‘TOTAL CLEANLINESS SURVEY’ OF THE RAILWAYS

About: 

• Objective: Aim of the first-ever ‘Total Cleanliness Survey’ of the Railways was to assess the progress of the ‘Swachh Rail-Swachh Bharat’ mission and promote healthy competition among trains. 
  
  
• Conducted by: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). 
  
  
• Methodology: A total of 15,360 passengers from 16 zones, took part in the survey covering 209 trains. In this, IRCTC asked passengers about toilets, linen, housekeeping to rank trains. 
  
  

Results: 

• ‘Premium’ category trains: This category included the Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto, Tejas and Gatiman. 
  • North Western Railway (NWR) topped the zonal rankings in this category, while South Central Railway finished at the bottom. 
    
    
  • Out of the Rajdhanis surveyed, the Mumbai Rajdhani was the cleanest. Among Shatabdi trains, the Pune-Secunderabad Shatabdi was the cleanest. 
    
    
  
  
  
• ‘Other than Premium’ category’ trains: This category included Sampark Kranti, Intercity, Jan Shatabdi and other Mail and Express trains. 
  • Southern Railway topped the Zonal Rankings in this category, while the East Central Railway was the dirtiest. 
    
    
  • The Kochuveli-Chandigarh Sampark Kranti was the cleanest among the Sampark Kranti trains. The KSR Bengalaru-Ernakulam train topped among Intercity services.