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South Eastern Railway To Install Bio-Toilets In More Than 1800 Train Coaches In The Current Financial Year
“ Bio-Toilet project” of Indian Railways is an innovative & indigenous development of technology. This technology is first of its kind being used by any railroad in the world for o n- board accelerated digestion of human waste. These bio-toilets are fitted underneath the lavatories and the human waste discharged into them is acted upon by a colony of anaerobic bacteria that convert human waste mainly into water and small amount of bio-gases. The gases escape into atmosphere and waste water is discharged after chlorination o nto the track. Human waste, thus, does not fall o n the railway tracks thus improving cleanliness and hygiene at platforms, and facilitate track and coaches maintenance staff to perform their work more efficiently. The Bio-toilet project is very much aligned with‘ Swachh Bharat Mission’, launched by Hon’ ble Prime Minister of India.
The technology for Bio-toilets has been innovated, designed and is‘ Made in India’. It has been developed jointly by Indian Railways’ Engineers & DRDO’ s scientists. It is o ne example where the technology developed for defence applications has been utilised for civilian purpose. Adaption and large scale deploymentof the technology has been facilitated by
collaboration between DRDO, RDSO and the field units of Indian Railways.
SER’ s initiative in Bio-Toilets:
With a view to provide clean and hygienic environment to the passengers, South Eastern Railway is taking a major initiative in installation of Bio-Toilets in coaches of trains. In the current financial year( 2018-19), South Eastern Railway has taken a target of installing Bio-Toilets in 1846 coaches of mail / express trains. During the last financial year, 473 coaches of South Eastern Railway were fitted with Bio-Toilets.
Cabinet Approves Development of Infra Components for Integrated Multi-Modal Logistics Hub in Haryana
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs( CCEA) approved the development of trunk infrastructure components for the integrated multi-modal logistics hub known as Freight Village at Nangal Chaudhary in Haryana under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project, a statement said.
The trunk infrastructure components include roads and services, building complex, water, sewage and common effluent treatment plant.
More Information:
• The development of the Freight Village in Haryana will be on a 886.78 acres of land plot which will be implemented by the project Special Purpose Vehicle( SPV) in 2 phases.
• The statement said, a financial sanction of Rs 1029.49 crore for development of Phase-I and in-principle approval for development of Phase-II of the project has also been given by the CCEA.
• It said, expenditure on Phase-I comprises cost of entire land at Rs 266 crore including cost of the land to be used for development of Phase II. www. railanalysis. com
Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor:
• The $ 100-billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, conceived in 2006 by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a global manufacturing & investment destination, by utilising the high capacity 1,483 kilometer long Western Dedicated Freight Corridor( DFC), as the backbone, was supposed to be ready by 2017.