This is quite interesting!
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A Proud Indian Canadian
Instead of doing all these , why can't they fix the Tiolets in those trains !!!
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Originally posted by desiuser
Instead of doing all these , why can't they fix the Tiolets in those trains !!!
Fix the people first, who cram themselves in before letting everyone out from that 2 feet wide train door. Hence, the utter chaos. Fix the toilets - I agree.
Don't know why they always fail to take care of the fundamentals first and then move up. GPS, huh? I wonder how many people will use it. Having said so, I think it's a good option. However, they have to fix the basic issues with Indian Railways first before embarking onto something this expansive.
I am not sure of the current, but in the past all the toilets dropped the feces onto the tracks - which itself is totally unacceptable. I pray they have been modified now.
It is easier to adopt new technology and implement it than to change peoples attitude towards public toilets. Even in the more developed and educated society in NA, we often find clogged toilets in public parks and beaches. If all the users started using the public toilets as they use the one at home - this issue will get solved (9/10).
GPS train tracking is indeed beneficial to the travellers and their relatives for real time data. I think it is a good application and should be standard even in buses and trains in NA.
However, the security aspect should also be looked into - since the more facilities they provide, the easier it is for terrorists to plan/monitor their next targets.
Hiren
Fair comments but fixing toilets and installing tracking systems (together with IIT) are two different projects run by separate entities, so cannot be mixed up. Of course clearly one deptt (amenities related) is less active and not so effective. Toilet and hygiene on trains is primarily contract and proper audit control failure. The contractor who are hired for cleaning the trains and even the catering contractors are all on for saving money. There is no honest controlling over them once contract is awarded. They are not debarred for poor service and are awarded contracts again and again and thus the problem stays.
Agreed, the hygiene habits of people are questionable but at times if you do not find water or paper in there , no matter how much you want to clean it for your own habit, you will feel helpless standing there ! .
I am sure GPS system is more to do with IIT's push than IRTC 's motivation.
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Posted on: 22-10-11 00:59:13
I was in the First class as well as the cattle class of some trains recently.
Nothing has changed. The toilets still drop the excreta on to the tracks as before.
But one thing that I saw was that none of the toilets were messed up with excreta and it was generally clean. But then I never saw any one celaning the toilets when the train used to stop at major stations and the toilets stinked with some of them not flushing water as it is supposed to be.
New addition is plug points (two for one coach in cattle class and one per cubicle in first class) for charging your laptop / cell etc..
Peace
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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.
So, it is easier to blame railway administration. But what about people? Who makes it dirty? Do people really read the instructions on how to use it? Do they stop using it while the train is at the station? Only government can't make difference. Here in Canada too, go to a park in summer with lots of people of desi origin and we can easily get flavor of our indian toilets.
People should change first. I think on the payroll, indian railway will have more people per toilet than needed, but simply the rate at which people spoil toilets their efforts are not effective.
Let us coin word "Toilet Engineering" and help Indian Railway build better toliets!
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A Proud Indian Canadian
