Railway board grants 31 cr for patch doubling work by railgenie on 06 September, 2013 - 08:56 AM | ||
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railgenie | Railway board grants 31 cr for patch doubling work on 06 September, 2013 - 08:56 AM | |
GORAKHPUR: The Railway Board has granted Rs 31 crore more to NER for the completion of the patch doubling work.The work will be completed by November, 2013. Patch Doubling work has been completed in Lucknow Division of North Eastern Railway but the work is still to be completed at Varanasi division of NER due to insufficient fund.Talking to TOI, KK Atal, GM, NER, said, "Railway Board has accepted our proposal and granted Rs 31 crore more for the completion of patch doubling work. In lack of sufficient budget, the station yard remodeling work was being affected and was causing inconvenience to passengers so we provided fund for remodeling from budget of other departments which in turn hit the patch doubling work. With the board having granted Rs 31 crore the patch doubling work will be completed on time."The yard remodeling work at Gorakhpur railway station has been completed and the work of non-interlocking will be done from September 26 September to October 6. During this period of 11 days, 107 trails will be cancelled and around half-dozen trains will be diverted.Most of the trains will be run through nearby stations. The GM, NER, also reviewed the remodeling work and non-interlocking work and had a discussion about the difficulties of passengers with head of departments and senior officials.On the issue of unmanned crossing, KK Atal said, "We have conducted a survey of all unmanned crossings. The traffic on various crossing between Deoria and Bhatni of Varanasi division has increased in recent years. As the chances of accidents at heavy traffic bearing unmanned crossing are more, we'll make them manned soon. We are also making efforts to organize all unmanned railway crossings by 2015 and we're also running various awareness programs in this regard." There are total 2,421 unmanned railway crossings in all the three divisions of NER including Lucknow, Varanasi and Izzatnagar.On Wednesday, the GM also inspected the newly constructed platform parallel to platform number 2, concrete sleeper at platform number1 and construction work at platform number 8 and 9. Anup Kumar, DRM, NER, RV Singh, COM and Amit Singh, GM, secretary were also present at the occasion. |