{"id":20531,"date":"2014-09-19T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=20531"},"modified":"2014-09-19T21:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:48:46","slug":"modern-restrooms-at-trivandrum-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/modern-restrooms-at-trivandrum-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern restrooms to come up on Trivandrum City Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong><\/em> Soon restrooms modelled on the likes of foreign zoos will come up at the Trivandrum city zoo as the authorities are seeking private investment to upgrade the facilities at the campus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Trivandrum Museum to get Japanese technology for waste disposal\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-museum-to-get-japanese-technology-for-waste-disposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum Museum to get Japanese technology for waste disposal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Restrooms with modern facilities will be constructed on the zoo premises and the company would be establishing the facility as part of its corporate social responsibility. This is the first time that Zoo authorities are partnering with a private firm.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are looking for a radical change in the concept of toilets. New restrooms, modelled on those set up in foreign parks and zoos will be emulated,&#8221; said B Joseph, zoo director to TOI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the plan, a new modern building with individual restrooms for men and women would come up on the premises. There will also be unisex toilet cubicles, with provision for freshening up babies. Air-conditioning facility will be ensured. The restrooms will also have water-treating facility and the treated water will be used for watering the plants.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Beware, CCTV cameras at City Zoo and Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/cctv-cameras-at-city-zoo-and-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beware, CCTV cameras at City Zoo and Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently only two toilets, including an e-toilet, are functional on the 54-acre zoo campus and the new restrooms will meet the huge rush to the zoo.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Trivandrum zoo to be equipped with \u2018walkie-talkies\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-zoo-to-be-equipped-with-walkie-talkies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum zoo to be equipped with \u2018walkie-talkies\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Trivandrum Zoo to get surveillance cameras\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/trivandrum-zoo-to-get-surveillance-cameras\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trivandrum Zoo to get surveillance cameras<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The number of visitors to city zoo has increased many folds during the Onam holidays. The daily ticket sales from the zoo were between Rs 10 lakh to 19 lakh during the festival season.\u00a0 Ever since the arrival of anacondas the revenue has been steadily increasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: Soon restrooms modelled on the likes of foreign zoos will come up at the Trivandrum city zoo as the authorities are seeking private investment to upgrade the facilities at the campus. Trivandrum Museum to get Japanese technology for waste disposal Restrooms with modern facilities will be constructed on the zoo premises and the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-20531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}