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Tiruchi MP Durai Vaiko has urged the Ministry of Railways to allot funds for relaying decades-old roads successful Railway Colony successful Tiruchi.
The Ministry has astir 400 hectares astatine Golden Rock (Ponmalai), wherever the Golden Rock Railway Workshop that was established successful 1928 and Ponmalai Railway Station are located. The Railway Colony, which came into being after the constitution of the workshop, acts arsenic a residential colony to location the unit members of the workshop. A ample fig of employees reside successful Railway Colony.
Similarly, hundreds of people reside in areas specified arsenic Melakalkandarkottai, Ponmalaipatti, Ambikapuram, Ex-servicemen colony and Subramaniapuram. They person to commute on the roads situated astir Railway Colony. Residents of Melakalkandarkottai, Ponmalaipatti and different peripheries of the colony, employees of Golden Rock Railway Workshop and passengers visiting the Golden Rock Railway Station besides usage the roads on the colony.
However, astir of the roads successful the colony are successful deplorable condition, posing challenges to motorists. It is alleged that though a fig of representations were fixed to the authorities of Tiruchi Railway Division, which controls the Railway Colony, successful the past, nary enactment was taken to relay the roads but for a few.
Acting connected the representations, Mr Durai Vaiko told The Hindu that astir roads were laid 15-20 years ago. They were successful atrocious information and not motorable. It was on the roads successful Railway Colony that employees of the workshop, railway staff, radical surviving successful the peripheries of the colony travelled. There was an urgent request to relay each roads successful the colony. Since Tiruchi Corporation oregon different authorities departments could not transportation retired works successful lands belonging to the Ministry of Railways, Southern Railway had to relay the roads. He had brought the contented to the announcement of the Divisional Railway Manager successful Tiruchi and officials of Southern Railway successful Chennai.
The MP added that helium would conscionable the officials of Southern Railway shortly. He would also conscionable the Union Railway Minister successful New Delhi, seeking his involution to lick the long-pending contented and allot capable funds for relaying the roads.
