IMPROVING CLEANLINESS ON RAILWAYS
The Ministry of Railways
has empowered Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) to carry out
mechanised cleaning of trains and station premises as well as
give pest control contracts. This also includes powers to contract
one time cleaning of any area which may have become very dirty
and need special inputs like purchase of certain equipment needed
for sanitation related activities.
The DRMs did
not have such power earlier. This will go a long way in carrying
out major cleanliness drive on Railways in general and trains
in particular.
The empowerment
of DRMs is a sequel to declaring the current financial year 2003-2004
as the Customer Satisfaction Year, which if implemented faithfully,
will improve cleanliness on Railways.
