Bio-toilets for trains

The Indian Railways has announced that its entire fleet of passenger coaches would be equipped with bio-toilets by 2021-22. It has also planned to have all new coaches fitted with bio-toilets from 2016-17 onwards. Minister of State for Railways Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy has said that altogether 7295 bio-tiolets have been installed in 2774 train coaches till December 31, 2013. The ministry is installing indigenously made bio-toilets in all passenger coaches both new and the existing ones.

 

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