IIT Bombay stops handsoap for students due to budget cuts

Budget cuts have forced IIT Bombay to stop providing for toilet handwash for its students and also reduce the frequency of cleaning hostel rooms and even toilets. As per latest directives, hostel rooms would be cleaned once a month, instead of every week.
Similarly, cleaning of floors, staircases, corridors, foyers, dining hall and TV rooms would be done bi-monthly, instead of every month.
And toilets, bathrooms, urinals and washbasins would be scrubbed twice a day instead of thrice.
These changes have been introduced from October.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 2 November 2016.

It seems IIT Bombay has amended service contracts of public health officers. Not providing hand-wash to each of the two blocks will help save Rs 60,000 per month. And not cleaning the hostel room every week would save Rs 1.57 lakh a month per block.
Incidentally, soap is now being made available from the hostel fund which is a corpus together from the Rs 220 monthly contribution from students. Earlier, this money used to be spent on expenses that hostels would like to undertake like purchasing a microwave. But, in view of the current changes, part of this corpus goes towards buying toilet handwash.


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