Problems of public toilet in karachi

Note :As the public toilet issue in Karachi is very huge and too difficult to study, it may contain several places like public places, bus stops, van stands, cinema houses, theatre halls, markets, school, colleges, universities, railway stations, airports and so on. But in this report  the Government Hospitals & Bus Stops will be discussed and only few part of public places will be considered. The information in this report will be of 11% from internet & 89% of my own research and meeting with different people who faced this problem...


INTRODUCTION
Public toilets are toilets open to anybody, in public places or in residential areas: typically there will be a charge for each use. Sometimes charging will be monthly: each users pays for a monthly ticket. Mostly users prefer to pay per time use. Users of public toilets will generally feel less ownership other user’s toilets. In
Karachi: 42% of the city’s population is without proper toilet drainage.


NEED FOR AN ACCESSIBILITY OF PUBLIC TOILETS
As Karachi is the highly dense populated city. The city has an estimated population is 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan areas has a population over 18 million. Large number of people daily travels through bus from on corner to the other corner of city. In this regard many people travel with staying at different stations or point. So at different stations of bus stops or lateral traveling point of common people which are usually traveled through bus or by walk, sometimes people needs toilet for their ease. In Karachi many bus stops needed toilets or a place where the human consumption rate is rarely high.
In the same manner Government Hospitals also required a lot of care of toilets in their respective departments, in order to facilitate the doctors, patient and the people who care their patients.


Public Places is also another main factor where the need of public toilets is usually high, like amusement parks, gardens, museums, towers, shopping malls, spiritual places etc. The description of the above topics will be given below with several reference context, in which it will be discussed there lack ness in the e city, importance, rehabilitation and suggestions.

IMPORTANCE
People commuting different areas of city & staying at different points, visiting & circulates to their desire places need restrooms. For the sake of people easiness, toilet must be available at different to facilitate the peoples.
The following places needed immediately action from the concerned government departments for having public toilets.
These places will be discussed in this report are as follows:

Gul bahao organization and its Chandni ghar

Gul bahao Organization :
Gul bahao Launched in 1994 .The concept of Gul Bahao stems from two incidents in Ms Nargis Latif’s life. Following the birth of her third child, Nargis suffered immense trauma and illness and she vowed that if God relieved her of her misery, she would take a keener interest in social work. A few years later, when Ms Nargis had fully recovered and resumed normal life, she got into an argument with a garbage cleaner beneath her apartment who insisted on burning trash in a dumpsite outside her flat. Livid at why the trash had to be burned instead of disposed off in a more appropriate manner, Nargis was determined to find alternate solutions for the pestilent problem. Learning that the cost of clearing up a single garbage site was pretty steep (Rs 4,000 back then), the young Nargis took to scouring libraries for better options and eventually came to the realization that facilitating garbage disposal was not just a day’s work; it entailed a lifetime of commitment. According to Ms. Nargis : “ I realised I would have to sacrifice a cosy, comfortable family life for it “

Who is Nargis Latif ?
Born and raised in a lower middle class family, Nargis initially pursued a career in journalism. During ten years of work in that field, however, she became increasingly convinced that waste disposal problems in Karachi were assuming critical proportions and not receiving the attention that they deserved. Accordingly, in spite of resistance from her family, she decided to abandon her journalistic pursuits and devote her full energies to the search for creative and effective ways of addressing waste disposal needs. Now in her mid-forties and married with three children, Nargis has pursued her work in the waste disposal and environmental awareness fields with very limited financial support. Apart from the proceeds of commercial advertising banners in her dry trash stalls, she has developed the ventures described above as a labor of love. She regards herself, in fact, as an independent researcher engaged in a continuing search for new and better ways to convert waste and garbage into useful economic commodities. And Now She is the head of Karachi based NGO Gul Bahao for over a decade now Nargis Latif has developed a campaign to help solve the staggering waste disposal problems of the city of Karachi and to encourage broad adoption of environmentally and socially responsible waste disposal practices. The core of her initiative is an imaginative recycling program that is carefully attuned to the city's economic and social conditions.

Problems of U-turns in karachi

INTRODUCTION

What is u-turn and why they are provided?

A U-turn in driving refers to performing a 180 degree rotation to reverse the direction of travel or the turning of a vehicle in a U-shaped course so as to face in the opposite direction. It is called a "U-turn" because the maneuver looks like the letter U.  In some areas, the maneuver is illegal, while in others it is treated as a more ordinary turn, merely extended. In still other areas lanes are occasionally marked "U-Turn only”.

In Karachi u-turns of different designs can be seen mostly on every road. The construction of these u turns on many roads of the city was aimed at providing convenience to motorists and citizens while traveling on long corridor but many people are facing problems due to u-turns. 

Advantages of u-turns:

The purpose of the construction of u-turns was to provide convenience for the drivers and for the smooth flow of traffic so that people reach their destination easily while traveling on signal free corridors. Some of the advantages of modern u-turns (separated lane u-turns) are as below:

·          1.  Easy travelling for the motorists and citizens without any interruption which was present  before the construction of separate lane u-turns.

·           2.  Increases queuing space for left-turning vehicles.

·           3. Save travel time

·          4. Free flow of the traffic (if there is no blockage)

       

        

       PROBLEMS DUE TO U-TURNS

There are many problems we are facing in our daily life during travelling from one place to another due to bad design and unplanned u-turns. For example effect of u-turn on the flow of traffic, traffic congestion and wrong way driving