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MYSORE: To serve railway passengers better and to avoid rush within the station, the railway department has joined hands with the police department. It opened a new pre-fixed autorickshaw counter near the main entrance of the station on Thursday. South Western Railways' divisional railway manager (Mysore division) Vinod Kumar did the honours.This is the second such counter, with the first being already in place in the station.Speaking to TOI, SWR senior divisional commercial manager (Mysore division) Anup Dayanad Sadhu said thousands of passengers enter and exit the station daily, and the new counter helps ease rush at the first counter. One more pre-fixed counter will be opened at the other entrance of the station on KRS Road.The new counter has one computer working round the clock, with six persons manning the counter in different shifts.A CCTV camera has been installed at the counter to monitor instances of luggage misplacement, stealing of baggages, and movement of autorickshaws, said ACP (traffic) Shankaregowda.