The city utterly lacks public toilets, and if there are some, they are disgusting and they stink.
None of the public toilets meets the proper sanitation measures.
Chetana Tamang is a bachelor level student at Ratna Rajya Campus. What troubles her every time she is at the college is finding a place when nature calls. “The condition of the toilets here at the college is so pathetic that I have to find a restaurant nearby to relieve myself,” said the 21-year-old college girl. “At times, I just skip class.” Tamang said while college lavatories are unusable, she cannot even think of public toilets in Kathmandu.
Read more...Canadian Deputy High Commissioner to India, with concurrent accreditation to Nepal and Bhutan, Deirdre Kent suggested that public toilets should be more women-friendly.Kent said so during a field visit to a recently built ‘environmentally, socially and economically sustainable’ public toilet at Ratnapark today. She said though public toilets were essential for everyone, concerned agencies should focus on building infrastructure suitable for women.
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सन् २०३० सम्म दिगो विकासका लक्ष्य हासिल गर्न पूर्ण सरसफाइयुक्त नेपाल निर्माण गर्ने हाम्रो संकल्प छ । खुला दिसामुक्त राष्ट्र घोषणापछि हामीले पूर्ण सरसफाइका क्रियाकलाप अगाडि बढाउँछौँ । पूर्ण सरसफाइका ६ सूचकमध्ये चर्पीको समूचित प्रयोग, व्यक्तिगत सरसफाइ, सुरक्षित पानीमा पहुँच तथा प्रयोग, सुरक्षित खानाको प्रयोग, घरायसी एवं संस्थागत सरसफाइ र वातावरणीय सरसफाइका सूचकहरू पूरा गर्न रणनीतिक योजनाका साथ अभियान सञ्चालन गर्छौं ।