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MMTS phase-II on speed track

Staff Reporter

At your service: SCR General Manager M.S. Jayanth interacting with MMTS commuters on Tuesday.

HYDERABAD: Here is some good news for MMTS travellers. The South Central Railway General Manager, M.S. Jayanth, said efforts were on to speed up the phase II works, besides introducing GPRS facility in MMTS trains and Automatic Ticket dispensing counters at all MMTS stations shortly.

Interacting with commuters on board a MMTS train from Secunderabad railway station to Hi-Tec City on Tuesday, he said phase II works would be taken up in three stages, including land acquisition, upgrading rolling stock and improving passenger amenities at stations.

The first phase of the project too would be augmented with the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) which responded positively to supply the pending coaches by the first quarter of next year (April) so that the coaches to each train can be increased from six to nine.

The GPRS facility would reduce waiting time for passengers as all details including arrival of a train and its location on a particular route would be available in the trains and stations. A trial run of the GPRS facility at Hi-Tec City and Begumpet would be taken up by this month-end.

For greater passenger convenience, automatic ticket dispensing counters will be opened at all stations soon while smart cards too are on the anvil.

With a minimum security deposit, passengers can swipe the cards and take tickets from these machines, said Mr. Jayanth.

Time table released

Vijayaraghavan, a representative of MMTS Travellers Group, complained that exorbitant parking charges were being collected at the stations while some stations lacked adequate parking facilities. Others brought to his notice, the nuisance created by miscreants at Hafeezpet, Borabanda and Fatehnagar stations besides inadequate public toilets.

The SCR General Manager assured to look into the matters. He also released the pocket size MMTS trains time table priced at Rs. 5.

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