The suburban rail network and the Indian Railways got its first air-conditioned toilet, also termed &lsquo;deluxe AC toilet&rsquo; at Thane station on the Central Railway (CR) on Saturday.
<img title="Indian Railways gets its first AC toilet at Thane station" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/nov/thane-ac-toilet.jpg" alt="Indian Railways gets its first AC toilet at Thane station" /> Pic/Tanvi Shinde
The Rs 35-lakh toilet has 28 urinals and four flush toilets facilities in the gents&rsquo; section, and four flush toilets for women.
It has separate facilities for the differently-abled, too. This is the first toilet, on rail premises, to charge people R1 for using urinals and Rs 5 for flush toilets.
Thane station sees a daily average footfall of seven lakh people and presently has three other toilet blocks.
The toilet will be maintained by a private operator who has advertising rights to earn revenue.
CR authorities will construct more such deluxe AC toilets at other stations depending on the demand.

The suburban rail network and the Indian Railways got its first air-conditioned toilet, also termed &lsquo;deluxe AC toilet&rsquo; at Thane station on the Central Railway (CR) on Saturday

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