Lekshmi Priya S

What makes the unmanned toilet a standout is its fully automated pre-flushing and flushing system along with modular features like a sanitary napkin vending machine and a napkin incinerator.

According to WR chief public relations officer Ravinder Bhakar, the new system enables transparency and feedback from the commuters will be rendered utmost priority.

Apart from cost of the electricity being 85 per cent lesser in comparison to petrol or diesel consumption, even the rental charges of an electric car is almost ten per cent lower than that of a regular petrol or diesel vehicle.

When the men in the villages showed no interest, 22 women joined hands to encourage families in their district to fund the construction of toilets themselves by providing the means.

The application is the brainchild of Swati Humbad, who came up with the revolutionary idea while volunteering at SNEHA, a local non-profit organization that focuses on neonatal and infant health development.

Some of the features include lift operating buttons with information in Braille script at all levels of the station, a tactile strip that will be fixed from the street level till the edge of the platform to aid the visually impaired navigate their way and specially designed ticket vending machines to help the speech impaired folks.

Focussing on ‘late bloomers’, the initiative works in close collaboration with local government schools and incorporates various unconventional teaching methodologies to push even the late learners into the mainstream.

Baby Fathima Laiba was admitted to Kannur Pariyaram Medical College with a critical heart condition and with her health deteriorating, it was decided to shift her to Sri Chitra Institute in Thiruvananthapuram.

The venture follows the principles of a circular economy and entails locally sourced, socially inclusive and environmental-friendly solutions for all the event requirements.

While the app only takes 10 megabytes (MB) of space in the phone, the database of suspects is stored on an external server and is segregated to 16 categories such as theft, burglary, robbery and dacoity in Chennai.