Indian Railways - A menace to Public Health

Authors

  • Harsh Rajvanshi Manipal University

Abstract

The Indian railways are the largest rail network in the world. While the network is grand and magnificent, it violates the basic fundamental laws and rights of sanitation and environmental pollution. The waste generated by the travelling passengers in these trains is released on the open tracks without any treatment in its actual form. This is done as the train moves along its course making it a vehicle for spread of human waste all around the geography. This leads spread of disease and infection to the populations living closer to the tracks and distant metastasis of the microbes especially during the rainy season. 

Author Biography

Harsh Rajvanshi, Manipal University

Post Graduate Scholar (M.P.H) - Department of Public Health, Manipal University

References

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016)

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Published

2016-11-29

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Rajvanshi, H. (2016). Indian Railways - A menace to Public Health. Global Health: Annual Review, 1(2). Retrieved from https://journals.mcmaster.ca/ghar/article/view/1307

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016): Global Health: Annual Review, Issue 2

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Opinion Editorial

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