Ideas for railway management -1…. Toilets

Just some basic statistics to give the reader a direction..
a) Indian railways has 7,172… and almost all of them are in the center of their respective cities.
b) Needless to say, Indian railways spans the country east-west and north-south.
c) As per IR Facts and figures .. IR has a quantified social service obligation of Rs 20,082 crores, which is more than 20% of its gross receipts. This is only in the loss that it incurs in running uneconomical lines and transporting goods below cost…
d) Toilets are missing on most stations and platforms… island platforms generally have no toilets, resulting in open urination and defecation.
e) We still have a culture of separate and distinct toilets for officers, staff and customers.

SHAMEFULLY, today IR seeks to lease out toilets and seeks to gain revenue from these.

Indian Railways needs to embark on a massive toilet construction drive…
IDEA : We need toilets all around the station… at entrance, on either side of platforms (and in the middle), on first entrance, second entrance, third entrance.
I) We cannot have different toilet classes… everyone uses the same toilet, no matter who he is… that is the only way we can ensure that Toilets are clean and usable.
II) A massive and continuous toilet education.. the Indian railways reach makes it most suitable for making this media coverage and education campaign.

Some facts in support:
i) The land with Indian Railways, belongs to the state government.. hence there should not be any problem in temporarily leasing it out private agencies / NGOs to make toilets.
ii) Every toilet can be made at a small cost, with infrastructure contributed by Indian Railways and run by private agencies like, Sulabh international.
iii) IR will gain maximum by this, as cleaning requirements will decrease significantly.
iv) Even with this step, we are having toilets at a distance of 300 meters apart.. every platform is more than 600 meters in length.
v) Within the existing delegated powers, and the IR’s culture of delivery.. the shorter the delivery period the better the delivery is likely to be. I see March’ 2015 as the possible target with the 62 DRM’s as the delivery agents for such an exercise.