After clearing proposals worth Rs 422 in January 2019 for 22,774 toilets across the city, with a deadline of 12 months, the BMC has built merely 20 per cent of them. The project’s aim was to bring down the user-toilet ratio in community toilets. Now the corporation also wants to build an additional 108 public toilets to cater to the needs of the floating public.

Under the Slum Sanitation Plan, the BMC was supposed to build 16,703 toilets on existing 14,173 toilet seats and an additional 6,071 toilets on new locations. After two years, the BMC has built only 4,596 toilets. “Our target is to build 20,301 toilets before December 31, 2021. While 4,596 seats are completed, 15,705 are under construction,” said civic chief Iqbal Singh Chahal.