Hyderabad: There are more bus stops in the Cyberabad area managed by Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Limited than toilets.
The civic wing of the TSIIC, Industrial Area Local Authority (IALA), has not installed even one toilet in the industrial corridor.
IALA currently maintains roads, street lights, storm water drains, greenery, central medians and bus stops. The corridor has about 15 bus stops, some of them even air-conditioned.
Several cab drivers do trips in the industrial corridor and not all of them work for companies. A cab driver, Manikanta Kumar, said, “We work at odd-hours and remain outdoors often. There are times when we need to use lavatories but there are very few here. It would be really good if the authorities build toilets close to the IT companies.”
Several techies use TSIIC bus stops and need toilets too. According to a zonal manager of TSIIC, “There isn’t proper sewerage network in this area due to the rocky nature of the terrain. So the toilets will have to be such that there is zero discharge outside the place. We are open to building 10-15 toilets under the Private Public Partnership (PPP) mode. But we are looking at ‘green toilets’.”
The TSIIC exercises statutory powers and functions of local bodies in the industrial parks falling under municipalities, corporations and gram panchayats.
Any toilets built would be pay-and-use facilities. TSIIC has been following a similar approach with bus stops where land is allocated to the contractor who maintains them while the advertisement hoardings fetch revenue for the civic authority.
