User talk:Dhanamjay kumar

Indian Railways scores high on pollution index but that does not seem to bother the administration much
Railways have provided a very good transportation facility for the commuters since more than 100 years in India and it has reached to each and every part of the country. It is really highly appreciable. It has improved a lot, as the time changed in respect of its technology, its appearance, comforts for the passengers, timing, frequency, pantry cars etc except one thing which would have been given priority, which is helping the deterioration of the surrounding environment from where these trains pass. It is causing serious harm to the cities, villages, towns, mountains etc by giving a very unhygienic environment to breath and sustains the impact, if the person has capacity to sustain this type of pollution load. You must be confused what I am talking about, it is a type of pollution, I wish to bring to your kind notice which is seen by everybody, felt its stink odors at every station and every where in surroundings when a train is passed nearby them at all the time, but no one feels to give a thought for the same as they are not aware of the consequences. Railway authorities must not think about only passengers but also they have to think of the persons, localities, vicinities, cities, towns villages, buildings, mountains, rivers, valleys from where it is passed and the persons dwelling are the sufferers. Railway’s pollute environment., as they do not have a system to collect the sewage generated by the passengers as well as the outsiders using it when it is at halt by proving close water closet with a proper system. Discharging fresh faecal matter to the open atmosphere, either when the train is in motion or it is not in motion.''

Indian Railways is a major user of water for cleaning of trains and stations. It also generates a large quantity of sewage both on trains and stations. Train servicing and maintenance processes generate effluents such as oil, anti-freeze and cleaning chemicals which can pollute the environment, if not carefully controlled. Thus, proper treatment of waste before its discharge into the municipal sewers is essential. The Railway Board gave instructions in June 2009 for installation of Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP) at all major stations but on the ground, these plants are too few and far between. The discharge of human waste is more pathetic. Railways uses over 40,000 coaches regularly for providing passenger services with each coach having four toilets. About 3,980 MT of human waste is generated everyday by travelling passengers from ‘Open discharge’ module toilets of these coaches that directly goes onto the rail tracks polluting the stations and the areas through which the trains pass. In order to avoid open discharge of toilets on track, introduction of ‘Green Toilets’ has been under consideration for last two decades and it will still take a long time before they turn into a norm rather than an exception. According to a media report, all trains maintained by the Delhi Division will have green toilets by the end of this financial year.