New Delhi: Taking a step towards making India cleaner, Minister of Urban Development (MoUD) M Venkaiah Naidu yesterday launched a Google Map toilet locator to help people find access to clean public restrooms.
The app, designed by Google, will make information available through a mobile application about thousands of public toilets throughout two locations now -- Delhi NCR and Madhya Pradesh.
Naidu at the launch said that 504 cities and towns, which also include four million-plus cities, have achieved the status of being free of open defecation, and a total of 739 cities and towns have committed themselves to achieve the status by March next year.
He said that Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Sikkim have declared all cities and towns Open Defecation Free (ODF), while Kerala is set to become ODF by March 2018.
The app will have listings covering Delhi NCR, including Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Noida and Faridabad, and Bhopal and Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Toilets can be located not just through the app, but on the desktop as well.
