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The Tiruchi Railway Division has undertaken respective infrastructure improvements aimed astatine enhancing information and rider convenience crossed large stations successful its jurisdiction.
The railway part is constructing 18 caller ft implicit bridges (FOBs), including 5 FOBs with a width of six metres astatine Ariyalur, Vriddhachalam, Villupuram, Mayiladuthurai and Kumbakonam, to cater to rider unreserved successful the future, portion the remaining are of three-metre width, Divisional Railway Manager, Tiruchi, Balak Ram Negi said connected Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Balak Ram Negi said extended level upgradation works were being carried retired astatine 81 stations comprising 70 platforms, 5 extensions and 26 resurfacing works. The improvements were aimed astatine enhancing rider comfort, improving accessibility and ensuring safety.
Mr. Negi said the Tiruchi part operated a full of 16 pairs of peculiar explicit trains, constituting an wide of 116 trains, from October 1 to cater to the dense festival demand. In summation to peculiar trains, further coaches were attached to Uzhavan, Ananthapuri and Tiruchi-Thiruvananthapuram Intercity explicit trains to accommodate the accrued rider flow.
During the play from October 1, a full fig of 21,68,395 passengers had travelled crossed Tiruchi division, registering a important summation arsenic compared to the corresponding play of past year. The part catered to 16,63,296 passengers successful the unreserved summons conception and 5,05,099 passengers successful the reserved summons conception during the festival season.
A War Room was constituted astatine Tiruchi part to relation circular the timepiece to be to immoderate unforeseen circumstances arising retired of festival unreserved and existent show of real-time monitoring of large stations done CCTV cameras was done by a squad of commercialized and Railway Protection Force staff. Hourly pictures of trains, coaches and stations were taken and posted by the tract unit successful the warfare country group, which enabled decisions regarding summons issuance and effectual assemblage power astatine consequent stations, helium said.
In bid to conscionable the surge successful demand, further summons counters were opened astatine cardinal stations astatine Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, Mayiladuthurai, Villupuram, Tiruvannamalai, Mannargudi and Vriddhachalam during the festival season.
In presumption of dense rain, patrolling had been enforced successful the division. The part had deputed watchmen to show h2o logging successful identified constricted usage subways, oregon wherever it was anticipated. Vulnerable bridges were besides being monitored to guarantee information of passengers and bid operations, helium added.
