Coin-operated 'she-toilets' set to make it to Mumbai - Any one know about these toilets?

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Back from Kerala where they saw the concept in action, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) Solid Waste Management (SWM) department officials are planning to soon start ‘she-toilets' in Mumbai for women.

The she-toilets are technology driven and Kerala was the first state to introduce the concept three years ago. She-toilets consist of stainless steel toilet booths which have a coin-operated door, a sanitary napkin vending machine, an incinerator to burn the napkins and automatic flush. The most important feature of she-toilets is an attached bacterial tank in which the waste will undergo biodegradation and only water will be left. The civic body has decided to go ahead with a pilot project in 11 locations in the island city. The SWM department is in the process of finalising the locations where these toilets can be set up in about a month's time. SWM department's Executive Engineer, U A Shiroorkar had gone to Kerala on January 24 with other engineers to understand the project. -

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  2. Its a fantastic and innovative technology,well it would have been announced and presented in our recent sanitation session at our last meeting at India Water Week-2015.Many other states in India are need of such Hygienic toilet system to prevent toilet related /public defecation- we highly appreciate and congratulate the team involved for this great research and development for the public health.

  3. Every Petrol Bunk on the highways must have this facility to enable easement for public driving through a long distance on highways. Excellent initiative needs to do more research on use of different materials of construction (one option would be recycled construction & demolition waste) to reduce the capex and opex.