Officials from Passenger Service Committee, Railway Board, Delhi, including chairman of committee Ramesh Chandra Ratna, member of the committee KK Vidyarthi, member Vishnu Prasad Das and member passenger facilities GS Sethi inspected Ranchi railway station on Monday.
During the inspection, the team assessed the passenger facilities available at Ranchi railway station at catering stalls, food plazas located in station, kitchens of all food stalls, waiting hall for passengers, light, fans and water tap.
Cleanliness of station, passenger seating arrangement, dumping of garbage having separate wet waste and dry waste bins, reservation office, booking office, parcel office bedroll system and CCTV control room established for safety, were also inspected. The team were satisfied with the availability of WiFi facility at stations and display of ‘no bill no payment’ stickers at several places.
During the inspection, the committee found some irregularities related to catering and cleanliness, for which instructions were given to impose a fine on the contractors who have been assigned the task of cleanness and catering.Ranchi railway station which was earlier ranked 173rd for cleanliness in survey carried out for all railway stations of Indian Railways, had jumped in cleanliness with Ranchi Railway station getting 63rd rank among the railway stations of Indian Railways, which is much better than before. For this, chairman and members of the committee appreciated Ranchi railway station and gave instructions to make it more clean and beautiful.