Tag Archives: Indian Railways

Several steps have been taken towards improving cleanliness on the railway network. Some of the key initiatives taken by the national transporter for the cleanliness of trains and stations are as follows: 1) Regular campaigns or drives have been conducted ... Read More »

While on a long journey, a common question in every train traveller’s mind arises is that whether the food is hygienic and is the kitchen clean? Here is the list of measures taken by the Indian railways to provide hygienic ... Read More »

In its effort to provide quality and hygienic food to the passengers, Railways have developed and operationalized a standardized system for monitoring of quality and hygiene of catering services through regular inspections at various levels to address catering complaints. Improvement ... Read More »

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to flag off Swachhagraha Express, an exhibition train, from Motihari in Bihar to accentuate on the spirit of Swachhata. As part of the Swachh Bharat Mission, the 14-coach train is expected to be launched ... Read More »

Moving forward from the cleaning initiatives, the Indian Railways is planning to conduct checking on cleanliness of tracks on busy routes using an external independent organisation and rank its 16 zones based on their cleanliness. Similar survey of 407 stations, ... Read More »

The Indian Railways delegation spent two full days at CTW 2017 understanding the various cleaning technologies on display, interacting with exhibitors and engaging in brain storming session with the facility services and laundry segments. How useful was CTW 2017? It ... Read More »

• Special Government delegations • Brain Storming session with Indian Railways for Facility Service Providers and Laundry Industry • 7,500 visitors from across India and abroad • 120 exhibitors representing international and national companies • Over 350 product brands on ... Read More »

The Indian Railways in a significant step in waste management will be providing separate bins for wet and dry waste at all passenger interface areas in A1 & A category stations besides the pantry service, vending stalls and independent food ... Read More »

Manipal University student Vinod Anthony Thomas, a tenth  semester student of Faculty of Architecture won  the second prize in  a competition of the Indian Railways organized  by Research Designs and Standards Organization, Lucknow. The competition was for designing waterless and odorless toilets ... Read More »

Be it ‘Palace on Wheels’ one of the costliest and best trains providing world class facilities or the ‘Garib Rath’, an Express with AC coaches at affordable prices, Indian Railways – the lifeline of Indian commuters – chugs ‘Up and ... Read More »

In keeping with the budgetary announcement, the Ministry of Railways has formed an exclusive wing for an integrated management of all housekeeping activities of passenger interface of Indian Railways both in trains as well as at Railway Stations. This has been ... Read More »

Two sections of Indian Railways have been identified to be made ‘zero toilet discharge’ sections by October 2, 2015 – Kanalus-Dwarka- Okha and Porbander-Wansjalya. Jammu-Katra and Manmadurai- Rameshwaram will be covered later in the year. All the trains originating/terminating and ... Read More »

INDIAN RAILWAYS ISSUES GUIDELINES The Railway Board has issued a set of guidelines to all Zonal Railways for inviting tenders for engaging professional/reputed agencies for the purpose of outsourcing of cleanliness at 50 major railways station of ‘A1’ & ‘A’ ... Read More »

In tune with the Swachh Bharat Mission, South Central Railway has intensified checks against littering and spitting on Railway premises and trains. During October, 2014, 6525 persons were detected and penalized for violating  the rules on maintaining cleanliness at Railway ... Read More »

Indian Railways has decided to rank its zones and divisions for serving quality food and maintaining cleanliness on trains and at stations. Concerned officials of the zones and divisions ranked poorly would be held accountable and may face action. While ... Read More »

Railways Minister D. V. Sadananda Gowda has announced a substantial increase in budget allocation for cleanliness in the current year, which is a 40 percent increase over the previous year. The Indian Railways proposes to outsource cleaning activities at 50 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

In a welcome step, to improve the quality of the Supply of Hygienically Neat & Clean Bed Rolls to AC Passenger, Indian Railways is planning to set-up more mechanized laundries on 42 new locations in near future in addition to ... Read More »

Indian Railways has recently introduced mechanised cleaning at some stations of Ratlam division. Ujjain, Dahod and Chittorgarh stations have already installed the machines to clean the premises. Tenders are now being floated for Ratlam. In February this year Indore became ... Read More »

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 campaign will cover all the zonal Railways. Bio-toilets will be ... Read More »