Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 9: BJP national leader and currently chairman Passenger Service Committee (PSC) Railway Board, Ministry of Railways, Ramesh Chandra Ratn, informed that there are 8000 Railways stations, 17 zones, 68 divisions, which come under the jurisdiction of PSC in matters related to services provided to the passengers from boarding a train till completion of ones journey anywhere in the country.
While addressing media persons at Jammu along with BJP State spokesperson, Balbir Ram Rattan, PSC members Gurvinder Singh Sethi and Surinder Bhagat, BJP leaders Virenderjit Singh, Ayodhya Gupta and Jeet Angral, he said the PSC appreciated the cleanness of Railway Station Katra and recommended to Ferozpur Division for grant of award in favour of senior DEN Willamjeet Singh for promoting Swachta Abhiyan inside the entire railway station area, thus making it most neat and clean.
Ramesh Chandra Ratn said that a team of PSC members, who is on four-day official visit to Jammu and Kashmir, inspected Katra Railway Station and an after finding some irregularities, penalties of Rs 50000 each were imposed on Doon Caterers and the venders, besides another penalty of Rs 15000 on the parking contractor for not maintaining the area properly.
He said that on the spot instructions were issued to ensure pasting of “no bill no payment” stickers at every stall under the jurisdiction of Katra Railway Station.
The PSC was of the view that there was urgent need of ATM at Katra Railway Station for the convenience of lakhs of passengers visiting the holy town every year and recommended the same to the higher authorities to do the needful at the earliest, Ratn said and added that the team will visit Kashmir as well.
PSC members Koushal Kishore Vidyarathi and Reshma Hussain also visited Katra Railway Station with the team.
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