<p class="title">Bio-toilet in train clogged? Don't bother about complaining to railway staff to clean it. The Indian Railways has developed a system which will automatically alert the nearest depot or on-board cleaning staff.</p>.<p class="title">The sensor will be installed in all toilets in the coaches. Whenever the toilets get clogged, the sensor will send an alert message to the on-board cleaning staff as well as nearest the railway depot. This will help them clean it at the earliest, said an official in the Railways.</p>.<p class="title">Started as a pilot project, the new system will be installed in only a few coaches and depending upon success, it will be installed in train coaches, said the official.</p>.<p class="title">The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)m in a report in December 2017 had found that almost two lakh complaints regarding clogged, smelly and non-functional bio-toilets in trains were received from public in 2016-17.</p>.<p class="title">The Indian Railways is the first organisation in the world to install bio-toilet on such a massive scale and so far over 62,000 coaches have already been fitted with bio-toilets.</p>.<p class="title">The national transporter, has, however, found it a tough task to keep coaches clean with the toilets choked with litter, plastic bottles, sanitary napkins, and other inorganic waste.</p>.<p class="title">The railways have also installed extra dustbins inside toilets and coaches and also sought support from users to solve this problem.</p>.<p class="title">“We have put dustbins in all toilets — where people can throw paper or sanitary napkins. Four dustbins in toilets of each coach. The janitors — part of onboard housekeeping outsourced staff — will be periodically cleaning the dustbins,” said Rajesh Agrawal, Member (Rolling Stock) Railway Board, said.</p>
<p class="title">Bio-toilet in train clogged? Don't bother about complaining to railway staff to clean it. The Indian Railways has developed a system which will automatically alert the nearest depot or on-board cleaning staff.</p>.<p class="title">The sensor will be installed in all toilets in the coaches. Whenever the toilets get clogged, the sensor will send an alert message to the on-board cleaning staff as well as nearest the railway depot. This will help them clean it at the earliest, said an official in the Railways.</p>.<p class="title">Started as a pilot project, the new system will be installed in only a few coaches and depending upon success, it will be installed in train coaches, said the official.</p>.<p class="title">The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)m in a report in December 2017 had found that almost two lakh complaints regarding clogged, smelly and non-functional bio-toilets in trains were received from public in 2016-17.</p>.<p class="title">The Indian Railways is the first organisation in the world to install bio-toilet on such a massive scale and so far over 62,000 coaches have already been fitted with bio-toilets.</p>.<p class="title">The national transporter, has, however, found it a tough task to keep coaches clean with the toilets choked with litter, plastic bottles, sanitary napkins, and other inorganic waste.</p>.<p class="title">The railways have also installed extra dustbins inside toilets and coaches and also sought support from users to solve this problem.</p>.<p class="title">“We have put dustbins in all toilets — where people can throw paper or sanitary napkins. Four dustbins in toilets of each coach. The janitors — part of onboard housekeeping outsourced staff — will be periodically cleaning the dustbins,” said Rajesh Agrawal, Member (Rolling Stock) Railway Board, said.</p>
