Arun Kumar, Director General of Railway Protection Force (RPF) categorically said that a tighter security arrangement will be put in place besides barricading arrangements at at Wagon Repair Shop Colony in Raipur where thousands of people throng annually to celebrate Dussehra.
Kumar made the statement on Saturday while responding to a question at a press conference regarding Dussehra function near railway tracks at WRS conony without presence of RPF men.
The question was raised in backdrop of death of several people this year on Dussehra at Amritsar in Punjab where a speeding train mowed down revelers. Kumar was on a day-long visit to Raipur on Saturday.
Interacting with media persons, he said security in the moving trains and on platforms would be enhanced, for which Rs soon around 10,000 more personnel would be added to the RPF and GRP’.
He stated that a better coordination between two forces will be ensured.