While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proclaimed that it will make Mumbai free of open defecation by 2019, it has left a huge toilet block, with 46 loos, near the popular Maharashtra Nature Park in Mahim, locked for 12 years. The BMC has said it was a faulty drainage system that had forced them to keep the toilet block locked ever since it was inaugurated in January 2004.

Inaugurated by the then political biggies in 2004, this public toilet near the Maharashtra Nature Park should be operational by August end, says an eternally optimistic BMC. Pics/Datta Kumbhar