Now Railway Tickets can be booked at Teppakulam SO, Tiruchy

Tiruchi Siva, MP, handing over a railway reservation ticket, to a passenger at the inauguration of Passenger Reservation System at Teppakulam Post Office in Tiruchi on Saturday. Manjula Rangarajan, Divisional Railway Manage, and J.T. Venkateswarlu, Post Master-General, Central Region, are with them.— PHOTO: B. VELANKANNI RAJ

With a view to help passengers, escalators will be provided at the platform number two and three at the railway junction here, according to Manjula Rangarajan, Divisional Railway Manager, Southern Railway.

Speaking at the inauguration of Passenger Reservation System at Teppakulam post office, Ms. Rangarajan said the cost would be Rs. 1.16 crore. Tiruchi N. Siva, DMK MP, has promised to give Rs.1 crore from his MP’s Local Area Development Fund. Tenders would be floated in March and installation would be completed in six months, said Ms. Rangarajan.

Ms. Rangarajan said that escalators were provided on either side of over bridges in railway junctions. Trichi railway junction did not have a bridge connecting the seven platforms. However, as Mr. Siva had allocated the amount, escalators would be provided in the sub-ways at platform number two and three.

Mr. Siva, who inaugurated the Passenger Reservation System put up jointly by Department of Posts and Railways, promised to bear all the expenses for putting up the escalator at Tiruchi Railway Junction. He lauded the services of Postal Department and railways. “The Passenger Reservation Facility will help people in the area,” he said.

First reservation at the counter was made by an 87-year-old passenger Krishnamurthy. Mr. Siva handed over the reserved ticket to Mr. Krishnamurthy.

J.T. Venkateswarlu, Post Master General, Central Region Tamil Nadu, said Teppakulam post office was the seventh in Tiruchi postal region to have the Passenger Reservation Facility.

The other post offices which offered the facility are Aravakurichi, Muthupettai, Peravurani, Pudukottai Head Post Office, Renganagar, and Golden Rock. Core banking facility had been introduced in head post offices in the region, he said.

Source : http://www.thehindu.com/