IR installs 125,000 bio-toilets in train coaches

IR has provided about 125,000 bio-toilets in its coaches as of March 2018. This covers about 60 per cent of IR’s coaching fleet. During 2017-18, IR installed the highest-ever number of bio-toilets in its coaches, which is 40 per cent higher than the target of 40,000 bio-toilets and 64 per cent higher than the installation of 34,134 bio-toilets in 2016-17. So far, IR has operationalised 27 sections as green corridors. All the trains plying on these sections have all their coaches equipped with bio-toilets. Thus, there is no direct discharge of human waste from the trains running on these corridors.