Although the Pune Municipal Corporation has time and again claimed that women’s safety and convenience is a priority issue, it seems less consistent when it actually comes to taking action. Case in point – the gents’ public toilets situated bang opposite the all-girls Hujurpaga High School.

Students of the all-girls Hujurpaga High School brave the reek from the public toilets placed right outside their school. Pics/Shashank Sane

For the past two years, the school authorities have repeatedly requested the civic body to move the toilets somewhere else, as they cause great inconvenience to the students, who have to walk right past it every day to get to the school gate. However, the PMC is yet to take any action, and even the local corporator – a woman – has failed to show any sensitivity in handling the issue.