Raipur

SECR to start mechanised cleaning at more stations

Staff Reporter

The South East Central Railway (SECR) will be starting Mechanised Cleaning for Bhatapara, Tilda and Bhilai Power House Railway Stations in Chhattisgarh soon, officials stated.

It would also soon take up installation of Dual Display Information System (DDIS) at Passenger Reservation System (PRS) and Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) counters at important A1, A, & B Category stations over its Railway divisions.

Notably, as many as five ongoing projects under South East Central Railway (SECR) had been put in the priority list by Union Railway Ministry for fast tracking implementation of the projects.

Prioritisation of projects is a continuous exercise carried out on the basis of traffic and safety considerations and availability of funds, officials stated.

In addition to ongoing projects, 77 doubling / tripling / quadrupling projects having an aggregate length of 9,040 Km and total estimated cost of ` 90,304 crore were included in the Railway Budget for 2015-16 to decongest existing saturated section and create additional carrying capacity.

Zone wise break up of fast track implementation of projects is as under:- Central Railway 6, East Coast Railway 8, East Central Railway 11, Eastern Railway 1, North Central Railway 4, North East Railway 4, Northeast Frontier Railway 2, Northern Railway 4, North Western Railway 2, South Central Railway 8, South East Central Railway 5, South Eastern Railway 5, Southern Railway 4, South Western Railway 3, West Central Railway 6 and Western Railway 4.