Indian Railways runs on us

Indian Railways which were introduced to India way back in 1857, is today one of the largest and busiest networks in the world, transporting just under five billion passengers and almost 350 million tonnes of freight annually.

However, the image that often comes to our mind when Indian Railways is mentioned is that of coaches having stains of 'paan', peels of fruits and crumpled newspapers lying on the ground and stench coming from toilets.

This image is all set to change as the Indian Railways has lanunched various initiatives to combat this lack of sanitization and cleanliness.

One of the major steps towards this was to outsource the cleaning coaches, depots and stations. BVG responded to this opportunity.

With its pedigree, BVG India received a contract from the Indian Railway and was one of the foremost companies to introduce mechanised cleaning of coaches in 2004. It started with modest beginning by cleaning coaches in a day at the Puri Station in the state of Orrisa. Hi-Technology equipment and cleaning chemicals were sourced from institutional cleaning major. Training were imparted to personnel's for cleaning the trains in just 15 minutes.

Post the success of this assignment, BVG bagged contracts to clean coaches at the Chennai station, Vijayawada junction (South India's Largest Railway junction) and Bhubhneshwar station.

Today BVG cleans 250 coaches a day for many railways departments in India.

With 216,717 wagons, 39, 936 coaches and 7,339 locomotives owned by the Indian Railways, we see this service offering as a mojor "Growth engine".