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Article: IIT Kanpur scientists develop green toilets for trains.
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- February 27, 2008
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IIT Kanpur scientists develop green toilets for trains
Kanpur, Feb 29 (PTI) A group of IIT Kanpur scientists has developed an eco-friendly discharge system as Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav proposed Green Toilets in all trains in the 2008-2009 Railway Budget.
IIT Kanpur was entrusted in 2005 by Technology Mission on Railway Safety to develop an eco-friendly toilets to avoid pollution and stop rails getting rusted.
N S Vyas, co-ordinator, Technology Mission on Railway Safety and professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT, told PTI that IIT has handed over the system worth two crore to the Railways and it was being tried in one ...