Srinand Jha, January 6, 2018- IndiaSpend The Indian Railways need to buy 3,350 truckloads of cow dung at Rs 42 crore in 2018 to “recharge”–add bacteria to activate degradation–leaky, malfunctioning ‘bio-toilets’ that it has fitted on 44.8% of trains and hopes to expand to […]
New toilets in trains no better than septic tanks: IIT-M study
By Srinand Jha The Economics Times, Nov 23, 2017 A new kind of toilet using bacteria to break down human excreta has been deployed in Indian trains over four years to 2017, at a cost of Rs 1,305 crore, but this toilet is no better than a septic tank, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) […]
Bio-toilet choked with complaints
By Pradip R Sagar | Published: 28th October 2017 The Sunday Standard NEW DELHI: Forget about missiles or battle tanks, the country’s premier defence research agency DRDO’s bio-toilets are getting blocked with major glitches. Indian Railways, the toilets’ main user, is getting hundreds of daily complaints from passengers from its 17 zones, and its top […]
Bio-toilet Issues
Posted by: Clean India Journal – Editor May 10, 2016 in News Having received a number of complaints on non-functioning of installed bio-toilets like choking of pipes, improper ventilation in toilet, incursion of non-biodegradable materials, use of excessive acid, usage of more people than the prescribed limit, bio-toilets remained unutilized for more than six months […]
More SCR trains to feature bio-toilets
Staff Reporter – The Hindu HYDERABAD:, MAY 17, 2013 The bio-toilet costs about Rs.80,000 apiece and uses uses bacteria to decompose night soil. Authorities plan to install 200 of them in Padmavathi, Ajanta and other trains After conducting a successful trial run of using bio-toilets in 17 coaches of Hyderabad-Mumbai and Kacheguda-Bangalore Express trains, the […]
Toilets on trains: Some issues that need attention
October 18, 2014, Economic Times Blog Ever since the Railway Committee started its work, whenever people run into me, even if it is at a social occasion, they buttonhole me and offer suggestions about what should be done to improve the Railways. This is understandable and desirable, since it is a manifestation of interest in […]
DRDO’s bio-toilets raise a stink
By Hemant Kumar Rout Published: 13th August 2016 – The New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: The much-hyped bio-toilets invented by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and installed in railway coaches, public places and colonies seem to have sparked of a controversy with some senior scientists raising voice against the functioning and technology which allegedly uses cow […]
BIO-TOILETS STINK AS COMMUTERS, AUTHORITIES PLAY BLAME GAME
By Rajendra B Aklekar, Mumbai Mirror | May 5, 2015, 12.05 AM IST Bio-toilets that were fitted in train coaches amid much fanfare are already stinking, with some passengers complaining that the stench is so foul that it is unbearable for those sitting near the toilets. According to Central Railway’s (CR) official data, of the […]
Toilet truth hits drive
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT – The Telegraph New Delhi, Sept. 3, 2014: Whether the digester bacteria have called cease work or not isn’t clear but the government’s bio-toilet drive in villages is suddenly looking a bit leaky. The Odisha government has told the National Human Rights Commission that nine of the 12 bio-digester toilets installed in […]
DRDO to make unmanned combat systems
S. SANDEEP KUMAR, November 24, 2014 17:04 IST THE HINDU “it is going to be the future, it will be a fight against one technology over the other, than the conventional man against man wars,” DRDO Director General Avinash Chander said. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Director General Dr. Avinash Chander underscored the need […]
