Uber partners with NGO Sulabh to direct drivers in nine cities to cleaner toilets

Uber announced connected Thursday (November 20, 2025) that it was partnering with Sulabh International to supply escaped entree to the nationalist sanitation non-profit’s toilets. The concern is successful unit successful 9 cities, and an Uber enforcement said, portion announcing the pact, that it whitethorn beryllium expanded to different cities arsenic well.

“The concern volition alteration Uber drivers to usage Sulabh operated nationalist toilets escaped of complaint crossed 9 cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kolkata, and Ahmedabad,” the ridesharing steadfast said successful a statement. The steadfast made the announcement during the World Toilet Summit, being hosted successful India by Sulabh.

Sulabh’s toilets, specified arsenic those successful metro stations successful the National Capital Region, typically complaint a nominal interest for entry, which volition not beryllium charged to Uber drivers, the institution said.

Amit Deshpande, Uber’s metropolis operations caput for India and South Asia, said that the determination was an effort to “improve mundane enactment conditions for drivers”.

Sulabh has implicit 10,000 “pay and use” toilets successful India; respective of the Delhi Metro network’s stations are equipped with Sulabh toilets.