenance services provided by Agency
After surveying the 48 toilets the following outcomes were recorded.
After surveying the 6 toilets the following outcomes were recorded.
Comparing the service level indicators it was concluded that due to lack of supervision, coordination and document sharing among GMC employees and agency, major impact led to open defecation in and around unsupervised places.
From the above assessments and evaluation with support of primary surveys, we can see there are various types of issues which can be broadly classified are as follows.
Installation of 4 components at the respective places which came out of my analysis above.
Rs 20,050 comes as a capital expenditure estimated for installing the mandatory infrastructure.
Primary proposal is to use the sanitation budget to allocate funds for the purpose.
The current tenure of contract is for 2 years and has been extended for 3 months due to the tendering process not getting completed. So for the next contract which will be done in the month of June 2020, should have the suggested 5 major improvements regarding Job descriptions, checklists, implementation of penalties, advertising to generate revenue and implementation of ICT complaint redressal system.
Lastly to capture all the aspects to prevent open defecation a strategy needs to be followed with the following highlights.
