The civic body has put sanitation in cold storage in the name of Covid-19 if one were to go by its record on building community toilets. As per a report by Praja Foundation, the BMC did not construct a single such toilet in 2020. The apathy over ablutions comes at a time when about 42 per cent households in the city do not have a toilet on their premises and over 94 per cent of them depend on community lavatories.

As per data collected by Praja, an organisation focussed on enabling accountable governance, through Right to Information, the BMC cleared proposals worth Rs 422 crore in January 2019 for 22,774 toilets with a target to build them in a year. However, it managed to construct about 20 per cent of them after two years.