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LOHARDAGA: Keeping its promise of serving people's interest, the Lohardaga mines division of Hindalco Industries Limited provided cold drinking water facility at the railway station here.Assistant vice-president (mines) B K Jha, accompanied by senior company and railway officials, inaugurated the facility. Jha said, "More than 5,000 passengers travel by train. Passengers stand in long queues to collect water from the existing water points including the lone cold water tap. So we asked the railways for permission about three months back and completed another point of cold water with purifier," he said.Sweta Sahu, a passenger, said cold water was the need of the time and single source of the water at the station was a major problem. Now Hindalco's cold water system has come as a solution to the problem.The facility costs Rs 1.5 lakh. "Recently we provided the same kind of facility at Birsa Munda Agro Park in Gumla. Normal drinking water points are being provided at certain points on bauxite mines routes. Facilities have been provided at Ghaghra block, Bishunpur block while process was on for Kisko, Dhurwa More and Tisia," he added.