Come December, rly station to have new entry, exit point

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 24

The Chandigarh railway station will have a new entry and exit point for commuters from next month. The facelift work is over and the contractor is going to handover the infrastructure to the railway authorities for opening it for public use.

During a visit to the station, the company representatives who installed escalators for Platform Number 2 and 3 stated that they had made them functional and they would be doing final cleaning of the machines today. They said that it was ready for use and the railway authorities had been informed about it.

Sources said that the contractor had been postponing the work because of the delay in release of funds by the railway authorities. A representative of the contractor said that by this week the final completion of the work would be made and handed over to the authorities by November 30, 2014.

Ambala Divisional Railway Manager Anil Kumar Kathpal said that instructions had been issued to the contractor to give final touches to the portion constructed near the escalators or penalty would be imposed on him for the delay which he had already done in the past. He said that by the first week of December, the escalators would become operational giving relief to the public.

He said that by December first week, the escalators would be operational for use which would fascilitate the commuters. He said that the ticket counter area would take time as the wiring had to be done for the installation of the system in the cabins.