bio toilets

Dr Shilpa Narayanan's dad's solution has not only made a #Pune district town free of open defecation, but it also slashed the residents' LPG bills by half. A win-win indeed!

No more human waste on tracks, decides Railways, and brings forward the bio-toilets.

The present bio-toilets have been eliciting quite a lot of complaints regarding their upkeep and poor services and would often end up with a revolting stench and be overflowing with human waste because of the lack of timely maintenance.

The decision was announced at an event titled, "Indian Transport Sector: Marching towards sustainable mobility" at Conference of Parties (COP-23), Indian Pavilion at Bonn, Germany on Tuesday.

In recent years, the Indian government has been pushing to green the country’s vast railway network in a variety of ways.

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is planning to install bio-toilets in some of its long distance buses. It plans to convert waste into manure and sell it to organisations that approach it.

Indian Railways has been plagued by several problems – lack of sanitation, archaic infrastructure, low revenue margins, etc. But, of late, the Railway Ministry, headed by Minister Suresh Prabhu, has taken several concrete steps to solve these issues.

India’s first Green Rail Corridor was inaugurated by Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday. It is the 114 km long Rameswaram-Manamadurai track in Tamil Nadu.

An innovative way to address the issues concerning open defecation in Mumbai, these energy- efficient bio toilets will focus on slum pockets, where people do not have access to basic sanitation.

All you need to know the plans of Indian Railways to set up water recycling plants and bio-toilets.