TRICHY: As part of efforts to ensure that the railway junction in
Trichy remains neat and clean and to prevent
plastic bottles piling up on the platform, the Trichy railway division has installed an automatic bottle crushing machine at the current ticket booking centre. Instead of littering the station with bottles, commuters can now dump them in the machine.
Southern railway general manager R K Kulshrestha, who visited the railway junction to inspect the new facility here on Wednesday, appealed to commuters to use the shredding machine and keep the junction clean. The machine operates automatically depending on the number of bottles fed into it. Though it has a capacity to shred 30 to 40 bottles a minute, commuters will have to feed one bottle at a time. The bottles disintegrate into fine pieces of plastic in the machine, officials said.
All plastic and pet bottles up to 2 litres could be processed in the machine, they added. The pet bottle shredder machine put up on platform number 1 was donated by Southern Railway Women’s Welfare Organization Trichy Division (SRWWO). R K Kulshrestha also visited the rail museum located beside the railway junction. He had a look at the exhibits, display materials and artefacts of heritage value. “Funds have been allocated by Railway Board to the tune of Rs 2.5 crore for digitalization of the rare documents preserved in the rail museum and work will start soon”, he said. He also assured that more exhibits would be brought to the museum for display in the coming days.
Later, Kulshrestha visited the railway hospital at Ponmalai where he inspected the various new facilities provided there. Dental Chair attached with dental X-Ray, Fully Automated Computerised Auto Analyser, Surgical Diathermy-Electric Cautery for conducting surgery without spilling blood and the new air-conditioned post-operative ward in the gynaecology block have been established at the hospital at a cost of Rs 20.26 lakh, the railway authorities said.
