Hyderabad Becomes Free Of Open Defecation  

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) on Wednesday said that the city has become free of open defecation. The civic body said the corporators of all 150 wards have given an undertaking that their wards are open defecation free.

Under the guidance of Telangana's municipal administration and urban development minister K T Rama Rao, the GHMC took various initiatives to control open defecation, the GHMC statement read.

The civic body constructed individual and community toilets and also provided pre-fabricated ones in slums.

The civic body constructed individual and community toilets and also provided pre-fabricated ones in slums. As a part of the initiative of transforming the city as free of open defecation, the GHMC persuaded about 295 petrol pumps and 390 hotels and restaurant owners to open the toilets at their respective sites for use by the general public.