GURGAON: In a district declared open defecation loose by way of the state government three months in the past, a small signboard in a slum makes a loud noise. "Yahan shauchalaya ki suvidha nahi hai (there is no toilet facility here)", reads the board at Prem Nagar in Sector 12.
The slum is house to nearly 300 families, all of whom trek a few kilometres day-to-day to the closest open fields to alleviate themselves. Among them is 30-year-old Mithilesh, who was hit by way of a automobile 4 years in the past and her leg was severely fractured. Though the harm has healed, she is not fit enough to walk the gap to the sector.
"I have no option but to defecate in my clothes. Someone in my family has to clean me up. What to do? We have no toilets here," Mithilesh said.
Her neighbour Radha said that each and every morning, ladies of the slum stroll in groups to the bottom beyond Lottery Bazaar with water bottles and cans.
Although there's a public toilet behind the slum, it charges between Rs five and Rs 10 from each and every particular person, which the residents said was no longer affordable on a daily basis. "The toilet charges us every time we go to relieve ourselves. We cannot spare that much of money," said Asha Devi, a slum dweller.
Asha said they had been promised bogs by way of the authorities and had submitted paperwork and identity cards for that.
The residents said they have been now being requested to vacate the land. Sources said that even though the slum is an unauthorised colony, the administration must have constructed transportable bogs there.
The Gurgaon municipal company has claimed to have constructed bogs in slums across the town. But many of us in those spaces have countered the claims.
Asked in regards to the civic frame's declare, Anu Sheokhand, the joint commissioner of Zone II and nodal officer for the Swachh Bharat project in Gurgaon, said: "We have built toilets for the slums in a complex nearby. We are supposed to construct such facilities within 500 metres."
The slum is house to nearly 300 families, all of whom trek a few kilometres day-to-day to the closest open fields to alleviate themselves. Among them is 30-year-old Mithilesh, who was hit by way of a automobile 4 years in the past and her leg was severely fractured. Though the harm has healed, she is not fit enough to walk the gap to the sector.
"I have no option but to defecate in my clothes. Someone in my family has to clean me up. What to do? We have no toilets here," Mithilesh said.
Her neighbour Radha said that each and every morning, ladies of the slum stroll in groups to the bottom beyond Lottery Bazaar with water bottles and cans.
Although there's a public toilet behind the slum, it charges between Rs five and Rs 10 from each and every particular person, which the residents said was no longer affordable on a daily basis. "The toilet charges us every time we go to relieve ourselves. We cannot spare that much of money," said Asha Devi, a slum dweller.
Asha said they had been promised bogs by way of the authorities and had submitted paperwork and identity cards for that.
The residents said they have been now being requested to vacate the land. Sources said that even though the slum is an unauthorised colony, the administration must have constructed transportable bogs there.
The Gurgaon municipal company has claimed to have constructed bogs in slums across the town. But many of us in those spaces have countered the claims.
Asked in regards to the civic frame's declare, Anu Sheokhand, the joint commissioner of Zone II and nodal officer for the Swachh Bharat project in Gurgaon, said: "We have built toilets for the slums in a complex nearby. We are supposed to construct such facilities within 500 metres."
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