First two-storey toilets

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will be the country’s first to build two-storey public toilets across the city. While the ground floor is meant for ladies, the first floor will be used by men. Within the next two years, KMC has decided to build 170 such toilets. The cost of building each toilet stands at र18 lakh of which र17 lakh will be funded by the Centre. Once complete, the toilets will be handed over to self-help groups for maintenance. With merely 225 public toilets spread across the city, the civic bosses were in search of space and funds for construction of more toilets in Kolkata.