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Abohar: The visiting railway team led by divisional engineer Ranjan Kumar has ruled out restoring the passages to Nai Abadi and Ram Nagar even as Congress councillors, Vimal Thatai, Prem Kalra, Raja Ram and Suman Taneja, explained that several thousand residents settled across the railway station, had been using them for more than 50 years.The engineer said safety could not be compromised as nearly two dozen trains now pass through the railway track on which the passages were closed last month ahead of the Chief Safety Commissioner’s inspection.A live demonstration of their ordeal by the cyclists and the womenfolk failed to convince the officials. The engineers experienced the problem faced by thousands of commuters in passing through the pipes fixed by their department here to ensure a “smooth flow” of passengers at the railway station.Representatives of the NGOs said the low level of the main platform had resulted in scores of casualties but the officials avoided commenting on it. They also inspected the expansion work of platform number 1.To process the request made by CLP leader and local MLA Sunil Jakhar during a recent meeting with the Minister of State for Railways KH Muniyappa, for sanctioning another railway overbridge on Sriganganagar road, the engineers inspected the site. They also advised the councillors to route the proposals for the overbridge and underpass through the Fazilka Deputy Commissioner.