Raipur Railway Station to get Water Recycling Plant

Chhattisgarh would get one ‘Water Recycling Plant’ (WRP) at Raipur Railway Station among cities in 14 other states where the project is proposed to be taken up by the Union Ministry of Railways, officials informed.The other States where WRPs would be established are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

WRPs are already functioning at 29 major water consumption centres on Indian Railways. In addition, 32 railway stations handling large volume of passenger traffic and falling under ‘A-1’ & ‘A’ category have been identified during the current financial year for provision of WRPs duly considering techno-economic viability, out of which works of provision of WRPs at 24 stations have already been sanctioned, officials stated.