The public toilets constructed at Aarey Milk Colony by MP Sachin Tendulkar are helping the tribals staying there, but the lack of streetlights in the Mataipada area (which has one of the toilets), has increased the chances of a man-animal conflict.

In the past two or three weeks, there have been increased leopard sightings. This is the same location where a leopard was trapped recently. The locals want lights installed there at the earliest. The narrow path to the toilet at Mataipada also leads to Adarsh Nagar, where there is a BEST bus stop. But the path is through a forest patch, which does not have any street lights. A recent report in this paper threw light (pun intended) on the worrying situation and sought facilities for locals.