The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has scrapped its ambitious project of increasing the number of community toilet seats by 50 per cent in slums. Under the project, sanctioned in January 2019, the BMC was to build 22,774 toilet seats within a year. But even after three years only 56 per cent of toilets are built.

The BMC had decided in 2017 to construct 16,703 toilet seats in place of old 14,173 toilet seats. In addition, 6,071 new toilet seats were supposed to be constructed. The procedure for the tender took place in 2018 and the standing committee approved the project in January 2019. As per the proposal, the toilets were supposed to be completed within a year. The amount of R422 crore was sanctioned for the project, the BMC could not provide a figure for how much of this sum was spent.