Achhe Din for train travelers – Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express to get vacuum toilets

Those who travel by the Indian Railways have got accustomed to stinking and dirty toilets and, they can now expect to get into the ‘achhe din’ stage because vacuum toilets are being introduced in the Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express with immediate effect. These toilets are used in airlines.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 14 September 2015.

The cost of these vacuum toilets is about Rs 3 lakhs each and will be fitted in the First AC coach – these are equipped with the bio-digester system and are environment-friendly. These use less water than conventional ones because of improved efficiency of the flush – hence, it conserves water. And, such toilets would also help prevent corrosion of rail tracks.
As per plans, the railways will initially install 80 such toilets on a Shatabdi Express train.
At present premier trains like Rajdhani and Shatabdi have controlled discharge toilet system which prevent disposal of waste at stations. The waste is automatically discharged once the train attains a minimum speed of 30 km per hour.
It seems till now, the railways have replaced 17,388 conventional toilets with bio-toilets and have plans to replace another 17,000 by the end of this year. Considering an express train with 25 coaches and each coach has four toilets, which would work out to 100 toilets for every train. Therefore, the 17388 plus 17000 toilets proposed by the year end would take care of 340 express trains. One would like to know the time frame for converting the remaining conventional toilets to bio toilets.
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