Site & Land Approvals

Project Sammaan’s initial pilot phase in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack involves the construction of 100+ separate community and public sanitation facilities. Some of these facilities will replace existing, non-functional toilet blocks on the land these failed facilities currently occupy, whereas others will be built on new land allocated by the municipal corporations for use in the project.

Irrespective of this, every site requires vetting to ensure it complies not only with building codes but also within parameters set by the project itself. In order to arrive at the final list of sites, nearly twice as many proposed areas as will be built on needed to be documented and evaluated.

Feedback Foundation has been the lead agency in conducting the site surveys, including photo-coding of each, collecting, compiling and analyzing land details, and interfacing with the municipal corporations for additional sites that require evaluation.

CTRAN has also played an active role in this approval process by interacting and establishing a liaison with officials in BMC and CMC to consolidate a contact base for the project. They have been instrumental in facilitating site selection by compiling lists of sites born out of constant interactions with various government representatives. They’ve also facilitated site visits and collected site specific details, while drafting NOC letters to different departments (e.g., Irrigation and R&B Department).