with the aim to prevent litterbugs from making the railway stations dirty cidco started an initiative to ensure that the commuters do not litter on platforms and forecourts urchins and drunks have made it their permanent home and litter the area the budget includes maintaining cleanliness in public toilets cleaning sewage regulating water supply and keeping gardens garbagefree cidco has spent around rs 2 lakh on dustbins at each railway station officials said that this was a dedicated effort and had sanctioned a budget to ensure that the stations stay clean something must be done about that as well said priyadarshini rathore engineering student residents are happy about the development but lamented that much more than a face lift was needed to truly beautify the stations the subway connecting belpada to kharghar railway station comes under cidcos railway project and hence we ensured that its beautification was done the bins are kept at short distances so commuters entering and exiting the railway stations do not litter the premises kajale added i use kharghar subway everyday to reach my college in belpada navi mumbai the subway from belpada to reach kharghar railway station has been beautified with tile paintings while around rs 25 lakhs was spent on maintenance of the station premises out of the 14 railway stations under cidcos jurisdiction the initiative was taken at kharghar khandeshwar and mansarovar stations for the very purpose an annual maintenance contract has been given on tender basis said bharat kajale assistant executive engineer cidco the tile painting initiative is a good idea but the commuters spit on walls and the floor cidco in its drive has also decided to coordinate with pwd to ensure that the underpasses are kept clean but as the subway was built by pwd they did the beautification part too said pradeep dahake superintendent engineer cidco the aim is to instill a sense of moral responsibility amongst citizens to keep public places clean accordingly the town planning body installed dustbins on stations such as kharghar khandeshwar and mansarovar