Cleanliness drive by Railways - collects Rs 58 lakhs in fine from Delhi Railway station

Indian Railways has launched a cleanliness drive and, as a result of that, the New Delhi station has collected Rs 58 lakhs in fine from people who were caught littering the station or committing nuisance like urinating on the walls.
This has been reported in m.dailyhunt.in/news dated 29 December 2015.

This is due to the zealous drive of the Indian Railways to curtail littering at the railway stations across the country. In order to check this, the authorities have been imposing hefty fine and penalty on those who leave behind waste either on platform or tracks.
The collection in Delhi alone was about Rs 58 lakh as penalty. The Delhi division of Northern Railway collected this amount in fines for littering at 5 major stations - Delhi Main, New Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Anand Vihar and Ghaziabad. Those found spitting or urinating in public also face the heat with fines ranging from between Rs 200-500. Earlier, in June this year, Northern Railways had collected Rs 2.3 lakh as fines at New Delhi railway station.
Moreover, 50 people were prosecuted for not paying fines and were put before a magistrate, where they eventually paid the penalty.
RPF personnel are assisting the railway staff in imposing penalty on delinquent people.

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#SwatchhBharat #tobacco #spitting #maharashtra In keeping with the Swatchh Bharat campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the initiative proposed to be taken by Maharashtra to ban tobacco chewing and spitting in public in order to ensure cleanliness is a laudable step. Chewing of tobacco can lead to cancer and spitting in public places carries with it the grave danger of spreading diseases.
Spitting in public places could lead to spread of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 6 March 2015.
Under the proposal, if a person is caught not just spitting tobacco juice but even chewing it in a public place, he might have to become an unpaid government sweeper for a day – he would have to sweep for eight hours.
This is what the state health department is considering in the hope that such a stringent punishment against tobacco users would help to curb the habit.
Health Minister Deepak Sawant has indicated that if a person is found spitting from a luxury car, he would also not be spared - he should be made to clean a government office for a day. However, if a driver spits on the road, his license should be suspended for at least a month.
This proposal has, apparently, been forwarded to the state law and judiciary department for legal opinion.
Implementation is difficult because in Maharashtra every second person is addicted to tobacco and a situation could come when the government offices would be full of unpaid sweepers and there would not be enough places to clean.