Now passengers will get the facility of sleeping pods at Chheoki railway station here. A few days ago the tender process for making sleeping pods at the Prayagraj Junction had started. A Pune-based company will manufacture sleeping pods here. The company has also started the construction process on the building containing the old booking counter and reservation counter located on the Civil Lines side of the junction. Passengers will be able to get this facility at Prayagraj Junction possibly in October or November. Railway passengers will be able to rest here. Passengers will be able to book couple and single sleeping pods. Along with Chheoki, sleeping pods will be prepared at Kanpur Central, Aligarh Junction, Etawah and Mirzapur railway stations. It may be pointed out here that for the first time in North India a sleeping pod is being prepared at Prayagraj Junction.
Senior DCM of Prayagraj Division Himanshu Shukla said that such pods are to be made at Prayagraj Junction as well as other railway stations. In view of Mahakumbh 2025, there will be a large number of passenger traffic here. Keeping this in mind sleeping pods are to be made at Prayagraj Junction, Chheoki Junction etc.
MAHAKUMBH: With around 40 crore devotees and tourists expected to converge at Prayagraj during Mahakumbh-2025, the state government has laid special emphasis on widening and constructing new roads leading to the mela area.
To expedite this work, the state government has approved the budget of `23.48 crore for the widening of 12 roads leading to the fair area. Of this, first tranche of `17.43 crore has been released. The work of road widening will be done by the Cantonment Board and funds released by public works department (PWD). Apart from widening roads, new ones will also be constructed to decongest the mammoth gathering of devotees. Among this, a link road will be constructed, connecting old GT Road to Kali Marg near Patel Sansthan. For this, `1.52 crore has been released. Likewise, a new road will be constructed from Alopibagh flyover to Kali Marg via PWD store for which `1.91 crore has been given. Apart from this, an amount of `1.75 crore for widening of road from Harshvardhan intersection to Jawahar Lal Nehru Road, `60.51 lakh for interlocking at VIP Ghat, `69.51 lakh for construction of Yamuna Patti interlocking route (from Akshayvat Marg), `1.58 crore for interlocking on Lal sadak (road) and interlocking and widening on Sangam return route have also been released. Also, `1.82 crore has been released for interlocking and widening of Jagdish ramp. Along with this, funds have been released for construction of three ghats. The government has approved `34.55 crore for acquiring 11,754 sqm of land for pucca ghats. These will come up at Dashashwamedh Ghat in Daraganj, Nehru Ghat near Saraswati Ghat and a 30m long ghat behind ECC for which `1.48 crore has been released for acquiring 504 sqm land.
Funds have also been released for several other works related, including interlocking of road near Talab Naval Rai, new road near Triveni Marg stretching from Jagannath temple to Bangar Dharamshala.
“Now that funds are being approved and released, work for construction of new roads and widening of existing ones will be expedited,” said MahaKumbh Mela Adhikari, Vijay Kiran Anand.
