DRM: Security to be tightened at Haridwar railway station

Tribune News Service

Haridwar, December 16

Elaborate security arrangements will be put in place at the local railway station. Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Pramod Kumar said this during an inspection visit here yesterday.

The whole station premises would be brought under CCTVs with the DRM expressing displeasure over non-functional CCTVs. Stern directives were given to Station Superintendent MK Singh to repair CCTVs and also improve their coverage and recording quality.

He said necessary steps would be taken to ensure the safety of passengers. The Indian Railways had been adopting newer technology and regularly inspecting railway lines and railway stations.

He expressed satisfaction over sanitation and parking facility at the railway station. He said with the electrification of the railway line from Haridwar to Dehradun, the duration time had come down. He inspected the foot overbridge and other construction works going on at the railway station.

Station Superintendent MK Singh said owing to VVIPs’ movement and arrival of pilgrims and tourists from across the country, infrastructure works were being done in such a manner as to make it a world-class station. A delegation of the Northern Railways Mens’ Union also submitted a memorandum to the DRM regarding their demands.

Vijay Shrivastava, president of the union’s local unit, said they were demanding the removal of encroachments from railway land, irregular supply of potable water in the railway residential colony, construction of a foot overbridge from the railway rest house to the bus station, appointment of women doctors and medical staff at railway hospital and inclusion of Jolly Grant Himalayan Hospital on the medical panel of the railways.