The Ambala division of the Northern Railways has set up its first laundry unit

The Ambala division of the Northern Railways has set up its first laundry unit

Ambala div sets up  first laundry service

Armed with a one-tonne machine capable of washing, ironing and steaming, the laundry set up in Chandigarh Railway Station is a first in Ambala division.

The Ambala division of the Northern Railways has set up its first laundry unit in Chandigarh. This will help the railways to wash more than 8,000 bedsheets in a single day. Other than the bedsheets, the railways can now also wash blankets, and towels of its own- which were earlier done by an outsourced company.

Armed with a one-tonne machine capable of washing, ironing and steaming, the laundry set up in Chandigarh Railway Station is a first in Ambala division. “This is a mechanized machine. We have installed two washing machines of 100 kg and 50 kg each.

Both of them have a capacity to wash 350 bed sheets in an hour,” said a railways official, adding that such machines have earlier been installed in Lucknow and Jabalpur.

Source:Indian Express