Tiruchi Railway Division plans to relay the roads in Railway Colony

Tiruchi Railway Division plans to relay the roads successful the Railway Colony, which are successful deplorable condition, causing terrible hardship to employees of Golden Rock Railway Workshop and commuters of assorted residential areas.

Hundreds of radical reside successful areas specified arsenic Mela Kalkandarkottai, Railway Colony, Ponmalaipatti, Ambikapuram, Ex-servicemen Colony, Subramaniapuram, and others. They person to question connected the roads astir the Railway Colony that extends for astir 400 hectares owned by the Indian Railways. In summation to the radical who reside successful Mela Kalkandarkottai, Ponmalaipatti, and different peripheries of the Railway Colony, the employees of Golden Rock Railway Workshop and the passengers visiting the Golden Rock Railway Station usage these roads. The roads, good connected with the unit quarters of Golden Rock Workshop, railway station, railway hospital, and others, are successful a atrocious condition, making it hard adjacent for two-wheeler riders. Except for a few, astir roads were laid much than 15 years to 20 years ago. No due attraction oregon repair enactment was taken up for long, thereby making driving connected the roads backmost breaking, and a nightmare for drivers.

Acting connected reports and petitions from the railway employees and the commuters, Balak Ram Negi, Divisional Railway Manager, visited the Railway Colony that houses the Golden Rock Railway Station, Railway Hospital, unit quarters, and others and took banal of the information of the roads. The officials explained to him astir the roads, which are nether the power of the Tiruchi Railway Division. He sought details connected the roads and the repair and attraction works carried out.

Sources told The Hindu that it had been decided to relay each important roads successful the Railway Colony and different attack roads to the Southern Railway facilities and offices. A list, highlighting important roads, had been drawn. Preparation of estimation for the task was nether way. As per the preliminary estimate, it would outgo ₹2 crore for relaying important roads. Steps were nether mode to interval tenders shortly.