Seven petrol pumps and 31 hotels along important roads in Maharashtra’s Latur district will face action for failing to provide separate toilets for women, an official said.

Following a representation by a women’s organisation to Collector Prithviraj BP, the district administration had ordered an inspection of such establishments along prominent roads, the official said.

It is mandatory to have separate, well-maintained toilets for women at petrol pumps and hotels on major roads in the district, said the official.?Officials inspected 81 hotels and 56 petrol pumps of which 31 eateries and 7 fuel stations were found either with no toilets for women or with toilets in unhygienic condition, he added.