Kolkata Indian Railways and Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) will join hands to equip the railway coaches with environment
friendly toilets.
A total number of 1563 bio-toilets have been installed in
coaches up to March 2013 for field trials.
Indian Railways is aiming to fit all its coaches with the
bio-toilets, though there is no fixed time frame by when the job will be done
as “deployment cannot be forecast with reasonable accuracy as it will depend
upon the changes/modifications necessitated from time to time based on the
feedback on its performance, outcome of the fitment trials, exigency of their
usage pattern and other service conditions.”
It has planned that all the new coaches will be fitted with
bio-toilets from 2016-17 onward.
It also claims that if all goes well the entire fleet of
passenger coaches will be fitted with
environment friendly bio-toilets by
2021-22.
another ray of hope for the'aam aadmi'...but this 'time frame' is becoming a very dicey thing as far as the functinality of our government is concerned...they just do not value time...
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