Can massive amounts of human excrement be transformed and used to tackle waste management challenges? India is currently addressing this issue by channelling it into composting systems through the use ...

Guwahati: At least 27 bio-toilets, installed across the city between 2018 and 2019 for public convenience, have mostly remained non-functional for nearly five to six years, causing inconvenience to ...

Piyush Goyal-led Railway Ministry has completed the successful installation of bio-toilets in 95 per cent trains across the Indian Railways network. Indian Railways’ big step towards sustainable ...

Trichy: As the bio-toilets fixed in 1.37 lakh trains across the country have failed to yield the desired benefits, the railways has decided to switch over to a new kind of bio-vacuum toilets soon.

The Union Minister further said that his ministry will soon roll-out bio-vacuum toilets in train coaches, similar to those installed in passenger airplanes. After installing bio-toilets in almost all ...

After installing bio-toilets in almost all the train coaches, the Indian Railways is now mulling to replace them with “upgraded” vacuum bio-toilets, railway minister Piyush Goyal has said. There is a ...

The railways has installed more than one lakh bio-toilets in trains during 2015-2018, surpassing the target of 87,000 set by it, the government informed Parliament today. Minister of State for ...

To eliminate the direct discharge of human waste, generated in train coaches, onto rail tracks, bio-toilets have been installed by Indian Railways in its passenger-carrying coaches. Indian Railways ...

After installing bio-toilets in a majority of train coaches, the Indian Railways is now mulling to replace them with “upgraded” vacuum bio-toilets, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said. “We have ...

For the 2015-16 fiscal, Railways hopes to fit 17,000 bio-toilets in long-distance trains as part of its ‘Swachh Rail-Swachh Bharat’ programme. However, the bio-toilets that are installed in new ...

Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], July 29 (ANI): Taking a step in the direction of environmental cleanliness, bio-toilets have been fitted in all 3,247 coaches under the East Coast Railway (ECoR), that ...

The new aircraft-style toilets not only improve sanitation in trains and railway stations, they also prevent corrosion of tracks from scattered human excreta, which adds Rs 400 crore a year to ...