City Corporate & Business Plan - Municipal

Chapter ñ 8 Final Report: Ambur Municipality
HHs without Sanitation 5766
Community Facilities Available in all slum
Public Conveniences 12
Total Number of Seats 166
Source: Ambur Municipality
Safe mode of
disposal
Unsafe mode of
disposal
Table 8-8: Classification of modes of sanitary waste disposal by type
Facility by Type Households Percentage Mode
Pit latrine 2077 11.48
Water closet 10,154 56.11
Other latrine 1,186 6.55
No latrine 4,678 25.85
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Voyants Solutions Private Limited
67.59
32.41
Total Households 18,095 100 100
Source: compiled from Household and Housing Amenities Census, Census of India 2001
Other latrine
7%
No latrine
26%
Pit latrine
11%
Water closet
56%
Figure 8-3: Status of Toilet Facility in Ambur Town
Apart from this, municipality is maintaining 14 public toilets in different areas of the
town. However, considering the floating population, there arise a need for provision
of public toilets and Pay and Use toilets especially in the commercial localities and
other public places like bus stand, Auto stand etc.
8.2.3 Issues in Sanitation Sector
Lack of sewerage system and sewage treatment plant.
At present, open storm water drain used for sewerage system and finally itís is disposed
to palar river, without treatment.
Septic tank is the major mode of disposal which may pollute the ground water with
microbial pollution.
Public conveniences are not adequate in the town. At the same time, there has no place
to build the additional public convenience in the municipality limit.
8.2.4 Proposals by the Municipality / TWAD Board
The TWAD board proposed the sewerage scheme at an estimate cost of Rs 3950
Lacs. The detailed proposal and costing from our side are discussed in the chapter
10.
Unsafe
Mode
Safe
Mode