Sanitation campaign
The Indian Railways is going to undertake a major cleanliness campaign across 100 stations which have more than 10 lakh population or are destinations of tourist or religious importance. The…
The Indian Railways is going to undertake a major cleanliness campaign across 100 stations which have more than 10 lakh population or are destinations of tourist or religious importance. The…
In order to address the disposal of unsegregated industrial waste from its workshop located at Matunga, the Central Railway is planning to outsource the job to a government authorised agency…
West Central Railway is planning to outsource, cleaning, housekeeping and waste management of New Katni Junction diesel shed premises. The job would clean areas including office complex, training school, laboratory,…
Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest rail networks comprising 115,000km of track over a route of 65,000km with over 7,500 stations. This massive network carries over 25 million…
Indian Railways is planning to develop a wet and dry heavy duty vacuum cleaner that can collect the garbage from the tracks and deposit in different containers. The machine being…
North Central Railway has turned to mechanised cleaning for upkeep of some of its stations including Allahabad, Agra and Jhansi. The cleaning will be mainly done using high pressure jet…
Indian Railways has decided to set up four bio-diesel esterification plants for production of bio-diesel. The first two bio-diesel esterification plants with a capacity of 30 tonnes of bio-diesel per…
The Railways across India is making all out efforts to maintain its platforms, hospitals and colonies through regular cleaning and to keep it garbage free. Even smaller stations down South…
As millions of Mumbaikars pack themselves into trains to get to work every morning, they are accompanied by an equal number of cockroaches, spiders, rats and other pests! Commuters complain…
The Indian Railways had been the much-preferred and cheaper means of transportation for the people until a few years ago, when low cost airlines started chewing into the profits of the former with the upper middle class and middle class passengers opting for the latter. Cleanliness, hygiene, sanitation, punctuality… are some of the daunting areas that have made railways a second choice next to economic budget flights. The Indian Railways has ever since been experimenting with various solutions to win a clean chit. The modernisation and mechanised cleaning adopted at various railway stations have hiked business prospects for the cleaning industry.