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Infrastructure works inspected

Tuticorin: The Commissioner of Railway Safety (Bangalore circle), K.J.S. Naidu, along with top officials of the Southern Railway (Madurai division) reviewed safety aspects and ongoing infrastructure development works at the Tuticorin Railway Station on Wednesday.

Hemant Kumar, Divisional Manager, Southern Railway (Madurai Division), said that the division would be soon making a proposal to the Railway Board to establish ‘cement concrete aprons’ beneath the sleepers at tracks laid at all the platforms in the Tuticorin station.

Presently, gravels were laid in the gaps between the sleepers, which allow night soil and other waste to stagnate in them, emanating foul smell.

“The conversion would help us to wash away the debris and human wastes easily and to maintain high level of hygiene at the station,” he said.

As regards the request from the industrialists and passenger associations for an increase in number of coaches in the Pearl City Express train (Tuticorin to Chennai Egmore), he said that the division plans to increase the coaches from 18 to 21, once the ongoing pit-lane work at the Tuticorin station was completed.

Mr. Kumar said that reservation tickets issued by means of Passenger Reservation System (PRS) would be distributed from a new area at the station shortly to avoid congestion in the entrance hall. Now, reservation tickets and unreserved/current tickets were issued from a single block having two counters, situated at the entrance hall of the station building.

He said that as part of beautification, entrance to the Tuticorin station would be widened and facilities for double- lane road traffic would be established.

Mr. Kumar said that plans are in the offing to establish an automated teller machine on a six square metres space at Tuticorin Station shortly to qualitatively upgrade the profile of passenger amenities.

“Gradually a ticket kiosk too would be set up adjacent to the ATM on an area of 1.5 square metre,” he added.

V. Narayanan, senior divisional commercial manager, and I. Jayakumar, senior divisional operations manager, both of Madurai division, were present.

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