Hygiene & Clenliness in Indian Railways

BIKASH CHOUDHURY


Recently traveled to Delhi by Rajdhani and returned by New Delhi-Puri Express in sleeper class. I was very unhappy with the standard of Hygiene and General Cleanliness in passenger coaches and wash rooms. Knowing the bad habits of large number of people using railways services; I propose the following for maintaining highest standard of hygiene and cleanliness in all over 15, 000 passenger coaches; while creating self employment opportunity for our Physically challenged people/and other depressed classes.

1. Railways first of all need to commit itself to highest standard of hygiene and cleanliness in all passenger coaches.
2. Keeping in view of bad habits of passengers, railways can recruit two Physically challenged persons on contract by an outsourcing agency to be responsible for continuous hygiene-cleanliness of coaches at all times including wash area. These people can be offered suitable training and equipments to discharge their duty.
3. Railways can pay them some nominal amount through their out sourcing agency and allow them to earn by selling essential commodities to passenger, render odd services and can earn from tips of passengers; thereby, reducing Railways financial burden and at the same time offer best of services in a clean environment to passengers.

This could be a Simple and Sustainable solutions to a gigantic problem of maintaining cleanliness across railway net work lock-stock-barrel; while being revenue positive.This would be friendly to in bound tourist visiting our country and therefore enhance the image of our country abroad.Hope the Railway Board would consider this Idea with immediate effect and implement asap.