Ministry of Railways
Installation of Bio Toilets in Railways
Posted On:
03 FEB 2017 5:41PM by PIB Delhi
The Government has provided ₹ 1155 Crores in current fiscal towards fitment of bio-toilets in coaches as part of Swachh Bharat. As of now, there are about 800 trains, which are having either some coaches or all the coaches fitted with bio-toilets. The Zone-wise details of some of the trains having coaches equipped with bio-toilets are given below. It had earlier been targeted to fit bio-toilets in the entire fleet of coaches by the year 2021-22. Target has now been advanced to the year 2019.
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Zonal Railway
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Some of the trains having coaches fitted with bio-toilets
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Central
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12137/38 Mumbai-Firozpur Punjab Mail,
12131/32 Dadar-Sai Nagar Shirdi Express,
12163/64 Dadar-Chennai Egmore Express
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East Central
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15227/28 Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur Express,
12567/68 Rajya Rani Express,
13301/02 Subarn Rekha Express
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East Coast
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18401/02 Puri-Okha Express,
18496/95 Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram Express,
12898/97 Bhubaneswar-Pondicherry Express
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Eastern
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12343/44 Darjeeling Mail,
12345/46 Saraighat Express,
12307/08 Howrah-Jodhpur Express
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North Central
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11107/06 Bundelkhand Express,
11105/06 Jhansi-Kolkata Express,
12451/52 Shram Shakti Express
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North Eastern
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15045/46 Gorakhpur-Okha Express,
15119/20 Manduadih-Rameswaram Express,
12533/34 Pushpak Express
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Northeast Frontier
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15635/36 Okha-Guwahati Express,
15647/48 Lokmanya Tilak (T)-Guwahati Express
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Northern
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14033/34 Jammu Mail
12472/74/76/78 Swaraj Group trains
14609/10 Hemkunt Express
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North Western
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09722/21 Udaipur-Jaipur Superfast Special Express
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Zonal Railway
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Some of the trains having coaches fitted with bio-toilets
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South Central
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17016/15 Visakha Express,
12796/95 Secunderabad-Vijayawada Intercity Express,
17211/12 Machilipatnam Yesvantpur Express
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South East Central
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18239/12856 Gevra Road-Nagpur-Bilaspur Shivnath/Intercity Exp., 12851/12849 Bilaspur-Chennai Central/Bilaspur-Pune Express, 12853/12854 Amarkantak Express
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South Eastern
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12863/64 Howrah-Yesvantpur Express,
12837/38 Howrah-Puri Express,
12810/09 Howrah-Mumbai Mail
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Southern
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22661/62 Sethu Express,
16780/79 Rameswaram-Tirupathi Express,
22621/22 Rameswaram-Kanyakumari Express
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South Western
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16229/30 Mysuru-Varanasi Bi-weekly Express
16209/10 Ajmer-Mysuru Bi-weekly Express
16589/90 Rani Channamma Express
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West Central
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12121/22 Madhya Pradesh Sampark Kranti Express
11449/50 Jabalpur-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express
19803/04 Kota-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express
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Western
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19263/64 Porbandar-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express,
12905/06 Porbandar-Howrah Superfast Express,
19269/70 Porbandar-Muzaffarpur Express
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This Press Release is based on the information given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Rajen Gohain in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on 03.02.2017 (Friday).
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