Kolkata: Ms. Archana Joshi, General Manager, South Eastern Railway inaugurated Water Recycling cum Effluent Treatment Plant at Santragachi and an Automatic Coach Washing Plant at Padmapukur, Shalimar on 07.04.2022. PK Mandal, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer Manoranjan Pradhan, Divisional Railway Manager Kharagpur and other senior officers were also present.
South Eastern Railway is known for its eco-friendly measures and the Water Recycling-cum-Effluent Treatment Plant at Santragachi is an addition to that list. The plant with a capacity of 100 KLD has been commissioned at a cost of Rs.69 lakh. The waste water generated after cleaning the coaches contains various chemical elements.
This Effluent Treatment Plant filters and recycles the polluted water and prepares it for reuse. Automatic Coach Washing Plant has been set up at Padmapukur Coaching Depot, Shalimar at a cost of Rs 1.68 crore. The plant is sensor based and can wash an entire train of 24 coaches in 7-8 minutes.
The washing process is fully automated and can be operated practically without any manpower. It is a highly cost effective method of using minimum water for washing the exterior of train coaches. Later the General Manager also inspected the construction works being done to develop Shalimar station as a full-fledged terminal of South Eastern Railway.