OREANDA-NEWS.  Based on the indigenous technology, a total of 7295 bio-tiolets have been installed in 2774 coaches till 31.12.2013. these are running in various trains on Indian Railways.

It is Indian Railways’ endeavour to install environment friendly toilets/bio-toilets in all its passednger coaches (new as well as existing) at the earliest. The time frame for their full scale deployment depends upon the changes/modifications necessitated from time to time based on the feedback on its performance, outcome of the fitment trials, usage pattern and other service conditions. However, it is planned to induct all new coaches from Production Units fitted with bio-toilets from 2016-17 onwards. Based upon present situation, the entire fleet of passenger coaches is expected to be equipped with such bio-toilets by 2021-22.