MECHANISED WASHING OF TRAIN COACHES
Procurement of five
automatic coaches washing plants is under process in the Ministry
of Railways to provide for mechanised washing of train coaches.
Meanwhile, Hazrat
Nizamuddin Railway Station is the first station wherein concerted
efforts have been initiated to make it a model station for cleanliness.
This will be followed by New Delhi and Old Delhi stations.
Other railway
stations to be brought within the ambit of new initiatives will
be Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on Central Railway, Mumbai, Howrah
on Eastern Railway, Kolkata, Patna on East Central Railway, Hajipur,
Gorakhpur on North Eastern Railway, Guwahati on Northeast Frontier
Railway, Jaipur on North Western Railway, Chennai Central on Southern
Railway, Secunderabad on South Central Railway, Ranchi on South
Eastern Railway and Mumbai Central on Western Railway.
The Ministry
of Railways has also directed Zonal Railway to impose fines on
nuisance makers as a part of strategy to improve cleanliness,
which would work as a deterrent.
