RAILWAY COACH TOILETS
Daily 40,000 train coaches in use
Chennai : Daily 10 people per coach means 4 lakh people discharging 250 grams of faeces per person means, 400 tonnes all over Rlys yearly 1,46.000 tonnes.
Medically, one Kg of faeces contains 6 billion virus and bacteria around the track.
Winds blow at 15 Km per hour,200 million people around the track are affected Polio is transmitted through these faeces around the track by wind energy Hepatitis,diarrhea,cholera,typhoid and parasites diseases through hookworm.
For a P I L, the Rly said that this would cost Rs 4000 crores budget for green toilets.
In USA and Japan, the destination station takes care of by sewage discharge plant.
In Japan, Rlys use bio-toilet system bacteria to decompose the waste in the train and no need to empty the tanks, except once a year.
In India, Rlys can generate electricity when there is a steel tank, converted into methane from green toilets.
Indian Rlys need only 20,000 technicians for this retrofitting a simple method.
Gandhiji blamed the Rlys for causing diseases from tracks in ‘Hind Swaraj.’
CME/ICF Mr. Hemant Kumar says: Which design to adopt is the question? One is Biodegradable toilets or taking the train to discharge into a sewage treatment plant at the destination station. A controlled discharge system now in trial costs Rs 6.5 lakh per coach but not a green toilet.
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