MUMBAI: The railways will focus on 'collection of ' on September 17 as part of the ongoing cleanliness drive. will create awareness campaigns for creating impact against plastic; vendors to be educated not to use plastic due to single use plastic ban in force in Maharashtra; replacements/substitutes for plastic items to be displayed and distribution of cloth bags, etc. are being done to create awareness. Apart from cleanliness, collection of plastic from all railway premises with particular attention to be given to approaches to station. Said Central Railway's senior PRO Jain, "Shramdaan will also be carried out at every station with participation from all railway employees, their families, union representatives, railway pensioners, and all other stakeholders and self-help groups." The CR has developed nurseries at Pandharpur, Sainagar , Dudhani, Wadi, Manmad and . About 10 more nurseries will be added on Mumbai, Bhusaval, Pune and Nagpur divisions this month under Swachhata Pakhawada activity. Central Railway had planted more than 5 lakh saplings till August 19 jointly with state forest department, he said. CR general manager A.K. Gupta, while exhorting the principal heads of departments and DRMs, said this would create a healthy environment for Railways to celebrate October 2 which is “the 150 years of Mahatma Gandhi” with highest cleanliness standard of all our stations, trains, colonies, hospitals and health units.
India’s Central Railway is to carry out a plastic waste collection on 17 September as part of its wider cleanliness drive. The move comes after the Delhi government announced in May that it would be implementing an ambitious plan for cleaning up Delhi’s waterways.