Think twice before taking a leak on Railway Tracks. If caught, you will pay Rs 5000 as fine!
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The green tribunal, has not for the first time expressed severe shock at the destitute state of cleanliness of the railways, and has directed the railway and municipal authorities to set up mobile toilets to ensure that people living in slums adjoining the rail lines do not defecate in the open along the tracks and imposed Rs 5,000 fine for littering railway platforms and tracks as part of measures to ensure and maintain clean tracks, said an Economic Times report.
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Not only that, the green tribunal has also directed the railway authorities to collect, transport and treat all the collected waste at treatment plants, instead of directly releasing the garbage into sewer system, the report said. The authorities have also been ordered to install mobile toilets near slum clusters to control pollution caused by plastic products and human defecation around railway tracks.
The tribunal also pulled up the Railways for its "utter failure" in keeping platforms and tracks clean. "We are shocked at the state of affair that is prevailing. Equally irresponsible is the attitude adopted," it said. "Maintaining clean
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On March 2, the tribunal had summoned the
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