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Four deep borewells to be sunk, purified water for railway stations near Paalur New ticket counter, first class passenger waiting room at Paranur Railway Station KANCHEEPURAM: The Union Railway Ministry will set up a Rs.10-crore drinking water bottling plant in the Palar river basin in Kancheepuram district, according to Union Minister of State for Railways R. Velu. Talking to reporters at the proposed bottling plant site near the Paalur Railway Station on Friday, the Minister said the project would be implemented through the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, which was running budget hotels and railway canteens in various parts of the country. The plant would set up on the railway land measuring 9000 sq. meter near the Paalur station on the Kancheepuram-Chengalpattu Road. Four deep borewells would be sunk to tap 1.20 lakh litres of water daily and purified water would be made available at the railway stations within 300 km radius from Paalur. Two such bottling plants have already been set up in Bihar and Delhi each, he said, adding that drinking water stored in one-litre use-and-throw bottles was sold at Rs.10 a bottle. Stating that the Tamil Nadu Government had already given its consent and around Rs.4 crore would be spent on civil works at the plant site, Mr. Velu expressed the hope that commercial production would begin from October, 2008. As for the proposed railway lines to provide a circular route connecting Chennai-Sriperumpudur-Oragadam-Vandalur-Chennai and Chennai-Sriperumpudur-Kancheepuram, the Minister said the railways had assessed the viability of the project by conducting a meeting of stakeholders or prospective beneficiaries. It was up to the State Government to convene a meeting to take a decision on features such as routes and availability of land required for the project, he added. Earlier, declaring open the Paranur Railway Station near Chengalpattu, which has been spruced up with a new ticket counter and first class passenger waiting room at the cost of Rs.1.50 crore, Mr. Velu thanked the Mahindra World City (MWC) management for executing the project with its own funds. Addressing a function on the MWC premises near the railway station, the Minister said the railways had recorded a turnaround in its financial position, making the most of private-public partnership projects such as the Paranur station facelift project. It had also mopped up Rs.9000-crore excess revenue, thanks to the public-private partnership (PPP) schemes such as ‘own your wagon’ and ‘invest in wagon’ schemes. A warehousing project was successfully implemented in Bangalore under the PPP module, he added. As far as the Paranur station was concerned, only four trains used to halt at this station before the special economic zone was set up here. Now, 64 electric multiple unit (EMU) trains halt for a minute at this station for the benefit of commuters going from and to the MWC, he pointed out. The Divisional Railway Manager, Chennai, Man Singh, said the average monthly revenue from this station, which was around Rs.1.30 lakh last year, had increased to Rs.1.95 lakh a this year. Paranur would be converted into a regular station if passenger traffic to and from this station increased in the near future, he added. The Chairman, MWC, N. Vahul, thanked the railways for having given the organisation an opportunity to associate itself in the Southern Railway’s exercise of improving passenger amenities in railway stations. He called upon the railway authorities to augment the number of EMU services for the benefit of MWC workers from suburban areas of Chennai. Chengalpattu MLA K. Arumugham, Tiruporur MLA D. Moorthy and MWC Executive Director Arun Nanda participated in the function.
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