Bio Toilets

Make in India to latest tech: Rail Budget 2015 is balanced but where are the funds?

It is a balanced budget. However, it leaves question mark on the challenge of convincingly garnering the significant amount of funds.

A/C in locals to better food: The promises rail budgets keep making and breaking

Even as Prabhu promised to sweep out the bad and bring in the best for the Indian Railways, there were some 'yeah right' moments during his speech. Many of the promises he made, were repeats of promises made by his predecessors. And here we list out rail projects that never saw light of day.

FDI in railways: Toilets, laundry among 17 areas identified for investment

Besides bio-toilets, cleaning operation and mechanised laundries, the areas identified by the committee for FDI include construction, maintenance and operation facilities to supply non-conventional sources of energy to the Railways, installation and maintenance of bio-toilets in passenger trains, setting up of technical training institutes, testing facilities and laboratories and providing technological solutions to improve safety.<br />

Indian Railways go green to conserve energy

A bio-toilet design has been adopted by the railways and the technology has been introduced in about 2,500 coaches.

Railways to set up bacteria generation plant for bio toilets

The problem of environmental degradation and corrosion of tracks due to night soil has caught the attention of railways for a long time.

Bio-toilets will help solve India's open defecation problem: PM

Recently, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh had said that India had emerged as the world capital of "open defecation" and this was a "matter of shame, anguish, sorrow, anger."