Tiruchi Siva, MP, handing over a railway
reservation ticket, to a passenger at the inauguration of Passenger
Reservation System at Teppakulam Post Office in Tiruchi on Saturday.
Manjula Rangarajan, Divisional Railway Manage, and J.T. Venkateswarlu,
Post Master-General, Central Region, are with them.— PHOTO: B.
VELANKANNI RAJ
With a view to help passengers, escalators will be provided at the
platform number two and three at the railway junction here, according to
Manjula Rangarajan, Divisional Railway Manager, Southern Railway.
Speaking at the inauguration of Passenger Reservation System at
Teppakulam post office, Ms. Rangarajan said the cost would be Rs. 1.16
crore. Tiruchi N. Siva, DMK MP, has promised to give Rs.1 crore from his
MP’s Local Area Development Fund. Tenders would be floated in March and
installation would be completed in six months, said Ms. Rangarajan.
Ms. Rangarajan said that escalators were provided on either side of
over bridges in railway junctions. Trichi railway junction did not have a
bridge connecting the seven platforms. However, as Mr. Siva had
allocated the amount, escalators would be provided in the sub-ways at
platform number two and three.
Mr. Siva, who inaugurated the Passenger Reservation System put up
jointly by Department of Posts and Railways, promised to bear all the
expenses for putting up the escalator at Tiruchi Railway Junction. He
lauded the services of Postal Department and railways. “The Passenger
Reservation Facility will help people in the area,” he said.
First reservation at the counter was made by an 87-year-old passenger
Krishnamurthy. Mr. Siva handed over the reserved ticket to Mr.
Krishnamurthy.
J.T. Venkateswarlu, Post Master General, Central Region Tamil Nadu,
said Teppakulam post office was the seventh in Tiruchi postal region to
have the Passenger Reservation Facility.
The other post offices which offered the facility are Aravakurichi,
Muthupettai, Peravurani, Pudukottai Head Post Office, Renganagar, and
Golden Rock. Core banking facility had been introduced in head post
offices in the region, he said.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com/
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