Manual scavengers give a hand to clean clogged up bio-toilets


An overwhelming majority of trains fitted with bio-toilets, maintained at two train care centres in the city, are choked with physical waste, requiring manual cleaning. This is ironic, considering that the Railways are envisaging installation of bio-toilets in all coaches by 2021, to do away with direct discharge and reduce the scourge of manual scavenging.

At the Basin Bridge yard, which maintains trains coming to Chennai Central, as much 70 per cent of bio-toilets are clogged when trains arrive for primary maintenance — a five-six hour procedure which includes complete washing of the coach. On a average, workers at the yard attend to roughly 170 coaches, fitted with four bio-toilets each, every day.................Read more

 

Source: The New Indian Express


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