General Manager of North Eastern Railway (NER) Chandra Vir Raman during his one-day visit to the city, inspected the Banaras railway station on Friday and saw the progress made under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme (ABSS) in which the station is being redeveloped with a cost over `53 crore. The GM also interacted with representatives of the employees’ unions and inquired about the difficulties faced by them during their duty. The GM assured action on reasonable suggestions of the representatives to solve the problems. Thereafter, the GM left for inspection of Banaras-Prayagraj Rambagh rail section by his inspection special train from Platform No 3. During his inspection, he saw the progress of the double lane road over bridge (ROB) under construction at level crossing number 10 near Hardattpur station and observed the work plan for its construction. After stopping the inspection special near Katka station yard, Raman listened to villagers’ demand for construction of railway underpass and assured the villagers that their problem will be solved very soon by making an underpass. Earlier in the morning, the GM inspected the work plan through the foundation work and diagram of the under-construction ROB between Sarnath and Kadipur railway stations. The Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone for the construction of double lane ROBs near Kadipur, Hardattpur and Chaukhandi railway stations at a cost of 172 crore in July last. In this regard, the work of ROB to be made between Sarnath and Kadipur stations has been started by the state government. The GM, during the inspection of this ROB, directed the officers concerned to start the work of the railway portion soon. He said that the target of June 2024 has been set for this ROB and after its completion, train punctuality will be better and safety will be strengthened. Apart from this, the movement of road users and vehicles will be smooth. The GM directed the officers concerned to get the bridge work done on priority basis. On the occasion Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Vineet Kumar Srivastava, ADRM (Infrastructure) Rahul Srivastava, Chief Project Manager (Gati Shakti) Kaushalesh Singh, Senior Divisional Engineer (Coordination) Rakesh Ranjan, Senior Divisional Operations Manager AP Singh. Senior Divisional Engineer-3 Anuj Verma, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (General) Pankaj Kesharwani, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer (Carriage & Wagon) Anubhav Pathak, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Sheikh Rehman, Senior Divisional Security Commissioner Dr Abhishek, Senior Divisional Signal and Telecommunication Engineer Rajat Priya, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (Traction) RN Singh, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (Operation) Anil Srivastava, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer (EnHM) Apoorva Swarnkar, Deputy Chief Engineer (Gati Shakti) IC Subhash, Joint General Manager (RVNL) Ashutosh Shukla and many other senior officers were present.