Soon the passengers would get facility to make train bookings from the new reservation building in Railway station premises. The work of new reservation counters at railway station is nearing completion and would be made available to the people before Shivaratri snan in March.
Notably Mahashivaratri fest sees lakhs of pilgrims who come to holy city for offering holy water on Shiva lingas in the ‘land of Shiva- Hardwar.’
As per the railway officials the work of reservation counters underway in new building in railway station premises shall be completed before the fifth Ardh Kumbh Mela snan of Mahashivaratri. Many infrastructural works are being undertaken at the railway station including construction of foot-over bridge, parking lot and reservation centre. The work of foot-over bridge and parking lot has been completed and the new hall for reservation facility is also complete. The work of installation of computers and internet facility is pending which shall be completed before the Mahashivaratri snan.
Speaking to the Pioneer, station superintendent M K Singh said, “We have already spoken to BSNl officials to lay the wiring for internet. Only the computerization work is pending. The completion of this work shall be completed before 7 March. There would be many more reservation counters available to the passengers and this would help us control the huge rush of pilgrims who come during the snan.”
In all 8 counters shall be made for normal booking and 8 others for reservation say the Railway officials. Currently the reservation office is adjacent to platform no. 1 where most of the trains arrive. With the new reservation centre, even the rush of pilgrims can be controlled at the railway station.