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The Alliance is currently involved with a number of projects aimed at ensuring adequate access to sanitation facilities throughout India. In the past five years, the Alliance has renovated or built over 800 community toilets, for a total of over 16,000 additional seats. Examples of recent and ongoing projects are listed below |
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The Alliance’s first sanitation breakthrough came in 1998, when the city of Pune invited the Alliance to construct community toilet blocks. Out of this dialogue, a plan emerged to provide complete sanitation cover for Pune over a period of five years, to be implemented in three stages, with resources coming from Pune’s municipal funds. These are now maintained by community caretakers and supervised by the Pune Mahila Milan Toilet Committee, and the Alliance has continued to work with the Pune Municipal Corporation on subsequent sanitation projects. |
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The Pune demonstration also helped the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) begin its slum sanitation program under the World Bank-assisted Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project (MSDP). In 2001, the Alliance won tenders for constructing 200 toilet blocks with 4000 toilet seats, benefiting at least 200,000 people, under the first phase of MSDP, and in the second phase, the Alliance will construct 150 toilet blocks benefiting over 150,000 people. |
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Between 1986 and 1996, the Alliance constructed 60 community toilet blocks in Mumbai, Pune, Kanpur and other Indian cities. This work evolved into the Zero Open Defecation campaign that the Alliance is promoting across the country. Based on the Alliance's work, a National Task Force for Sanitation was created in 2005 to promote the Zero Open Defecation campaign nationwide. |
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As peer exchanges have given Alliance leaders from dozens of cities the opportunity to see the toilets built in Mumbai and Pune, more and more communities have begun to work with municipal officials to build community toilets. Large-scale sanitation projects are currently underway in Pimpri-Chinchwad, Maharashtra and Tirupur, Tamil Nadu. |
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