RailEnquiry

Jalandhar:
The new diesel multiple unit (DMU) train being run between Hoshiarpur and Ferozepur via Jalandhar is full of dirt and immediately requires cleaning. Thanks to the railway staff which probably forgets to clean this train probably since its launch last month.A city resident, Jitendra Sharma of the Daulatpuri locality, who often travels in this train, said, “Dirt, including empty water bottles, cigarette packets, biscuits packets, namkeen packets and so on, are lying on the floor of each of the eight coaches of this train.”Primarily holding passengers responsible for the dirt because of not dumping the garbage in the bins, another traveller Inder Singh of Kalia Colony also blamed the railways for not cleaning the train at regular intervals.Stating that the dirt should be removed and the coaches of this train should be cleaned regularly, they said, “The passengers travelling in this train have named it as “kure wali train” (garbage train) as the garbage here creating a lot of inconvenience to them.”Interestingly, the DMU train was launched on March 16. The train runs from Hoshiarpur at 6.30 am and reaches Ferozepur at 11.50 am, after leaving from Jalandhar at 7.50 am. After that it starts from Ferozepur to reach Hoshiarpur at 4.25 pm after arriving at Jalandhar at 1.50 pm and departing from this railway station at 3 pm. Jalandhar City railway station superintendent (SS) Ashok Kumar admitted that the DMU train was full of garbage.

At the same time, he said, “As SS, his duty was to keep the entire city railway station clean and he was performing his duty well. As far as cleanliness in the DMU train was concerned, the DMU shed was responsible for that and they had given the work of its cleanliness to some contractor, who could throw more light on that."