Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Steel mugs in lavatories of trains stolen in spite of being chained to the walls


Swatchh Bharat is he dream of our Prime minister Narendra Modi and, in order to make it a reality, plenty of funds have been earmarked. The Jabalpur Division of West Central Railway introduced steel mugs in the lavatories - the mugs were kept chained to the walls. But, over the pat three months, 1100 of the 1800 have gone missing.
With such an attitude among the travelers, the Prime Minister's Clean India campaign would be extremely difficult to implement because, such an experiment has failed.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 4 January 2017.
Until recently, steel mugs were available in the toilets of only some of the AC coaches. But, the railways have begun to provide them in all categories of compartments. Jabalpur Division began implementation three months ago and, when a recount was done after 90 days, there were only 700 of the 1,800 mugs left.
The cost of the stolen mugs is estimated to be Rs 90,000 and, an equal sum had been spent on the steel chains - these had been yanked off the wall clamps.
A senior railway official added that one day, 80 new mugs were installed in the Shridham Express. This train travels between Jabalpur and New Delhi and, when it returned to Jabalpur 36 hours later, there were only 20 mugs. It seems all the mugs in the AC and sleeper coaches were missing - presumed to have been stolen.


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