Last year, Mumbai was featured as India's 10th cleanest city on the Swachh Bharat rankings, but now it has fallen to the 29th spot on the list. Surveys have found that there is no solution to the city's waste management issue and that the BMC has reportedly been over-enthusiastic in its approach to declare Mumbai open-defecation free (ODF) without adequate infrastructure like public toilets to support it.

There is a strong case for more public toilets in the city, so that we make it truly open defecation free. We see public toilets being built many times and then become inaccessible because of different reasons. A war erupts over them either because of the location or some other matter, while the public is deprived of a much-needed toilet. A concerted drive to up the numbers of this facility is the need of the hour.