PASSENGER AMENITY COMMITTEE (PAC) INSPECTED AT VARIOUS RAILWAY STATIONS OVER KHURDA ROAD DIVISION

Bhubaneswar (Kalinga Voice) : The Passenger Amenity Committee (PAC) from Railway board comprising of 07 members inspected various Railway stations over Khurda Road Division from 27.09.2021 to 29.09.2021. The committee members were Shri Dilip Mallick, Shri Ajay Kumar Yadav, Shri Abhijit Das, Shri Ram Kumar Pahan, Shri Abhilash Pandey, Shri Bichitra Narayan Kalita and Shri Sunil Ram.
The PAC Committee inspected 10 Railway stations over the Khurda road division, namely Cuttack, Dhanmandal, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Bhadrak, Brahmapur, Chatrapur, Balugaon, Puri, Sakhigopal and Khurda Road Railway stations. During the inspection, the focus areas were Basic Passenger amenities like, availability of drinking water facilities, waiting hall facilities, Platform shelter, foot over Bridge, sitting arrangements for passengers, working of Lifts/escalators, scanners etc , which were checked. The cleanliness of the station areas and the food items available in catering stalls were also examined by the committee members.

After completion of inspection of all Railway stations over the Khurda Road Railway division, the committee presided over a meeting with Shri Rinkesh Roy, Divisional Railway Manager, Khurda Road, Shri Kalyan Pattanaik, Additional Divisional Railway Manager (Infra), Shri Ashok Kumar, Additional Divisional Railway Manager (Operation) and with other Branch officers in the conference hall of DRM building. They appraised the DRM, Khurda road and his team of officers of the isues related to minimum basic facilities for passengers at Railway stations and the plan to further enhance and improve the services to the general public.

The Committee suggested for some additional passenger amenities like extension of platform shelters, adequate number of Ceiling fans, mobile charging points, leveling of tiles on platforms, beautification of station premises etc. Shri Rinkesh Roy, Divisional Railway Manager, Khurda Road, assured that the division is taking every effort to provide best service to the passengers. The PAC members expressed overall satisfaction on the passenger facilities at different Railway stations and congratulated the divisional team for maintaining the stations of Khurda road division in good health.