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For a close watch: Southern Railway General Manager Rakesh Chopra inaugurating security surveillance system at Madurai railway station on Thursday. MADURAI: As part of the exclusive freight corridor linking major ports, a survey for connecting Chennai with Mumbai and Kolkata has begun. Deloitte and Touche, an international consultancy firm, has been entrusted with the task of conducting the survey, Southern Railway General Manager Rakesh Chopra has said. Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, he said Public-Private Partnership projects were coming up in a big way. The Chennai Central and Tiruvananthapuram Central stations were set to become world-class in terms of passenger services and infrastructure. A dialogue was on between the Railway Ministry and the Government of Tamil Nadu on the feasibility of operating high speed trains between Chennai and Madurai, and Coimbatore. Southern Railway would take up doubling of the broad-gauge line between Chengalpattu and Villuppuram. The Madurai-Dindigul doubling was expected to be completed by June. As for the fall in punctuality of trains between Chennai and Madurai, he said track maintenance was now being mechanised to facilitate better speed. While minimising speed restrictions, the zone was planning to bring out the next timetable with “better punctuality.” Mr. Chopra said 1,300 km of electrification was over in the zone, and at least 100 km more would be completed in a couple of years. Though the zone had recorded a growth in passenger earnings, there was a slump in freight revenue. Lauding the landscaping in front of the Madurai station and modernisation of the passenger circulating area, he said the ‘Madurai model’ would be followed in other stations. The General Manager inaugurated the surveillance system of the Railway Protection Force. A control room for a closed circuit television network connected to 25 cameras installed at vantage points in the station was also opened. Divisional Railway Manager Hemant Kumar; Additional Divisional Railway Manager D.K. Nayak; Senior Divisional Commercial Manager L. Veeranarayanan; Divisional Signal and Telecommunications Engineer B. Srinivasulu; and Divisional Security Commissioner M. Suresh were present.
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