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Train toilets to be replaced only by 2021
Train toilets to be replaced only by 2021.It will take, by the government’s own admission, up to 2021-22 to replace all existing toilets on Indian trains.
It will take, by the government’s own admission, up to 2021-22 to replace all existing toilets on Indian trains.Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said one of his priorities was to install 17,000 modern “bio-toilets“, which use bacteria to convert excreta into gases–released into the atmosphere–and treated and chlorinated water.
The biggest hygiene hurdle on the Indian Railways are the primitive toilets that discharge waste directly on to tracks, corroding them and stinking up stations and railways corridors. The railways have already replaced 17,388 existing toilets with bio-toilets over the last three years, spending more than Rs 101 crore.
It could cost Rs 3,702 crore ($600 million) to entirely replace the primitive toilets on India’s trains. A total of 12,617 trains run on Indian tracks every day, carrying more than 23 million passengers in 63,870 coaches. The Railways also allowed 100% foreign investment in installation of bio-toilets.
