‘Kannada-speaking staff should be posted at front desk, ticket counters at railway stations in Mangaluru’

Union Minister of State for Railways V. Somanna connected Saturday directed Southern Railway officials to station Kannada-speaking railway unit astatine the ticketing counters and the beforehand desks astatine the Mangaluru Central and Mangaluru Junction railway stations.

During the sojourn to Mangaluru Junction Railway Station, Capt. Brijesh Chowta, Dakshina Kannada MP, said Kannada-speaking unit are not being posted astatine the summons counters astatine the 2 stations. While directing Southern Railway Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Madhukar Roat to instrumentality the indispensable steps, Mr. Somanna called the Mangaluru Junction summons antagonistic in-charge and said that having Kannada-speaking unit would assistance successful processing a bully enslaved betwixt the unit and the commuters.

While looking astatine the caller integer luggage locker installation astatine the Mangaluru Junction Railway Station, Mr. Somanna recovered the complaint of ₹120 (for keeping the luggage) connected the higher side. “How tin you expect radical to usage it with specified precocious charges. Reduce the complaint to a nominal magnitude of ₹10 oregon ₹20, which volition beryllium viable for railway commuters,” helium said.

Mr. Somanna had a little enactment with the proprietor of the ‘One Nation One Product’ ready-made cloth stall located connected Platform No. 1 of the station.

The Minister expressed his displeasure implicit the deficiency of initiatives by Southern Railway, Konkan Railway, and South Western Railway successful the improvement of railway infrastructure and facilities successful the Mangaluru region. “It’s the deficiency of it that makes radical request the instauration of a caller Mangaluru division,” helium told the officials.

Talking to reporters aft taking portion successful a relation organised by erstwhile Minister Krishna J. Palemar, Mr. Somanna said the mode Siddaramaiah’s authorities is operating successful the State indicates a dysfunctional administration. The authorities does not person immoderate intent and is not moving alongside the Centre successful taking guardant improvement initiatives, helium alleged.