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Women will be accorded priority under the Swachh Bharat Mission while constructing community and public toilets, the Minister of State for Urban Development and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Babul Supriyo, informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply on Thursday.
Under the mission, one community toilet seat per 25 women and one public community toilet seat per 50 women will be built against one seat per 35 and 100, respectively, he said.
Community toilets are proposed to be built for common use of local communities in an area with 40 per cent viability gap funding/grant from the Ministry of Urban Development. Public toilets are to be built on pay and use basis.
It is targeted to build 1.04 crore household toilets and five lakh community and public toilet seats by 2019 under the mission.
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