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Work on the proposed new road overbridge (ROB) at Viralimalai Road intersection near the Railway Junction in Tiruchi is set to takeoff in the next three to four months as the Highways Department finally called for tenders for the project recently.

The project has been in the planning stage for the past three to four years. The new multilevel ROB will replace the existing narrow bridge that has turned a traffic bottleneck in the city. The State government had sanctioned the ROB at an estimated cost of Rs.74 crore. The ROB would run 1.8 km. The existing bridge, leading from the Aristo Hotel Traffic Island and the Railway Junction, runs across railway lines leading to the Chennai Bypass and the Tiruchi-Madurai National Highway (NH 45-B).

It leads to the Central Bus Stand and the Tiruchi-Dindigul National Highway (NH 45). The narrow bridge has steep gradients and the police in recent years had to install multiple signals to regulate the traffic flow across the bridge.

Notwithstanding the traffic signals and the policemen on duty, chaos prevails on the bridge as vehicles pile up from different directions. To ease the congestion, the Projects Wing of the Highways Department came up with a plan to build a trestle and embankment bridge. The bridge has been designed taking into account the traffic volume at the Aristo Hotel Junction, the Railway Station Junction, and the Madurai highway Junctions. The ROB will have seven arms each with two to three lanes leading towards the Chennai Bypass, Aristo Hotel Junction, Dindigul Highway, Central Bus Stand, Railway junction, Madurai Highway, and a new road to be laid near the MSP camp.

The arms towards Chennai Bypass Road and Aristo Hotel junction would have three lanes each at the higher and lower levels. Service roads would be provided at the ground-level along all important arms.

Last week, the Highways Department had called for tenders for the first stage of the project under which a new three-lane ROB with five arms will be built at a cost of Rs. 44.28 crore adjacent to the existing bridge. “Traffic will continue to the allowed through the existing bridge until the structure was ready. In the next stage, the old bridge will be dismantled and a new bridge with two arms will be built in its place.

Work on the project will begin after the completion of the tendering process in the next three months,” said an officer in the Highways Department. The Railways will build the portion of the ROB across the tracks.

The Highways Department recently completed the demarcation of land to be acquired or alienated by different government agencies for the ROB and the district administration is actively pursuing the acquisition/alienation process.

About 4,600 square metres of private lands are to be acquired for the project apart from alienation/transfer of lands from Tamil Nadu Special Police Battalion grounds (about 18,500 square metres), the Railways (about 7,300 square metres), the P&T Quarters (about 350 square metres) and Defence lands (about 2,500 square metres). Since most of the land required is held by government agencies, land acquisition is not expected to pose much of a problem for the project, unlike several other ROB projects that ran into land acquisition delays in the city.

Work on the proposed new road overbridge (ROB) at Viralimalai Road intersection near the Railway Junction in Tiruchi is set to takeoff in the next three to four months as the Highways Department finally called for tenders for the project recently.

The project has been in the planning stage for the past three to four years. The new multilevel ROB will replace the existing narrow bridge that has turned a traffic bottleneck in the city. The State government had sanctioned the ROB at an estimated cost of Rs.74 crore. The ROB would run 1.8 km. The existing bridge, leading from the Aristo Hotel Traffic Island and the Railway Junction, runs across railway lines leading to the Chennai Bypass and the Tiruchi-Madurai National Highway (NH 45-B).

It leads to the Central Bus Stand and the Tiruchi-Dindigul National Highway (NH 45). The narrow bridge has steep gradients and the police in recent years had to install multiple signals to regulate the traffic flow across the bridge.

Notwithstanding the traffic signals and the policemen on duty, chaos prevails on the bridge as vehicles pile up from different directions. To ease the congestion, the Projects Wing of the Highways Department came up with a plan to build a trestle and embankment bridge. The bridge has been designed taking into account the traffic volume at the Aristo Hotel Junction, the Railway Station Junction, and the Madurai highway Junctions. The ROB will have seven arms each with two to three lanes leading towards the Chennai Bypass, Aristo Hotel Junction, Dindigul Highway, Central Bus Stand, Railway junction, Madurai Highway, and a new road to be laid near the MSP camp.

The arms towards Chennai Bypass Road and Aristo Hotel junction would have three lanes each at the higher and lower levels. Service roads would be provided at the ground-level along all important arms.

Last week, the Highways Department had called for tenders for the first stage of the project under which a new three-lane ROB with five arms will be built at a cost of Rs. 44.28 crore adjacent to the existing bridge. “Traffic will continue to the allowed through the existing bridge until the structure was ready. In the next stage, the old bridge will be dismantled and a new bridge with two arms will be built in its place.

Work on the project will begin after the completion of the tendering process in the next three months,” said an officer in the Highways Department. The Railways will build the portion of the ROB across the tracks.

The Highways Department recently completed the demarcation of land to be acquired or alienated by different government agencies for the ROB and the district administration is actively pursuing the acquisition/alienation process.

About 4,600 square metres of private lands are to be acquired for the project apart from alienation/transfer of lands from Tamil Nadu Special Police Battalion grounds (about 18,500 square metres), the Railways (about 7,300 square metres), the P&T Quarters (about 350 square metres) and Defence lands (about 2,500 square metres). Since most of the land required is held by government agencies, land acquisition is not expected to pose much of a problem for the project, unlike several other ROB projects that ran into land acquisition delays in the city.

Work on the proposed new road overbridge (ROB) at Viralimalai Road intersection near the Railway Junction in Tiruchi is set to takeoff in the next three to four months as the Highways Department finally called for tenders for the project recently.

The project has been in the planning stage for the past three to four years. The new multilevel ROB will replace the existing narrow bridge that has turned a traffic bottleneck in the city. The State government had sanctioned the ROB at an estimated cost of Rs.74 crore. The ROB would run 1.8 km.

The existing bridge, leading from the Aristo Hotel Traffic Island and the Railway Junction, runs across railway lines leading to the Chennai Bypass and the Tiruchi-Madurai National Highway (NH 45-B).

It leads to the Central Bus Stand and the Tiruchi-Dindigul National Highway (NH 45). The narrow bridge has steep gradients and the police in recent years had to install multiple signals to regulate the traffic flow across the bridge.

Notwithstanding the traffic signals and the policemen on duty, chaos prevails on the bridge as vehicles pile up from different directions. To ease the congestion, the Projects Wing of the Highways Department came up with a plan to build a trestle and embankment bridge. The bridge has been designed taking into account the traffic volume at the Aristo Hotel Junction, the Railway Station Junction, and the Madurai highway Junctions.

The ROB will have seven arms each with two to three lanes leading towards the Chennai Bypass, Aristo Hotel Junction, Dindigul Highway, Central Bus Stand, Railway junction, Madurai Highway, and a new road to be laid near the MSP camp. The arms towards Chennai Bypass Road and Aristo Hotel junction would have three lanes each at the higher and lower levels.

Service roads would be provided at the ground-level along all important arms. Last week, the Highways Department had called for tenders for the first stage of the project under which a new three-lane ROB with five arms will be built at a cost of Rs. 44.28 crore adjacent to the existing bridge.

“Traffic will continue to the allowed through the existing bridge until the structure was ready. In the next stage, the old bridge will be dismantled and a new bridge with two arms will be built in its place.

Work on the project will begin after the completion of the tendering process in the next three months,” said an officer in the Highways Department. The Railways will build the portion of the ROB across the tracks.

The Highways Department recently completed the demarcation of land to be acquired or alienated by different government agencies for the ROB and the district administration is actively pursuing the acquisition/alienation process.

About 4,600 square metres of private lands are to be acquired for the project apart from alienation/transfer of lands from Tamil Nadu Special Police Battalion grounds (about 18,500 square metres), the Railways (about 7,300 square metres), the P&T Quarters (about 350 square metres) and Defence lands (about 2,500 square metres). Since most of the land required is held by government agencies, land acquisition is not expected to pose much of a problem for the project.

Junior railway minister Adhir Chowdhury on Wednesday alleged that work on a Metro project was stalled as the Trinamul-run Calcutta Municipal Corporation was not taking any initiative to dismantle a defunct water pipeline under BT Road between Barrackpore and Baranagar.

The Rs 2,296-crore Barrackpore-Baranagar-Noapara Metro project, work on which started in end-2011, has made only 10 per cent progress because of the impasse over the pipeline.

The minister also referred to another hurdle — the government’s reluctance to evict around 500 families who are illegally occupying railway land near Dakshineswar, which falls between Noapara and Baranagar on the Metro stretch.

“Despite the railways having paid for the dismantling of the pipeline, the CMC has not done anything. Work can’t be started because of this,” Chowdhury said at a campaign rally for Congress candidates in the civic polls in Panihati, North 24-Parganas.

Asked about the minister’s allegation, mayor Sovan Chatterjee said the civic authorities have not yet been able to trace the pipe that once used to carry water from Palta to the Tallah reservoir.

“There is a lot of complication in dismantling the old pipeline. We don’t know its exact alignment as there are no records. We are trying our best to find out its exact alignment. But it is difficult to say how long it will take or when we can hand over the site for the Metro construction,” said Chatterjee.

According to an October 2011 memorandum of understanding between the CMC and the railways, the civic body was to dismantle the old pipeline and hand over the land over it, along BT Road, by August 2012.

The pipeline runs 12.5km from the Dunlop crossing till Barrackpore under BT Road, which is more than 63 per cent of the 19.7km Metro route.

Metro engineers said there were two parallel conduits of 60 inch and 42 inch diameter. “Unless these are dismantled, even piling work to raise pillars along the alignment can’t start,” said an official.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had in September 2012 inaugurated a Tallah-Palta pipeline that replaced the old one.

As for the eviction of the 500-odd families, the junior railway minister alleged the state government was not doing anything about it. “The state government is not extending any help to evict the encroachers,” he alleged.

A senior official of the state government said several meetings were held with the railway authorities on the issue but a solution proved elusive. “We are against forceful eviction. The families have to be shifted after the railways promises a proper rehabilitation package,” he said.

The urban development department has taken an initiative to complete a survey in Salt Lake’s Duttabad to shift several families for the East-West Metro. “But in other projects, such as Joka-BBD Bag and Barrackpore-Baranagar-Noapara, the government is not taking any initiative to remove the bottlenecks,” said an official.

West Central Railway announced Special Trian between Rewa and Beas.

The Union Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today hinted at fare hike of Kolkata Metro Railway to offset the “huge losses” in revenue.

Mr Chowdhury said that the Railway Board was considering increase in the metro fares with a view to meet the cost of additional rakes that have been put into service.

“The Railway Board is having a talk on a hike in the Kolkata Metro Railway fare. I am also of the view that a hike is necessary for the increased number of rakes and other facilities. The Kolkata Metro is suffering huge losses,” Mr Chowdhury told reporters.

The fares of the country’s first underground railway service have not been increased in the past 15 years, Mr Chowdhury pointed out.

He said that a decision would be taken in this regard by the Railway Ministry.

Junior railway minister Adhir Chowdhury on Wednesday alleged that work on a Metro project was stalled as the Trinamul-run Calcutta Municipal Corporation was not taking any initiative to dismantle a defunct water pipeline under BT Road between Barrackpore and Baranagar.

The Rs 2,296-crore Barrackpore-Baranagar-Noapara Metro project, work on which started in end-2011, has made only 10 per cent progress because of the impasse over the pipeline.

The minister also referred to another hurdle — the government’s reluctance to evict around 500 families who are illegally occupying railway land near Dakshineswar, which falls between Noapara and Baranagar on the Metro stretch.

“Despite the railways having paid for the dismantling of the pipeline, the CMC has not done anything. Work can’t be started because of this,” Chowdhury said at a campaign rally for Congress candidates in the civic polls in Panihati, North 24-Parganas.

Asked about the minister’s allegation, mayor Sovan Chatterjee said the civic authorities have not yet been able to trace the pipe that once used to carry water from Palta to the Tallah reservoir.

“There is a lot of complication in dismantling the old pipeline. We don’t know its exact alignment as there are no records. We are trying our best to find out its exact alignment. But it is difficult to say how long it will take or when we can hand over the site for the Metro construction,” said Chatterjee.

According to an October 2011 memorandum of understanding between the CMC and the railways, the civic body was to dismantle the old pipeline and hand over the land over it, along BT Road, by August 2012.

The pipeline runs 12.5km from the Dunlop crossing till Barrackpore under BT Road, which is more than 63 per cent of the 19.7km Metro route.

Metro engineers said there were two parallel conduits of 60 inch and 42 inch diameter. “Unless these are dismantled, even piling work to raise pillars along the alignment can’t start,” said an official.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had in September 2012 inaugurated a Tallah-Palta pipeline that replaced the old one.

As for the eviction of the 500-odd families, the junior railway minister alleged the state government was not doing anything about it. “The state government is not extending any help to evict the encroachers,” he alleged.

A senior official of the state government said several meetings were held with the railway authorities on the issue but a solution proved elusive. “We are against forceful eviction. The families have to be shifted after the railways promises a proper rehabilitation package,” he said.

The urban development department has taken an initiative to complete a survey in Salt Lake’s Duttabad to shift several families for the East-West Metro. “But in other projects, such as Joka-BBD Bag and Barrackpore-Baranagar-Noapara, the government is not taking any initiative to remove the bottlenecks,” said an official.

जागरण संवाददाता, नई दिल्ली। त्योहार के मौसम में अपने घर जाने की चाह रखने वाले यात्रियों की एक अद्द टिकट की तलाश भी पूरी नहीं हो पा रही है। ट्रेन में सीट मिलना तो दूर इन दिनों टिकट लेने में भी यात्रियों को खासी परेशानी का सामना करना पड़ रहा है। आरक्षण काउंटर पर लगने वाली लंबी-लंबी लाइनों से बचने के लिए यदि कोई ई टिकट लेने की कोशिश कर रहा है तो इसमें भी कई तरह की दिक्कतें सामने आ रही हैं। जबकि आइआरसीटीसी (इंडियन रेलवे कैटरिंग एंड टूरिज्म कॉरपोरशन) अपनी वेबसाइट में सुधार कर यात्रियों की परेशानी दूर करने का दावा कर रहा है।

त्योहार में घर जाने वाले यात्रियों की शिकायत है कि इन दिनों टिकट बुक करने की प्रक्रिया शुरू करते ही आइआरसीटीसी की वेबसाइट हैंग हो जाती है। कई बार कोशिश करने के बाद यदि सफलता मिलती भी है तो तब तक ट्रेन में जगह नहीं बचती और यात्री वेटिंग लिस्ट की टिकट लेने को मजबूर हो जाता है। कई बार तो टिकट बुक हुए बगैर उपभोक्ता के अकाउंट से पैसे कट जा रहे हैं।

लक्ष्मीनगर निवासी विजय शर्मा के साथ भी कुछ ऐसा हीं हुआ। कई बार प्रयास करने के बाद भी विजय को टिकट तो नहीं मिला, लेकिन हां उनके खाते से पैसे जरूर कट गए। इसी तरह से बदरपुर के रहने वाले आशीष गोयल भी पिछले दो दिनों से ई टिकट बुक करने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं, लेकिन उन्हें सफलता नहीं मिली। बदरपुर के ही प्रवीन दीक्षित बताते हैं कि लगभग 45 मिनट तक कोशिश करने के बाद जब टिकट तो मिली लेकिन कंफर्म के बजाए वेटिंग टिकट से ही संतोष करना पड़ा।

यात्रियों का कहना है कि इस बार रेल बजट में ई टिकट में आने वाली समस्या दूर करने की बात कही गई थी, लेकिन अभी भी परेशानी बरकरार है। ज्ञात हो कि रेल बजट में रेल मंत्री ने घोषणा की थी कि ऐसी व्यवस्था की जा रही है जिससे प्रति मिनट 72 सौ ई टिकट की बुकिंग होगी। लेकिन अभी आइआरसीटीसी की वेबसाइट से प्रति मिनट केवल दो हजार लोग ही ई टिकट ले सकते हैं।

वहीं, आइआरसीटीसी के अधिकारियों का दावा है कि ई टिकट लेने में परेशानी नहीं हो रही है। उनके अनुसार यात्रियों की सुविधा के लिए हार्डवेयर, सॉफ्टवेयर तथा सर्वर को अपग्रेड करने पर दस करोड़ खर्च किए गए हैं। जिससे अब 10 से 12 लाख उपभोक्ता एक साथ वेबसाइट पर जा सकते हैं।

इन दिनों ई टिकट कराने वालों की संख्या भी तेजी से बढ़ी है। पिछले वर्ष जहां रोजाना 3.99 लाख यात्री ई टिकट लेते थे वहीं इन दिनों पांच लाख से ज्यादा लोग ई टिकट ले रहे हैं। टिकट एजेंट सुबह आठ से दस बजे तक एपीआर (एडवांस रिजर्व पर्सनल) टिकट नहीं ले सकता है। एपीआर की अवधि 60 दिन है। उनका कहना है कि किसी को ई टिकट लेने में कोई दिक्कत आ रही है तो वह उपभोक्ता द्वारा प्रयोग किया जा रहा नेटवर्क व ब्राउजर की समस्या है।

त्योहारी सीजन में आफत

रेल बजट में हुई घोषणा पर अमल करने के लिए लगभग एक सौ करोड़ रुपये खर्च किया जा रहा है। अगले वर्ष की पहली तिमाही तक घोषणा के अनुरूप ई टिकट बुकिंग की क्षमता बढ़ जाएगी। -प्रदीप कुंडु (आइआरसीटीसी के जनसंपर्क उपमहाप्रबंधक)

दिन - टिकट बुकिंग

एक सितंबर - 4.69 लाख

दो सितंबर- 5.72 लाख

तीन सितंबर- 5.62 लाख

चार सितंबर- 5.51 लाख

पांच सितंबर- 5.31 लाख

छह सितंबर- 5.58 लाख

सात सितंबर- 5.25 लाख

आठ सितंबर- 4.30 लाख

West Central Railway announced Special Trian between Rewa and Beas.

എറണാകുളം-കണ്ണൂര്‍ റൂട്ടില്‍ പുതിയ അതിവേഗ ട്രെയിന്‍ സര്‍വീസ് തുടങ്ങാന്‍ കേരളം ആലോചിക്കുന്നു. ഒരു ജില്ലയില്‍ ഒരു സ്റ്റോപ് മാത്രം എന്ന രീതിയില്‍ മൂന്നരമണിക്കൂര്‍ കൊണ്ട് എറണാകുളത്ത് നിന്ന് കണ്ണൂരിലെത്തുന്ന തരത്തിലുള്ള ട്രെയിന്‍ സര്‍വീസാണ് ആലോചനയിലുള്ളതെന്ന് മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി ഉമ്മന്‍ ചാണ്ടി പറഞ്ഞു. കേരളത്തിന്റെ നിര്‍ദേശം അനുഭാവപൂര്‍വ്വം പരിഗണിക്കാമെന്ന് റെയില്‍വെ അറിയിച്ചതായി അദ്ദേഹം പറഞ്ഞു.

കേരളത്തില്‍ പുതുതായി ആരംഭിക്കാന്‍ ഉദ്ദേശിക്കുന്ന സബര്‍ബന്‍ ട്രെയിന്‍ സര്‍വീസിന്റെ പദ്ധതിരേഖ തയാറാക്കുന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ച് ചര്‍ച്ചചെയ്യാന്‍ ചേര്‍ന്ന ഉന്നതതല യോഗത്തിന് ശേഷം മാധ്യമപ്രവര്‍ത്തകരോട് സംസാരിക്കുകയായിരുന്നു മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി.

പദ്ധതിക്കായി റെയില്‍വെയ്ക്കും സംസ്ഥാന സര്‍ക്കാരിനും തുല്യ ഓഹരിപങ്കാളിത്തമുള്ള സ്‌പെഷല്‍ പര്‍പസ് വെഹിക്കിള്‍ രൂപവത്കരിക്കാനും യോഗത്തില്‍ തീരുമാനമായി. സബര്‍ബന്‍ കോറിഡോര്‍ പദ്ധതിയുടെ രൂപരേഖ തയാറാക്കാന്‍ മുംബൈ റെയില്‍ വികാസ് കോര്‍പറേഷനെ ചുമതലപ്പെടുത്തും. ഡിസംബറിനകം ആദ്യ പദ്ധതിരേഖ സമര്‍പ്പിക്കാന്‍ ആവശ്യപ്പെടും. നാളെ ചേരുന്ന മന്ത്രിസഭായോഗം ഈ തീരുമാനത്തിന് അനുമതി നല്‍കും.

തിരുവനന്തപുരം-ചെങ്ങന്നൂര്‍ റൂട്ടിലും, തിരുവനന്തപുരം-ഹരിപ്പാട് റൂട്ടിലുമാണ് സബര്‍ബന്‍ സര്‍വീസ് വിഭാവനം ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഒരു കിലോമീറ്ററിന് ശരാശരി 20 കോടി രൂപ ചിലവ് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്ന പദ്ധതിക്ക് ആകെ വേണ്ടിവരുന്നത് 3000 കോടി രൂപയാണ്. ഇതിന് ലോകബാങ്ക് വായ്പ ലഭിക്കുമെന്നുമെന്നും മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി പറഞ്ഞു. ഭൂമി ഏറ്റെടുക്കേണ്ടി വരുന്നില്ല എന്നതാണ് സബര്‍ബന്‍ പദ്ധതിയുടെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ അനുകൂലഘടകമെന്നും മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി പറഞ്ഞു

മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിക്ക് പുറമെ കേന്ദ്രമന്ത്രി ശശി തരൂര്‍, മന്ത്രി ആര്യാടന്‍ മുഹമ്മദ്, മുംബൈ റെയില്‍ വികാസ് കോര്‍പറേഷന്‍ എം.ഡി രാകേഷ് സക്‌സേന, ദക്ഷിണറെയില്‍വെ ജനറല്‍ മാനേജര്‍ രാകേഷ് മിശ്ര എന്നിവരും ഉന്നത ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥരും യോഗത്തില്‍ പങ്കെടുത്തു.

ഷൊര്‍ണൂര്‍-കണ്ണൂര്‍ മേഖലയിലെ പാത ഇരട്ടിപ്പിക്കല്‍ ജോലികള്‍ ഒരു മാസത്തിനുള്ളില്‍ പൂര്‍ത്തിയാകുമെന്ന് ദക്ഷിണറെയില്‍വെ ജനറല്‍ മാനേജര്‍ യോഗത്തില്‍ അറിയിച്ചു. കേരളത്തില്‍ റെയില്‍പാത ഇരട്ടിപ്പക്കലിന് ഭൂമി ഏറ്റെടുക്കുന്നതിലാണ് വീഴ്ചയുണ്ടായിട്ടുള്ളതെന്ന് മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി പറഞ്ഞു.