New Delhi: Indian Railways has spent a whopping Rs 10 crore in a year to get rid of rats at Delhi stations.
Irritated over the menace of rats in large railways stations such as New Delhi, Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin and Sarai Rohila, authorities had chalked out a plan of Rs 10 crore, hiking its Rs 6 crore expenditure of previous year.
According to a report published in Navbharat Times, a senior official of Delhi Division confirmed the news saying, a new private company has been awarded the tender to exterminate cockroaches and rats at the stations.
Rats are real problem for Railways; as Union Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha said in a written reply in Lok Sabha earlier this year, "We have been receiving complaints with regard to its presence in train coaches and on stations."
The most affected areas at the stations are railway tracks and cargo areas. A maze of rat holes renders the earth beneath the tracks highly unstable posing a danger for the operations of trains.
Recently in Jharkhand's Palamu district, the rats caused a derailment after they dug holes below the railway tracks.
The rodents also destroy cargos worth of crores of rupees every year at the railway godowns.
In the trains, coaches are also facing the rat menace. The most affected in train coaches are pantry cars raising a doubt on hygiene of the food cooked.
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