Toilets, NBC and a Gendered Perspective

Aruna Ramani Grover

International Journal of Architecture and Infrastructure Planning

Toilets, NBC and a Gendered Perspective

Aruna Ramani Grover ✉

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The author examines the issue of embedded patriarchy in the norms and standards recommended by the National Building Code of India 2016 with specific reference to provisions for toilets for some public building selected for listing. It demonstrates how this list is incomplete and the consequences thereof in the public realm. Thereafter by analyzing the provision made for the selected buildings it points to aberrations which have continued over three revisions to the code over a period of 46 years. It concludes by calling for an attitudinal change with toilets being read spaces where humans perform essential and very private body functions to meet differential needs of men and women.

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