For the convenience of the passengers ATM booths will be set up at eight railway stations of Prayagraj division of North Central Railway (NCR). The e-tender process has been completed and the Reserve Bank of India authorised Hitachi Payment Services Private Limited has been chosen for the job.
The company has started work at the Prayagraj Junction, Kanpur Central railway station, Prayagraj Chheoki, Etawah, Mirzapur, Manikpur, Fatehpur, and Dadri railway stations to provide ATM facility as early as possible.
ATM booths were not available in the station premises and passengers had to come out to withdraw money. Now this facility will be available on the main platform of the above eight railway stations of Prayagraj division.
According to PRO Prayagraj Division of NCR, Hitachi Payment Services Private Limited has been given this contract for five years. The passengers will be able to withdraw up to Rs 25,000 in a day from the above ATM booths. Hitachi will maintain the ATM after installation and will look after the security and cleanliness of the ATM booths.
CAUGHT: The vigilance team has apprehended Krishna Chandra Tripathi, secretary of District Cooperative Union in Phulpur, red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs 20,000 in the name of licence renewal. Based on a complaint the Vigilance team laid a trap and arrested him with Rs 20,000 as bribe and sent him to jail.
Alok of an area under Phulpur police station had lodged a complaint against the secretary. He has DCF fertiliser sales centre in Silokhra Phulpur and his license was to be renewed. It was registered in 2015 and the licence was expiring on November 8. When Alok went to renew his license the secretary allegedly demanded Rs 20,000 from him. Alok informed the Vigilance team about it. When the Vigilance team investigated the matte, they found that the case was prima facie true and after this a trap was laid. At the appointed time and date, Alok handed over Rs 20,000 to the secretary and the Vigilance team caught him.
MOLESTATION CASE: A case of alleged molestation of two female MEd trainees of Allahabad University has come to light while on duty as room invigilator in a college here. The principal has lodged a report against a lecturer at the Georgetown police station.
Principal of KP College, Dr Yogendra Singh said in the report that there was an examination in the college on November 5. Sunday being a holiday most of the college teachers had expressed their inability to contribute to the examination duty. For conducting the examination, 30 male and female trainees undergoing training under the guidance of Dr Devi Prasad Singh, Associate Professor of Allahabad University, were put on duty as room invigilators.
Two female trainees working as room invigilators accused a lecturer of misbehaviour, inappropriate touching and molestation. The female trainees made a written complaint on the basis of which a report was lodged at the Georgetown police station. Georgetown police station incharge Rajeev Srivastava said the statements of both the victim trainees have been recorded.
The house of the accused lecturer was raided but he is still absconding. His number has been put on surveillance. He will be arrested soon and interrogated.