Milk - Railway Station - Eng
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00:00The next time you have a cup of tea at a railway station, beware, what you take to be tea could
00:07be deadly concoction of chemicals.
00:09Student earns his daily bread selling tea at the Nagraja railway station.
00:14But like many others, he doesn't use milk, but a chemical called fevicryl.
00:21We make a chemical for 15 rupees and 20 litres of milk is made from it.
00:25We use it for 5-6 days.
00:30The economics of it is fairly simple.
00:32Surendra sells tea worth rupees 200 a day.
00:35And if he uses this chemical instead of real milk, he can make a cool coffee of up to rupees 150.
00:42The tea sellers have their own justification for taking this dangerous route to earn money.
00:48It costs 100 rupees to buy 5 litres of milk.
00:50In a day, it costs 100 rupees.
00:53And it costs 100 rupees to buy sugar and tea.
00:57So if we sell 200 rupees a day, what will the kids eat?
01:01What we often sip and enjoy at stations, in these cups and coolers, may be synthetic tea.
01:06But despite this possibility, millions consume it every day.
01:10The customers may not like the taste, but say they have no other option.
01:14It doesn't taste like milk, but it tastes like tea.
01:19Experts say consuming this synthetic tea could lead to long-term health problems.
01:24Yet the selling of the slope water has been going on for years.
01:27While railway authorities privately admit they are aware of the problem,
01:31they have so far done little to stop it.
01:34With Om Prakash Singh in Aurangabad, Prabhakar.