Okha-Kanalus and Porbandar-Wansjaliya Sections inaugurated

Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurating the “Okha-Kanalus and Porbandar-Wansjaliya Sections in Gujarat of Western Railways as Green Corridor Sections

Question: Recently Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated the Okha-Kanalus and Porbandar-Wansjaliya Sections in Gujarat as Green Corridor Sections (Free from human waste discharge from trains), the section belongs to which of the following Railway Zone?
(a) North Western Railway
(b) Western Railway
(c) Eastern Railway
(d) South Western Railway
Ans: (b)
Related facts:

  • On 19 October 2016; Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated Okha-Kanalus (141 Kms) and Porbandar-Wansjaliya (34 Kms) sections of Gujarat in Western Railway as the Green Train Corridors.
  • For this, 29 trains consisting of nearly 700 coaches have been provided with bio toilets.
  • It is a further move to accelerate green initiatives as also to implement Prime Minister’s Swacchh Bharat Abhiyan.
  • It should be noted that Ministry of Railways have taken up a mammoth task of providing human discharge free bio-toilets in all its coaches and the same would be completed by 2021-22.
  • Ministry of Railways has already provided around 48,000 bio-toilets in about 14,000 passenger coaches.
  • Before this Rameswaram-Manamadurai (114 Kms) section of Tamil Nadu in Southern Railway was indentified to make it a Human Waste Discharge Free Train Corridor (free from human waste discharge from trains).
  • Accordingly, 10 passenger trains consisting of 286 coaches moving over this section have been provided with bio-toilets.
  • Subsequently, Jammu-Katra (78 Kms) section of Northern Railway would also be taken up for making it free from human waste discharge from trains and the target for completion is by March 2017.

Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151790
http://www.uniindia.com/okha-kanalus-porbandar-wansjaliya-sections-of-guj-become-green-train-corridors/india/news/659653.html