Such has been the “level of neglect” that municipal officials could not provide the exact figure of the number of women’s toilets maintained by them.

While a senior MCD official just said that women’s toilets were “very few” in number, MCD Standing Committee Chairman Vijender Gupta placed the number at 130 out of a total of about 3,200 toilets.

The project is listed on the first-time special project fund escrow account that is under the overall charge of Additional Commissioner (engineering) Naresh Kumar.

Talking to Newsline, Department of Environment Management and Services director-in-chief Anil Prakash said officials surveying various sites across the city to identify possible locations.

The next step, Prakash says, is to select a suitable design for the toilets.