A toast to good health!

  INTRODUCTION We are well aware of the fact that public toilets have always been a point of discussion in India ever since we gained Independence. The common adjectives that come to our minds while thinking of Indian public toilets are unclean, filthy, dirty, disgusting, sloppy. Let alone the rural areas, even the metropolitan cities of our country do not provide a safe and clean public washroom at every level. Although efforts have been made but we still have a long way to go! While both the men’s and women’s facilities tend to be untidy, the process is distinctly unhealthy, unsafe, and strenuous particularly for women due to prompt intimate physical contact with the facilities.                    LACK OF ACCESS TO TOILETS FOR FEMALES India, the world’s second-largest country by population, has the highest number of people (732 million) without access to toilets, according to a news report. The report by WaterAid, titled  Out Of Order: The State of the World’s Toilets 2017 , further