Urbanisation has a close association with growth of slums. Sanitation is a serious concern with slum areas with prevalence of unhygienic practices and open defecation. Integrated low cost sanitation scheme is an intervention intended to provide and construct toilets to cover economically weaker sections to do away with the problem of open defection. The scheme has an upper financial ceiling of Rs. 10,000/- per household shared by Central and State Government on ¾th and ¼ basis. The households have reported cleaning their toilets fairly regular. However, variation in cleaning and maintenance of toilets exist mostly on daily and weekly cleaning status. The quality of construction is a major issue where most of the households expressed concern. About 2/3rd of the beneficiary respondents were self motivated to use toilet through various awareness programmes. Water supply, electrification, direct benefit transfer, size and maintenance are the issues need improvement as agreed by most of the respondents. Toilets are great relief for women and children. Women feel dignified using the toilets and children find it convenient to use it to save time for study. It has equally contributed to lower occurrence of diseases and improved the overall sanitation of the locality on sustainable basis towards achieving the noble objective of making the local body, block, district and state open defecation free
