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Largest Suvidha Centre to be set up by HUL and HSBC with BMC

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NEW DELHI: In collaboration with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) and HSBC India established their 7th and largest Suvidha Centre in Mumbai (BMC).

The facility in Mumbai’s Dharavi neighborhood—one of the world’s most densely inhabited areas—has 111 public toilets and is one of the country’s largest community toilet complexes. 
“Suvidha was built by HUL as an urban community hygiene and sanitation centre to promote community access to hygiene and sanitation facilities’” said Aaditya Thackeray, Minister of Environment, Government of Maharashtra. The Suvidha centres will provide access to water, hygiene, and sanitation (WASH) services to roughly 2,00,000 women, children, men, and people with disabilities in Mumbai every year as part of this project with HSBC India, according to a statement released by the two organisations.

In the villages surrounding the centre, HUL will also coordinate behaviour modification programmes on water, sanitation, nutrition, health, and hygiene. By reusing treated wastewater and gathering rainfall, the centre is expected to save approximately 6.5 million litres of freshwater each year.

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