Despite its aim to bring down the users to toilet ratio in community toilets, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued construction orders for only four per cent of the planned new toilets in the past 11 months. Out of the total 24 wards in the city, only eight have witnessed work orders of some kind; 16 wards haven't got any construction orders.

The civic body, under its Slum Sanitation Plan, was supposed to build 16,703 toilets on existing 14,173 toilet seats, and an additional 6,071 toilets on identified, new locations. While proposals worth R422 crore for 22,774 toilets were passed in January, construction orders for only 266 new and 4,973 existing community toilets, which is merely 4 and 30 per cent of the aim, were issued.