73 Major Stations Facing Rush Situations to Have a Station Director, Empowered to Take “On-the-Spot Decongesting Decisions ” Like Restricting Sale of Tickets as per Capacity & Availability of Trains During Festive Rush

73 Major Stations Facing Rush Situations to Have a Station Director, Empowered to Take “On-the-Spot Decongesting Decisions ” Like Restricting Sale of Tickets as per Capacity & Availability of Trains During Festive Rush

Indian Railways has planned following actions to handle heavy rush of passengers at stations over the Indian Railways: –

1. Creation of Permanent holding areas at 73 identified stations:

 

2. Access control:

 

3. Wider Foot-over-bridges (FOB):

 

4. Cameras:

 

5. War rooms:

 

6. New generation communication equipment:

 

7. New design ID card:

 

8. New design uniform for staff:

 

9. Upgradation of Station Director post:

 

10. Sale of tickets as per capacity:

Further, the following steps are being taken in coordination with other stakeholders to control the rush at stations:-

 

This information was provided by the Union Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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