HYDERABAD:
Old RTC buses
being converted to bio toilets for exclusive use of women will be pink in colour. The colour of the seven buses that were introduced in Khammam on July 21 by
transport minister Puvvada Ajay
was changed from green to pink on Thursday. This follows instructions from municipal administration minister K T Rama Rao that all bio toilets should have a uniform colour and that is to be pink. ‘
She mobile bio toilets
’ have been introduced in Khammam and Kosgi of Narayanapet district.
More old RTC buses will be converted into toilets. The toilets have an Indian toilet and western commode, water facility, wash basin, sanitary pad dispenser machine, mirror, a place where women can breastfeed babies, and sanitisers.
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Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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