Green Train Corridors

The Government has commissioned the following three sections as Green train corridors free from human waste discharge from trains: -

Section	Zonal Railway	Route Length (kms)
Rameswaram-Manamadurai	Southern Railway	114
Okha - Kanalus	Western Railway	141
Porbandar -Wansjaliya	Western Railway	34

The government has identified the following route to be included under this scheme : -

Section	Zonal Railway	Route Length (kms)
Jammu Tawi - Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra	Northern Railway	78

• The 114-km-long Manamadurai– Rameswaram stretch of Southern Railway became India’s first ‘Green corridor’.
• All the trains running in these sections (Green Train Corridors) would have bio-toilets and there would be zero discharge of human waste on tracks in the section.
• Indian Railway has developed the environment friendly ‘IR-DRDO Bio-toilets’, in association with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
• In the Bio Toilets, Regenerative type anaerobic bacteria in liquid form is poured into the six-chamber retention tanks in the bio-toilets and the bacteria helps in disintegrating human waste into liquid and gas.