There was a demand for increase in passenger facilities and train service during the Divisional Railway Consumer Advisory Committee (DRCAC) meeting held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Divisional Railway Manager, Pradeep Gupta at Hatia of Ranchi Railway Division (RRD).
Senior Divisional Commercial Manager cum Chief Public Relations Officer, Nishant Kumar welcomed all the members. A power point presentation of passenger convenience and development works being done at stations of Ranchi division was also shown on this occasion.
During the meeting demand was also raised to one day operation of Swarnajayanti train via Lohardaga-Tori. Ranchi Chopan train should be run early in the morning so that the train can come back to Ranchi the same day. Hatia Durg train should be extended up to Itwari station. Ranchi Tori MEMU train should be operated up to Garhwa Road. City buses should be operated from Ranchi and Hatia. The frequency of trains going south should be increased. The frequency of the Ranchi Kamakhya train should be congratulated.
Regular train service starts from Ranchi to Hyderabad, Gandhinagar, Jaipur, Bhopal, Chandigarh and others. Operation of Dhanbad Ranchi Bhubaneswar Garib Rath should start. Rajdhani Express, Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti, Ranchi Lokmanya Tilak Ranchi and Ranchi Ara Ranchi trains should also be stopped at Parasnath station.
On this occasion, Additional Divisional Railway Manager (Operations),Manish Kumar, proposed a vote of thanks. ,
The members of the Divisional Railway Consumer Advisory Committee present include AK Sinha, Prem Kataruka, Rahul Kumar Awasthi, Amber Kumar Lakra, Dr Rajkumar Sharma, Arun Kumar Joshi, Mahendra Kumar Jain, Navjot Alang, PK Dattani and Parmeshwar Choudhary were present.
On this occasion Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer Kuldeep Kumar, Senior Divisional Operations Manager, Aditya Kumar Choudhary, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer, Balram Prasad Sahu, Senior Divisional Engineer (Coordination), Bam Bam Pandey, Additional Chief Medical Officer, Dr Manisha Verma, Divisional Security Commissioner, Prashant Yadav, Divisional Commercial Manager cum Senior Public Relations Officer, Dr Devraj Banerjee and others were present.