Guwahati: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has inaugurated a state-of-the-art laundry care centre in Guwahati to enhance passenger comfort.
This facility is designed to handle a massive volume of 32,000 bedrolls daily, guaranteeing passengers a consistently hygienic and comfortable travel experience with clean, high-quality linen. This facility guarantees clean and fresh bedrolls, blankets, and pillow covers.
The state-of-the-art laundry is a tunnel-based system with numerous features, including the capability to handle large volumes of linen.
NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer, Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, said, “The capacity of this new boot laundry care centre is 32,000 bedrolls per day. This new facility can handle large volumes of linen while optimizing resources like water, power, steam, and chemicals. The automated system also facilitates seamless transfer between cleaning stages, ensuring high efficiency and quality.”
Meanwhile, North Western Railway has also introduced a modern linen washing system. Using an automatic washing plant in Jaipur, which has a current capacity of 56 tonnes, it is providing hygienic and good-quality linen to all passengers.
Captain Shashi Kiran, Chief Public Relations Officer of NWR, said “We clean, wash, and calendar the linen to meet quality standards before supplying it to passengers. Plans are underway to expand the facility further to cater to increasing demands from other passenger trains.”
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Indian Railways has prioritized passenger comfort by providing clean, hygienic, and high-quality linen to all passengers travelling in air-conditioned (AC) sleeper classes.
According to Indian Railways officials, all linen used during train journeys undergoes thorough cleaning in modern, mechanized laundries equipped with the latest technology. The linen is processed to ensure passengers have a pleasant travel experience.
