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Tired of repeatedly cleaning up paan (betel) stains on the white walls of the Old Delhi railway station, officials have decided to paint portions of the wall in red to camouflage paan stains.
This not the only initiative taken by the officials to clean the station near Red Fort, who have started a penalty drive against littering and smoking with fines of up to ₹500.
As a result, over ₹1 lakh has been collected in just 22 days this month, from about 1,000 cases of littering (almost ₹98,000) and 38 cases of smoking (₹7,600), station manager Virendra Kumar told BusinessLine .
The station, whose façade is already painted in red and white and has an old world charm, sees on average about two lakh passengers a day during peak season and one lakh passengers during the rest of the year.
Since January, the station has collected some ₹5.36 lakh.
Many officials rue the comparison with the Delhi Metro stations that are much cleaner, pointing out it does not allow people to eat, sleep and live in the stations.
The railway station has also started a drive under which some seven-eight truck loads of waste have been removed to Ghazipur. A lot of waste was removed using two flat wagons, said Additional Divisional Railway Manager Dimpy Garg, adding that “we are going to extend the drive.”
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