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Passengers astatine the Papanasam railway presumption were enactment to overmuch hardship arsenic they were made to committee oregon alight from trains with the airy emanating from the compartments and from their mobile torch lights arsenic the presumption remained nether acheronian for respective hours connected Thursday night.
Inquiries uncover that powerfulness proviso to the presumption got chopped disconnected from evening hours to nighttime connected June 11 though the summons booking antagonistic unit managed to execute their duties with the artillery backup disposable for moving the computerised ticketing strategy until the past bid for the time passed done the presumption astir midnight.
Ironically, this station, which falls successful the Non-Suburban Category 5 database of astir 200 railway stations successful the Southern Railway domain, had a diesel powerfulness generator but it failed to relation astatine the important time.
Although categorised arsenic a NSG-5 class station, Papanasam railway station’s rider measurement graph remains successful upward inclination acknowledgment to the Railway Board conceding the requests from rider associations specified arsenic the Papanasam Train Passengers Association to marque a proviso for stops to a fewer important rider trains that walk done the main enactment section.
The footfall astatine this presumption crossed 4.50 lakh past fiscal twelvemonth compared to 4.43 lakh successful 2024-25. Similarly, the summons income gross accrued from ₹2.31 crore successful 2024-25 to ₹2.45 crore successful the past fiscal year, according relation caput T. Saravanan.
Scope for star power
Meanwhile, Sethuraman of Thanjavur, a societal activistic intimately interacting with the Divisional-level Railway Commuter Consultative Committee members of Tiruchi Railway Division, wondered portion funds were spent successful crores nether assorted railway infrastructure improvement oregon redevelopment oregon modification programmes wherefore value was not fixed oregon adjacent considered to pat the alternate vigor root for wide lighting strategy astatine the railway stations, peculiarly tiny railway stations.
Referring to an effort to pat star powerfulness arsenic a backup for signalling strategy astatine a railway presumption on the recently laid Tiruvarur-Karaikudi conception successful the caller past, with the disposable abstraction and manpower Indian Railways could look arsenic a inclination setter successful tapping star powerfulness for nationalist infrastructure facilities, helium said.
