A toilet that doesn’t require a sewerage system

The toilet can be constructed at hilltops, glaciers, in villages and on riverbanks.

Pledging to provide toilets in every household of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated an eco-friendly public toilet in front of Valmiki Sadan, one of the venues from where the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched.

The bio-digester toilet is going to change the face of rural and urban India, Mukesh Sakhuja, MD, Grandeur Business Solutions Pvt Ltd, said of the toilet built with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) technology.

“It is a sustainable and affordable option to open defecation and is able to dispose human waste in 100 per cent eco-friendly manner. It is maintenance free and efficient without depending on conventional energy sources. And, it does not even require any sewage system,” he said. “They don’t require any cleaning or emptying the tank because of its unique systematic structural arrangements.”
Sakhuja said the toilet had been built as an eco-friendly project for the National Building Corporation Ltd promoting the Clean India campaign.

The toilet can be constructed at hilltops, glaciers, in villages and on riverbanks, Col (retd) Girish Mediratta, a director in the company, said.

Aditya Sakhuja, also a director, said 90 per cent of the rural and 30 per cent of the urban population still defecate in the open due to non-availability of adequate toilets. “This is ideal for both urban and rural areas, where the sewerage system does not exist or does not have an effective reach,” he said.

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