Want a toilet at the Metro station? Don’t ask us: court

The Delhi high court has dismissed a petition seeking direction to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and the Delhi government to provide drinking water and toilet facilities to Metro commuters.

Want a toilet at the Metro station? Don't ask us: court

The Delhi high court has dismissed a petition seeking direction to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and the Delhi government to provide drinking water and toilet facilities to Metro commuters.

MiD DAY had recently reported that roads running parallel to the Indraprastha-Dwarka Metro line double up as public urinals and harried residents have put up idols and slogans for preventing people from peeing on the walls of their colonies.

The court, however, asked the petitioner to file his representation before the DMRC if he had any specific grievances. The DMRC was asked to consider the issue.

The PIL, filed by an NGO, Voice of India, stated that in December 2007 the organisation had sent a representation to the Delhi government and the DMRC seeking basic facilities on Metro trains but got no satisfactory reply from them.

According to NGO president Dhanesh Ieshdhan, even the trains don't have adequate toilet facilities or drinking water facilities.

Seeking the DMRC to provide these facilities within two months, the petitioner alleged that the Corporation had failed to make special sitting arrangements for senior citizens as well.

The NGO also raised questions over the security at Metro stations stating that "there is absence of baggage screening or scanning machines, the metal detecting wooden-frames through which a traveller passes before reaching a platform are also defective."
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The petitioner also sought the court to constitute a committee in the form of a nodal agency to look into the necessary facilities to be provided to commuters on Metro.

- (With inputs from agencies)

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