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In presumption of the accrued footfall of passengers owed to the festive season, Western Railway has enhanced arrangements successful Surat up of Diwali and Chhath Puja, officials person said, by beefing up the fig of information unit astatine the 2 large stations successful the metropolis and expanding the fig of trains. A ample fig of radical from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, who unrecorded successful Surat to gain their livelihoods, question to their hometowns this clip of the year.
Meanwhile, successful Ahmedabad, attempts are inactive being made to tackle the surge successful crowds. The Western Railway Rail Users Consultative Committee connected Saturday urged the Ahmedabad Division authorities to summation the fig of trains with a absorption connected the immense migrant colonisation trying to instrumentality homes.
Lessons learnt from stampede past year?
In Surat, the arrangements are expected to forestall unforeseen incidents similar a stampede reported past year. A 36-year-old man, Ankit Singh, was killed and 2 others, including a woman, were injured connected November 11, 2023, portion trying to participate a Bhagalpur-bound bid from the Surat Railway station. Over 5,000 passengers were said to person gathered astatine the Surat Railway presumption level to drawback the bid to Bihar.
Western Railway officials person highlighted a notable summation successful the fig of reserved trains from 29 past twelvemonth to 38 this year, marking a 31% summation astatine Surat and Udhna railway stations. To further assistance the passengers, further summons counters and shifts person been acceptable up astatine some the railway stations. At Surat, 7 shifts volition beryllium operated compared to six past year, reflecting a 16.67% increase, portion Udhna volition spot a 100% summation with six shifts this year, including 3 nighttime shifts. Similarly, astatine Vapi, 2 shifts volition beryllium operated this year, a 100% emergence from past year’s azygous shift.
Meanwhile, imperishable holding areas person been established astatine Udhna and Surat stations, replacing the impermanent structures utilized past twelvemonth successful presumption of comfortableness and information of passengers. Additionally, a caller waiting country has been acceptable up adjacent platform-4 astatine Surat presumption to accommodate the accrued rider flow.
In a bid to forestall stampede-like incidents, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) officials person been deployed connected some the railway stations — Surat and Udhna. On Saturday, passengers were seen lasting successful agelong queues extracurricular antithetic bogies, and they were allowed to participate 1 by 1 aft showing their tickets. One of the concerns past twelvemonth that was linked to the overcrowding of the trains was radical boarding trains without preservation oregon tickets.
To support passengers well-informed, extended promotion of peculiar trains is being carried retired done posters and societal media platforms, said sources successful the Western Railway.
Struggle successful Ahmedabad
In a missive to Ashok Kumar Mishra, General Manager of Western Railway (WR); arsenic good arsenic Sudhir Kumar Sharma, the Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) of Ahmedabad Division connected Friday, Kinjan Patel, Member of the Western Rail Users Consultative Committee, asked them to nonstop a connection and commencement peculiar Diwali and Chhath Pooja trains, particularly the Jansadharan Express.
He has requested the trains beryllium tally betwixt Ahmedabad to Gorakhpur via Patna, Darbhanga, Gaya betwixt October 28 and November 5.
The missive stated, “It is known that connected Diwali and Chhath festival, maximum (number of) radical privation to spell to their villages successful North and East India. The fig of wide coaches for the moving radical of the wide category, which utilized to beryllium 6-7 earlier, had been reduced to 2 now, earlier being accrued again to 3 oregon four, recently. This is not capable for the moving people and wide people passengers owed to which the wide passengers are facing a batch of difficulties.”
The missive highlighted that the committee subordinate had learned that nary specified request for trains had been placed by the Ahmedabad Division to the HQ of Western Railway. “Taking cognizance of this, a request should beryllium sent from Ahmedabad Division to tally Jansadharan trains from Ahmedabad to Gorakhpur via Patna, Darbhanga, Gaya, etc. betwixt 28 October and 5 November,” it added.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Pradeep Sharma, acting PRO for the Ahmedabad Division of WR, said, “We person started 27 peculiar trains from Ahmedabad. There are much trains from Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Okha. Secondly, for assemblage management, we person appointed unit and officers to support bid round-the-clock. We person besides made a holding country for passengers successful lawsuit determination is excessively overmuch crowding astatine the platforms.”
Photographs of the terrible crowding connected level fig 3 to committee the Ahmedabad-Darbhanga Jansadharan bid 15560 astatine Ahmedabad Junction presumption connected Friday highlighted the gravity of the issue, said Yogesh Mishra, President of All India Railway Consumers Association, who has besides signed the missive on with Patel. Mishra added that the Jansadharan Express besides stops connected level 6-7, which is presently nether renovation, starring to problems for passengers. Speaking connected the occupation of moving the trains betwixt platforms, Sharma said, “There are operational constraints to determination the trains to different platforms truthful it is not possible.” They sent different missive to this effect connected Saturday arsenic well.
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