Days after the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) issued notice to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner over the usage of acid for cleaning purposes at a civic body-run toilet, the corporation issued an order prohibiting the use of acid.
Earlier on April 4, the DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal inspected an MCD female toilet opposite GB Pant Hospital, gate No. 8, Daryaganj and found a 50-litre canister containing acid kept in the open inside the toilet.
Upon enquiry, the Commission was informed by the Safai Karamchari as well as a staff of the agency - Shri Ram Institute of Rural Development (who has been given the contract by the MCD for maintaining and operating the toilet complex), that they purchase acid every month to clean the toilets.
