Indian Railways has started Onboard House keeping Service (OBHS) in 60 express trains in order to provide special facilities to the passengers. Presently around 570 train pairs are provided with On Board Housekeeping Services (OBHS) facilities across Indian Railways.
OBHS is being provided on identified Mail/Express trains satisfying laid down parameters such as journey time/period, coach type etc. Zonal Railways identify additional trains for provision of OBHS scheme, as per requirements, which is an ongoing process.
In this facility, passengers will be able to get their dirty coaches cleaned at any time. North Eastern Railway’s Gorakhpur, Chhapra, Banaras, Mau, Lucknow are now being ready and set to go with the new feature. On the Other Hand, Southern Railways has already this feature on 11 trains and are ready to prepare this feature on more 50 to 60 trains which are present-in day tarins or long-distance trains.
Some information about OBHS
During the journey in the train, if one sees dirt on the coach, then just by sending an SMS, one will get a line of Sweepers. You might think that this is a joke, but this is the reality. The Indian Railways has started On-Board House keeping Service (OBHS). Under this the coach can be cleaned by calling the sweeper at any time in the tarin by SMS to 58888.
Automatic Coach Washing Plant
According to Chief Public Relations Officer Pankaj Kumar Singh, an Automatic coach has been installed at Banaras Coaching Depot for cleaning the train. There is also a plan to set up of Automatic Coach Washing Plants at Chapra, Aurihar, Gomtinagar, and kaltarbuckganj. Mechanized coach cleaning has been arranged for quality cleaning in 15 coaching depots including Gorakhpur, Aishbagh, Gomtinagar, Banaras, Chhapra, Ballia, Mau, Azamgarh, Varanasi City, Ghazipur City, Kathgodam, Kasganj, Ramnagar, Lalkuan, Tanakpur. Mechanized laundry is working at total 07 stations including Gorakhpur, Aishbagh, Kathgodam, Lalkuan, Banaras, Mau and Chhapra to provide clean bed linen to the passengers.
