Jagran correspondent, PDDU Nagar (Chandauli). Five major stations of East Central Railway including Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Junction will be rejuvenated. There will be huge changes in most passenger facilities.
State-of-the-art equipment will be installed in the platform and circulating area. Safety standards have also been prepared at the junction and platform. In this, it will become easier for the disabled and elderly to travel in trains. DRM Uday Singh Meena said that along with increasing maintenance facilities including mega coaching complex, traffic facilities and multitracking will be increased.
In view of the increasing number of passengers and operation of new trains, passenger facilities will be increased at Patna, Gaya, PDDU, Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga stations including PDDU Junction.
Construction of five terminal platforms has also been started at Patna Junction. Work will soon be done for development of facilities at other selected stations including PDDU Junction. This involves equipping the existing terminals with additional platforms, stabling lines, pit lines and adequate shunting facilities.
Told that a comprehensive plan for 48 major cities is under consideration. This includes the cities of Patna, Gaya, DDU, Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga of East Central Railway. In this sequence, five terminal platforms are being constructed at a cost of Rs 95 crore in Hardinge Park near Patna Junction.
In this series, approximately 400 km long third and fourth railway lines will be constructed between Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction-Jhajha at a cost of Rs 17 thousand crores. From PDDU Junction it is divided into small sections like Danapur, Danapur-Fatuha, Fatuha-Bakhtiyarpur, Bakhtiyarpur-Punarkh, Punarkh-Kiul and Kiul-Jhajha.
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