Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) plans to procure 200 more eco-friendly bio-toilets to provide the facility on more trains in the next few months. The decision was taken after successful trial of 48 bio-toilets fitted to the 17 coaches being run on Hyderabad-Mumbai Hussain Sagar Express and Kacheguda-Bangalore Express.
Bio-toilets were developed jointly by Railway Research and Standard Organisation (RDSO) and Defence Research Development Establishment (DRDE) for use in Indian Railways and are currently under trial in many of the zonal railways.
SCR, which has its headquarters in Hyderabad, took a lead in the trial and provided the facility in two trains.
The conventional toilets in the trains, by allowing human waste to fall on the tracks, cause unhygienic conditions and corrosion to track and coach fittings endangering the safety. Passengers use toilets while trains are at platforms and the track get scattered with human excreta creating unpleasant situation for passengers on the platforms, said a statement from SCR on Friday....
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06:00 AM, May 18, 2013
Ghaziabad: A person, arrested in connection with the murder of a CISF constable and his wife, was on Sunday found hanging in the toilet of a police lock-up in Ghaziabad. While a fellow prisoner has alleged that the victim was tortured to death, police ruled out the charges, saying he committed suicide. Victim Vineet Sharma, brother-in-law of the slain constable, was arrested by Indirapuram Police along with one more person...
02:15 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Khamhariya Damuan: A 13-year-old is acting as a catalyst of change not just for his home, but for the entire village community in Uttar Pradesh. Omkar Dubey took up the issue of sanitation forcing his village heads to set up public toilets. More than 70 per cent Indian homes have no access to a toilet. India has more cellphones than toilets. More than half a million children in India die...
10:58 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Noida police has found the body of a young man in the sector 21A stadium. The body found hanging from the shower in the ladies toilet of the stadium and the deceased has been identified as Shashank Yadav. ...
02:17 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A Finnish toilet paper maker has removed quotes from the Bible, including the words of Jesus, that it inadvertently placed on its rolls after protests from some Norwegian church leaders. ...
10:37 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said providing toilet to women in the country will instill a sense of confidence, self respect and security among them. It is shameful that 60 per cent of women in the country still defecate in open and there was a shortage of toilets in the country, he said. ...
01:21 AM, Jan 13, 2013
The alleged punishment of cleaning of toilets meted out to primary school children in Odisha's Kendrapara district last year has come under the scanner of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), official sources said. The NHRC has issued summons against the Commissioner-cum-secretary of schools and mass education department a week ago ordering personal appearance before it on January 11. ...
02:03 PM, Dec 23, 2012
New Delhi: The technology has gone too far that today users can conveniently control their TVs, music systems and many other devices with a smartphone. And now you can add one more thing - toilet - to the list of devices controlled using a smartphone, thanks to Japanese technology. Lixil, a Japanese company, has created under its INAX brand of products a Bluetooth-enabled commode - the Satis - that users...
12:04 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Kochi: An Air India Express Kochi-Abu Dhabi flight was delayed by three hours on Wednesday evening after three toilets were found non functional. All 133 passengers and six crew had boarded the flight when it was found the three toilets were not functioning, AIE sources said. Technicians were immediately called in and the problem was rectified, the sources said. Joy Joseph, a passenger, said they had all boarded the flight...
10:35 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Jaipur: A civic body in Rajasthan has announced a Rs 500 reward for students who raise awareness against urinating in public by blowing whistles and beating drums when they see a person in the act. The students will have to send their nominations for the reward and an appreciation letter to the panchayat office after carrying out the service against public urination voluntarily, officials said on Sunday. The Jhunjhunu Zila...
10:45 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Kota: Days after he kicked up a row by stating that there are more temples than toilets in India, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday urged women not to get married into families which do not have toilets in their homes. "Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet," the Rural Development and Water and Sanitation Minister said while addressing locals, majority of whom were women, at...
04:58 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Sagarika Ghose: Yes we are focusing tonight on temples and toilets. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said "Mandir se bhi zyada pavitra hai shauchalaya". Even purer than a temple is a toilet, is he insulting Hindu sentiment or making a strong argument to challenge the Indian mentality on toilets? Remember 626 million Indians still defecate in the open. We're asking are universal modern toilets much more important than temples....
01:17 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Reforms are as much about toilets as they are about FDI Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's statement that a nation's salvation lies in more ...
09:12 AM, Oct 10, 2012
Lucknow: A lawyer has moved a court here seeking a direction for lodging an FIR against Union minister Jairam Ramesh over his comment that there were more temples in the country than toilets. The court on Tuesday fixed October 12 as the next date of hearing on the plea. Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajesh Upadhay also called for a report from local Alambag police station regarding the plea. The lawyer, Yaduvansh...
12:21 AM, Oct 10, 2012
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that toilets are more pure and holy than temples. ...
11:58 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh says toilets are more pure and holy than temples. Tonight at 10, CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts whether universal toilets are more important than temples. You can ask a question to our panelists here or tweet us @face_the_nation.
10:55 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 25 activists of the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday protested outside the Delhi residence of Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh asking him to apologise for his recent remark allegedly comparing temples to toilets at a public meeting on Saturday. Remarking on the lack of sufficient number of public toilets in India, Ramesh said that toilets were far more important than the temples...
01:21 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday stirred a controversy for reportedly comparing toilets to temples. Saying that toilets were far more important than temples, he proceeded to comment upon the poor hygiene levels in the latter. While the BJP has slammed Ramesh, the Congress too has distanced itself from the comments. ...
08:58 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has stirred a controversy for comparing toilets to temples. Ramesh said that toilets are more important that the temples in our country also commenting on poor hygiene levels in the latter. While the BJP lashed out at Ramesh, the Congress has distanced itself from the comments. Congress, which has gone into an overdrive defending Robert Vadra, stated that it is best to leave...
06:57 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday appeared to disapprove of Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh for his comment that there are more temples in the country than toilets, saying "we respect the sanctity of every religious place". "We respect the sanctity of every religious place irrespective of the community it belongs to. I do not know the statement attributed to Ramesh. Perhaps it could have been distorted and he is...
08:38 PM, Oct 06, 2012
