Mumbai, 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-the CR has made Rs.5.98 crore in revenue. "This shows that rail authorities are being lethargic in taking care of their own offices. The quantum of e-waste and old files generated is evident to show how untidy the government offices are," said Subhash Gupta, president of Mumbai Yatri Sangh. CR authorities have extended this cleanliness drive at other railway stations and premises too. Every night, the rail staff use mechanised cleaning machines and jet sprays to clean platforms. "We conducted over 3,200 cleanliness campaigns across CR stations. One of the problems that our officers encountered was that some people threw the garbage cleaned by our staff back onto the rail premises," said another CR official. Railway union leaders said that rail administration should keep a check on the contractual staff engaged with cleanliness work, adding that the cleaning staff often ignored the smaller crevices and dirty spaces in the rail premises. However, the administration responded that their cleanliness work is properly monitored, documented, and even posted on social media....