Swachh Rail Mission brand ambassador Bindeshwar Pathak during the closing ceremony of an initiative to beautify Madhubani Railway Station where Mithila artists adorned the walls of the station with Madhubani paintings, in Bihar's Madhubani district. Photo Credit: IANS Swachh Rail Mission brand ambassador Bindeshwar Pathak during the closing ceremony of an initiative to beautify Madhubani Railway Station where Mithila artists adorned the walls of the station with Madhubani paintings, in Bihar's Madhubani district.

Madhubani: Once looked upon as one of the dirtiest railway stations in India, Madhubani in Bihar now sports a completely different look with Mithila paintings adorning its walls. The rich artistic and cultural legacy of Madhubani region has contributed its transformation to one of the cleanest stations in the country.

Mithila paintings are done with fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens and matchsticks. Artists use natural dyes and pigments to make geometrical patterns. Bindeshwar Pathak, brand ambassador of the Rail Swacch Mission of the Indian Railways and founder of Sulabh International, on Saturday tagged Madhubani as "the cleanest station of the country".

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Divisional Railway Manager Samastipur R.K. Jain said it was a unique initiative of the Indian Railways to experiment with local artists voluntarily painting the works in a short span of two months.

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More than 225 artists, 80 percent of them women, volunteered to paint the station free of cost.

"It is a kind of world record as the total wall area of more than 14,000 sq ft has been fully painted with various themes under traditional Mithila painting style, said Gannath Mishra, a senior railway official, who has supervised the project.

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