India, Nov. 22 -- The Central Railway's two-month long cleanliness drive has churned out over 19 million kg of office scrap freeing up nearly 74,876 sq.ft of cluttered space and earning the railways Rs.5.98 crore.

To address the heaps of discarded files and clutter at the heritage building of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and other railway office spaces, CR authorities launched a drive, cleaning up 1,943 offices and 2,565 sites that include stations, foot-over-bridges, platforms and other areas. "We have disposed of over 19 million kg of scrap," said a CR official.

By selling off the scrap material-2,800 office files, e-waste, old machines, computers, furniture and fixtures, among other things-from more than 1,900 offices, the CR...