*Spl trains being run, addl Control Rooms set up
Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Nov 15: While sharing joy of festivities with the passengers by running the special trains during festivals, Northern Railways General Manager Shobhan Chaudhuri today inspected the arrangement for Chhath at New Delhi Station.
Sukhwinder Singh, DRM Delhi Division and senior officers of Northern Railways also accompanied GM during the inspection. GM inspected various arrangements at New Delhi Railway Station and also interacted with the passengers.
Various arrangements for crowd management were briefed to the General Manager by the staff. They disclosed that till date, 880 trips of 102 pairs, plus seven unscheduled trains have been notified. In these trips, 809 trips are East bound and remaining 71 trips are North / Other bound generating approximately 17.5 lakh additional seats. In order to accommodate every class, Northern Railway has ensured attachment of each type of coaches.
They said 70 trains (68 Rakes) have been augmented with 117 coaches. Hence generated more than 5.17 lakh berths. Total additional berths/ seats are about 22.5 lakh. Chaudhuri instructed all the officers concerned to remain vigil to provide all kind of assistance to passengers. In order to maintain crowd management at stations, various arrangements have been made by the staff which included setting up of additional mini control rooms at New Delhi functioning round the clock with all sort of staff and medical steams. They will have facilities like Telephones, train information, panel room connectivity, CCTV feeds of platforms and circulating areas.
Tentage arrangement at Ajmeri Gate circulating area has been made with 20 mobile toilets, 20 additional water taps , 7 more reservation counters, and LCD screens for providing train information/ news and public address system besides food and snacks stalls for the passengers.
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