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Jamshedpur: The Chakradharpur railway division has started construction of a foot-overbridge (FOB) at the Kandra railway station to meet the longstanding demands of over 23,000 residents of 35 villages in the vicinity of the station. The division aims to complete the 80m x 3m FOB within 90 days.
Senior divisional manager (commercial) Manish Pathak said on Saturday, “We have commenced work with the installation of two girders and two barrels measuring 33m and 13m have been fixed. The third barrel measuring 34m will be fixed tomorrow (Sunday) to cover the 80m length. We will construct the staircases subsequently.”
Pathak said the new FOB at Kandra station, located 21km away from the Tatanagar station, will encompass all six tracks to facilitate commuters to walk from one end to the other smoothly.
Currently, a short FOB exists and the commuters are forced to walk over track numbers five and six to cross the yard. A total of 36 long and short-distance trains halt at the station along with an equal number of goods trains passing through at frequent intervals.
“Not many passenger trains halted at the station earlier and the movement of the goods trains was comparatively less. The old FOB served the purpose to reach the two mainline tracks but the Kandra has become a busy station and we started construction of the new FOB,” Pathak said.
A 46-year-old Kandra resident, Ajit Kumar, said, “Once the new FOB is completed, we need not walk the 3km distance to reach the other side of the station during the busy hours,” said Kandra resident, 46-year-old, Ajit Kumar.
Meanwhile, Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth has sought the list of passenger trains halting at the Chandil railway station during the Covid period. The Chandil station master, Vishnu Tanti, said the MP has sought information about the trains that have not stopped at the station in the past year.
Notably, 18 pairs of passenger trains halt at Chandil station prior to the pandemic, but only five pairs are halting at the station currently.
Senior divisional manager (commercial) Manish Pathak said on Saturday, “We have commenced work with the installation of two girders and two barrels measuring 33m and 13m have been fixed. The third barrel measuring 34m will be fixed tomorrow (Sunday) to cover the 80m length. We will construct the staircases subsequently.”
Pathak said the new FOB at Kandra station, located 21km away from the Tatanagar station, will encompass all six tracks to facilitate commuters to walk from one end to the other smoothly.
Currently, a short FOB exists and the commuters are forced to walk over track numbers five and six to cross the yard. A total of 36 long and short-distance trains halt at the station along with an equal number of goods trains passing through at frequent intervals.
“Not many passenger trains halted at the station earlier and the movement of the goods trains was comparatively less. The old FOB served the purpose to reach the two mainline tracks but the Kandra has become a busy station and we started construction of the new FOB,” Pathak said.
A 46-year-old Kandra resident, Ajit Kumar, said, “Once the new FOB is completed, we need not walk the 3km distance to reach the other side of the station during the busy hours,” said Kandra resident, 46-year-old, Ajit Kumar.
Meanwhile, Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth has sought the list of passenger trains halting at the Chandil railway station during the Covid period. The Chandil station master, Vishnu Tanti, said the MP has sought information about the trains that have not stopped at the station in the past year.
Notably, 18 pairs of passenger trains halt at Chandil station prior to the pandemic, but only five pairs are halting at the station currently.
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