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The Right To Pee (RTP) campaign advocates for free, clean and safe public urinals for women, initiated at Mumbai (MH) India, but has caught the imagination of many working in the field of gender sensitisation and equity. The campaign has brought into focus a fundamental neglected on not-thought-of issue into the centre of discussion. The United Nations in its 2014 report has brought out a “tragic irony” that there were more mobile phones per 100 people in India than toilets.
According to the 2011 census, there were 57,41,632 women living in Mumbai, and the city had just 381 public toilets. The statistics boils down to one public toilet for about 18,000 women, on the other hand in stark contrast there are 6568 toilets and 2849 urinals in Mumbai for the male population.