Shiv Krupa Society

Each house in Shiv Krupa Society - a self-built settlement that is nearly 60 years old - is roughly the same size (about 15 square metres) and typically two to three stories tall, built of brick walls and steel sections. Sitting on government land and with improvements made as part of the World Bank-sponsored Slum Sanitation Programme (SSP), almost every house in this settlement has its own private toilet connected to the city's main sewer line. However, since the guidelines of the programme only allowed for toilets to be constructed on the ground floor, over time, units that have been constructed on higher floors have had to either build their own toilets or use public toilets built by the municipal corporation.