The Local Self-Government department has decided to hand over the running and maintenance of the ‘Take-a-break’ public toilet and refreshment centres along Kerala’s highways and other major roads to Kudumbashree.
Currently, local bodies choose contractors for this purpose. However, with some of the existing centres not fulfilling all the purposes for which they were set up, the department has decided to have a more organised arrangement for running the centres.
Currently, 841 ‘Take-a-break’ centres are functioning across the State, while work on 175 others have been completed, with power and water connections remain to be provided. These are expected to be opened by August 15, taking the total number of such centres across the State to 1,000. In addition, the work on 388 more are progressing. By January 1, a total of 1,722 ‘Take-a-break’ centres are expected to be completed.
