Railways clean up 20K km tracks, turns waste into art
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Railways clean up 20K km tracks, turns waste into art

“The railways, apart from doing a slew of cleanliness activities, also cleaned up 11,756,611 m of drains during the campaign and organised Nukkad Natak (street plays) at 821 locations. The most important part was that the railway carried out 2259 anti-littering drives during which 12,609 people were penalised and 177,133 people were counselled for not littering the railway premises,” said Dileep Kumar, executive director (information & publicity), Railway Board. “We also planted a record number of 263,643 saplings as part of this drive and collected 5400 tonnes of scrap at railway workshops,” Kumar said, adding that the special focus of this year’s drive was on cleanliness of railway tracks located in stations. “The railways throughout the drive collected 710 tonne of plastic waste and obtained 50,276 feedbacks on cleanliness from passengers. The ‘waste to art’ selfie points were also created at 452 stations and 19,759 dustbins were installed,” the ministry statement said. “The railways also launched Swachh Aahar (hygienic foods) at 2597 locations and cleaned 6,960 food stalls,” the ministry said.

“The railways, apart from doing a slew of cleanliness activities, also cleaned up 11,756,611 m of drains during the campaign and organised Nukkad Natak (street plays) at 821 locations. The most important part was that the railway carried out 2259 anti-littering drives during which 12,609 people were penalised and 177,133 people were counselled for not littering the railway premises,” said Dileep Kumar, executive director (information & publicity), Railway Board. “We also planted a record number of 263,643 saplings as part of this drive and collected 5400 tonnes of scrap at railway workshops,” Kumar said, adding that the special focus of this year’s drive was on cleanliness of railway tracks located in stations. “The railways throughout the drive collected 710 tonne of plastic waste and obtained 50,276 feedbacks on cleanliness from passengers. The ‘waste to art’ selfie points were also created at 452 stations and 19,759 dustbins were installed,” the ministry statement said. “The railways also launched Swachh Aahar (hygienic foods) at 2597 locations and cleaned 6,960 food stalls,” the ministry said.

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