bandh road_santa cruz_mumbai

Bandh Road, Santa Cruz - Mumbai Community Composition: Heterogeneous. General Description: The slum on Bandh Road extends along stretch of land that is surrounded by a sewage channel on three sides. There are smaller slums (almost island-like in nature, especially during the rains) on the two sides of the main slum. Most of the houses in the slum are connected through dark dingy alley-ways, and there is haphazard construction on top of each house that is accessible only by ladders. Most of the people who live in theisarea are either laborers/ vendors or mechanics/workers, etc. Sanitation Situation: There are a lot of toilets built by the MHADA (almost 8-10 of them) in the community. 5 or 6 of them are along the banks of the sewer and the rest are inside the community. While the peripheral community toilets all drain out into the sewage channel, the ones inside the community have been broken down and connected to a sewage pipeline via a chamber. Only one of the toilets has a caretaker - Majid Sheikh (from Calcutta) who has been working/living near the toilet for the past few years. He was given the maintenance responsibility by the previous local counsellor but has stuck to the job till date. Top Reasons to Choose This Location/Unique Aspects: 1. Large slum settlement with an interesting environment around it. 2. The residents are unhappy with the toilets that have been connected to the sewage pipeline as it goes on an upwards slope. During rainy season when the chamber overflows with water, the drain water mixes with it and flows back into the homes near the toilets. The residents there prefer that the toilets drain downwards into the open sewer channel rather than into their homes w/o realising how unhealthy and unhygienic it is. 3. Interesting toilet caretaker - wants to help out the residents and had his own suggestion for intervention in matters of toilet design and containment. “Aap kisiko jante ho, jo mujhe iss basti ke liye toilet thik karne mein madad karega?” - Majid Shiekh 4. Most of the toilets built in the area by MHADA date around 10-15 years and only a few of them have been overhauled while the others are being used as is. 5. The surrounding smaller slums of Koliwada, etc. are accessible only by a raft and not by land.

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Bandh Road, Santa Cruz - Mumbai

Community Composition: Heterogeneous. General Description: The slum on Bandh Road extends along stretch of land that is surrounded by a sewage channel on three sides. There are smaller slums (almost island-like in nature, especially during the rains) on the two sides of the main slum. Most of the houses in the slum are connected through dark dingy alley-ways, and there is haphazard construction on top of each house that is accessible only by ladders. Most of the people who live in theisarea are either laborers/vendors or mechanics/workers, etc. Sanitation Situation: There are a lot of toilets built by the MHADA (almost 8-10 of them) in the community. 5 or 6 of them are along the banks of the sewer and the rest are inside the community. While the peripheral community toilets all drain out into the sewage channel, the ones inside the community have been broken down and connected to a sewage pipeline via a chamber. Only one of the toilets has a caretaker - Majid Sheikh (from Calcutta) who has been working/living near the toilet for the past few years. He was given the maintenance responsibility by the previous local counsellor but has stuck to the job till date. Top Reasons to Choose This Location/Unique Aspects:1. Large slum settlement with an interesting environment around it.2. The residents are unhappy with the toilets that have been connected to the sewage pipeline as it goes on an upwards slope. During rainy season when the chamber overflows with water, the drain water mixes with it and flows back into the homes near the toilets. The residents there prefer that the toilets drain downwards into the open sewer channel rather than into their homes w/o realising how unhealthy and unhygienic it is.3. Interesting toilet caretaker - wants to help out the residents and had his own suggestion for intervention in matters of toilet design and containment. “Aap kisiko jante ho, jo mujhe iss basti ke liye toilet thik karne mein madad karega?” - Majid Shiekh4. Most of the toilets built in the area by MHADA date around 10-15 years and only a few of them have been overhauled while the others are being used as is.5. The surrounding smaller slums of Koliwada, etc. are accessible only by a raft and not by land.