Foreigner Highlights Train Toilet Conditions in India: Cleanliness : Driving Conversations

While in the recent  video, of a foreign traveler posting a video of a train toilet in India, is kind of old, it has started to circulate more recently; That video quickly went viral, drawing attention to a common issue in Indian Railways: Maid for millions of passengers' train toilets. It has to be cleaned across hundreds of trains, which puts you on the world’s largest rail network — India’s.

Trains are not Clean.

Indian Railways is carrying over 20 million people every single day traveling thousands of routes. But long journeys with so many people how do you keep clean train toilet? The reasons for unhygienic train toilets include uncleaning staff and resources and overcrowding.

Dirty floors, bad smells, no soap or toilet paper: that's what the video showed. But this is a familiar problem for many passengers and the video is inspiring people to speak out about cleaner train facilities.

Reactions from the Public

People kind of responded pretty strongly to the video. Other people in the group shared their own experiences of non clean train toilets, of disappointment and frustration. These conditions are more worrying considering the boom in tourism in India and one must do a double take to the effect travellers would come to experience as a result because the number of tourists is increasing as fast as the number of good hotels available for them.

People liked that the video was real and showed a real problem, they hoped it would prompt the railway authorities to address it, more firmly. This has definitely raised awareness about this issue and the problems so many travellers have to face coming home with this sort of hygiene issues.

It’s time to know what Indian Railways are doing for better service.

Indian Railways has also done its bit to make trains a little cleaner in recent years. Some of these efforts include:

1. Bio-Toilets: Bio-toilets, however, most trains have now — wihes bacteria to breakdown the waste, reducing odor and improving hygiene. 2019 saw us add more than 200,000 bio-toilets, and there will be more.

2. Clean My Coach Service: Assisting ‘Clean My Coach’, passengers can send texts for service, requesting that cleaning of the vehicle be done. Here, when it is necessary to clean the ailing station, cleaning staff at a given stations respond more quickly.

3. Onboard Housekeeping: Some of the long distance trains have staff on board, who carry out the house keeping during the trip. This doesn’t make toilets in busy trains easy to keep clean, though.

4. Awareness Campaigns: Indian Railways has also set up committees to run campaigns against passengers who use the facilities irresponsibly, or not paying heed on when entering the train at the stations and the toilets or throwing waste in toilets.

These have, partially, helped out in a little way but it is hard to get all the train toilets to stay clean over the labyrinthine rails network.

Balancing Scale and Quality

One very big challenge of company is that that Indian Railways is a big operation. Between the thousands of trains that run every day, it’s almost impossible for every route to stay as clean as it should be. But toilets are also hard to clean because of overcrowding, the lack of waste bins and long journeys.

Premium trains like Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express trains are cleaned to better standards, but local and long distance trains sometimes fumble with keeping up similar levels of hygiene.

Conditions that are improved.

Actions by railway authorities and even from passengers on Indian trains need more of sanitation. Here are some suggestions:

1. More Cleaning Staff: For example, if your ship is going on long journeys (that you would prefer that your hygiene was maintained), it is possible that a greater number of cleaning staff could be hired in order to clean inside trains.

2. Modernize Toilets: Toilets with improved ventilation and easy to clean surface would also be easier to maintain.

3. Regular Inspections: Routine inspections of trains would be far less time consuming than going through hours of footage of them being crammed full of rubbish and people peeing if there were regular inspections.

4. Encouraging Passenger Responsibility: Also, passengers are important. If you encourage them to clean the toilets and use the waste bins, this can be a big thing.

5. Better Waste Disposal Facilities: For travellers like myself, things start getting a lot better in the toilet department if my travelling friends make a habit of putting in trash bins, and some basic supplies, soap and TP for example.

Moving Towards Cleaner Trains

For India’s tourism industry, that development continues, it becomes all the more important. Many tourists depend on trains in order to explore India and what they see when they take them plays a part in forming their memories. It can clean up train not just for locals but foreigners as well on the efficiency of railway.

Video is a reminder to the foreign traveler that you need to keep public transport clean and present a basic level of hygiene to expect from passengers. Some improvements have been taken up by Indian Railways but they are not done towards a cleaner and a more comfortable place.

Conclusion

That viral video of type of train toilet conditions has drawn attention to the better hygiene demand on the Indian Railways. If the railways have been advanced, then this incident still betrays that they’re not quite there yet. India can experience a very enjoyable and a clean railway experience for all the passengers with investment, focus and public awareness.