SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, July 7: The MPs of five states on Friday demanded more trains and improvement of passenger facilities for their respective railway stations at a meeting of the Dhanbad Rail Division Parliamentary Committee.
At the meeting, the MPs took detailed stock of development projects being launched by the Dhanbad Rail Division of East Central Railway (ECR) Zone and asked the general manager Anupam Sharma to run new trains from their respective railway stations and increase the passenger facility.
At the meeting, 15 MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha including PN Singh (Dhanbad), Sanjay Seth (Ranchi, Dipak Prakash ( RS), Mahesh Poddar ( RS), BD Ram ( Palamu), Sunil Singh (Chatra), Aditya Prasad (RS), Ram Shakal (RS), Jayant Sinha ( Hazaribagh), Chandra Prakash Choudhary ( Giridih), Anpurna Devi ( union minister / Koderma MP), Bihar’s Gaya MP Kumar Srivijay, Madhya Pradesh‘s Sidhi MP Riti Pathak, Uttar Pradeshy’s Robertsganj MP Pakori Lal Kol attended the meeting and suggested several measures for improving passengers facilities and launching new projects to Dhanbad Rail Division of East Central Railway.
Dhanbad MP PN Singh said that in nine years under the Narendra Modi government massive development has occurred in the Indian railways, especially for passengers facilities at stations but there are more requirements for improvement and Zonal as well as divisional rail authorities must do this on priority basis.
PN Singh said that since the Dhanbad Rail division is the highest revenue earner in the Railway Board across the country, direct trains from Dhanbad to New Delhi and Bengaluru must be launched.
ECR general manager (GM) Anupam Sharma assured the members of the Parliamentary Committee that their suggestion would be solved seriously and demands would be sent to Railway Board for implementation.
The ECR general manager informed at the meeting that Dhanbad Rail Division has got the first position in the country with a record freight loading of 31.18 million tons.
After the meeting, Dhanbad Rail Division Manager (DRM) Kamal Kishore Sinha said that ECR and Divisional Railway would try to solve the demands of the Parliamentary Committee members with whatever means possible at the local level and the remaining would be sent to Railway Board for consideration.
