Yeah going green on train toilets is fantastic provided they work.
If they don’t they’ll STINK worse than ever.

But what really stinks is flagrant bribe-taking by ticket examiners and equally flagrant bribe-giving by the public.

When I am in India which is at least for five months every year I use ONLY PUBLIC MASS TRANSIT. No dumb SUVs and private cars for me. I ride our wonderful IR all the time. This is DEMOCRACY on wheels.

But what is completely unacceptable that corruption by Ticket examiners (TTEs). They collect cash payments on their shift from everybody. I have NEVER given them a paisa, and never will.

They “sell” berths to people who have not paid their fare to the IR. In fact the TTEs run a PARALLEL ECONOMY. An underground illegal economy that drains money from the IR.

I have seen it happen right in front of my eyes whenever I ride the trains (second class of course, I am no elitist),
of the Indian Railways.

The PEOPLE have the power to change this by not giving bribes to TTEs.

Dr. Chithra KarunaKaran

http://www.EthicalDemocracy.blogspot.com

New York, New York
USA

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I hope this means disposal in a proper waste treatment facility because chlorine, as we know, isn’t the greatest environmental addition. I wonder if they’ll be dumping the chlorine on the rails? Oish!