Bandra’s Anjuman Islam Dr Mohammed Ishaq Jamkhanawala Girls High School and Junior College was recently gifted 39 toilets for its 2,600 students.
According to a Times of India report, the premises earlier had three toilets to meet the needs of the students. Girls would be afraid to drink water in case they had to use one of the toilets, which were poorly maintained and smelled all the time.
The new toilets were built by NGO Yuva Unstoppable and Zafar Sareshwala’s education movement Taalim O Tarbiyat and the toilets were inaugurated by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Union minister for minority affairs on Saturday.
Naqvi, who was in the city on Friday to inaugurate the toilets as well as drinking water facilities at the school, said toilets help stem dropout rate among girl students. He added his government was committed to empowering minorities with Three Es—education, employment and empowerment—and three Ts—teachers, toilets and tiffins. “Last year, my ministry gave Rs 1.7 crore in scholarships, 60% of which went to girls. Our Begum Hazrat Mahal scholarship is 100% for girls. Minority girls and women should take benefit of scholarships and skill development schemes,” said Naqvi while speaking to the daily.
There have been several heartwarming stories of building toilets. Recently a Pune man was profiled because he makes toilets out of thermocol with cement coating, in two hours. "We also give these as wedding gift to girls who don't have the capacity to build toilets, and have given it to 25 girls till now," Mane had told ANI.
His toilets are supplied all over the country. He has supplied over 22,000 toilets all over the country.
The business of building toilets is run on no loss, no profit basis, and Mane has even been awarded various awards by different organisations and governments for his innovation, including the India CSR's with Sanitation leadership award 2016.
