GUWAHATI: Indian Railways have planned to install environment-friendly bio-toilets in railway coaches.
For this, all new coaches, being turned out from coach Production Units of Indian Railways, are being fitted with bio-toilets and all railway workshops have been instructed to retro-fit bio-toilets in all the existing in-service eligible coaches that are undergoing mid-life rehabilitation and periodical overhaul.
Retro-fitment of bio-toilets is also being done in coaching depots.
As of now, approximately 70% of the total passenger carrying coaches of the Indian Railways have been installed with bio-toilets and it has been proposed to complete the installation work of bio-toilets in balance coaches by the year 2019.
