For the citizens of Gujarat, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu delivered an ideal gift by announcing to make 2 networks into green corridors. The 175-km long line, which is divided into 2 divisions, was made human discharge free networks in the light of Swachh Bharat Mission. The 2 networks namely- The 141-km-long Okha-Kanalus line and the connected 34-km-long Porbandar-Wansjaliya line are the beneficiaries in the western part of India.
These networks in Gujarat will now function as green train corridors and all trains travelling on this network will now be well equipped with bio-toilets. There are about 29 trains going through this line, barring the seasonal ones. The trains consist of approximately 700 coaches and all of them are catered with bio-toilets. This step forward will not only thwart open discharge on the railway track but will also increase the standard of sanity and cleanliness that lacks a lot in Indian railway coaches.
The impetus to have more and more bio-toilets came after the tremendous success that these green corridors garnered at various places in India. The 114-km long Rameswaram-Manamadurai line in Tamil Nadu was the first to be made a human discharge-free railway corridor and in accordance to that, as many as 10 passenger trains having an approximate number of 286 coaches in them that travelled through this network have bio-toilets provided in them.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has been keen on making arrangements for bio-toilets right from the outset and has asked authorities to pay heed at the manufacturing phase of coaches. Though he has shed some light and indicated that replacing the old toilets that discharged openly with the new bio-toilets won’t be an easy task at all. But, he also handed out faith on the people responsible and involved in making this possible by claiming that concerned railway employees have urbanized the modus operandi to make the difficult process easier than it actually looks.
With a prerequisite of bio-toilets in all the ensuing coaches of a particular line or network, human discharge waste from trains that is thrown onto the tracks will completely impede which will in turn assist in humanizing the hygiene and sanitation of railway tracks and the rail itself.
The efforts put up by the Railways speak for them in form of numbers. Indian Railways have by now laid out approximately 48,000 bio-toilets in almost 14,000 passenger coaches. In the current epoch, the ensuing economic annum, 14,000 bio-toilets have by now been installed in a number of coaches and it is intended to install a supplementary of 16,000 more bio-toilets in railway coaches in the coming term of the year 2016 that has been great in Railway’s perspective.