Northern Railway discusses new intiatives in Lucknow, Muradabad divisions with MPs

New Delhi: TP Singh, General Manager, Northern Railway, held a meeting with the Members of Parliament of constituencies that come under the jurisdiction of Delhi divisions in New Delhi on Friday.

This is in accordance with the directives given by Minster of Railways Piyush Goyal, advising General Managers of Zonal Railways to increase public outreach to get feedbacks for providing better service to the nation.

Railway related issues in each constituency falling under northern railway were discussed with the public representatives to find solutions for the benefit of the passengers.

The GM briefed the MPs about the various developmental activities and new initiatives taken up by Northern Railway within the jurisdiction of Lucknow and Moradabad divisions.

Sanjay Tripathi, Divisional Railway Manager, Lucknow division and Tarun Prakash, Divisional Railway Manager, Moradabad division presented a report regarding the completed, ongoing and planned works relating to passenger amenities, infrastructure and services at stations and trains over their respective divisions.

Senior Officers of Northern Railway and Moradabad and Lucknow divisions also participated in the meeting.Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State, Ministry of Labour and Employment, General (Retd) V K Singh, Minister of State, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and MPs Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Maneka Gandhi, Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Dr. Swami Sakshi Maharaj, Lallu Singh, Shyam Yadav, Upendra Singh, Ritesh Pandey, S K Gupta, Kunwar Danish Ali, Sangh Mitra Maurya, Dr S T Hasan, Girish Chandra, Dr Shafiqur Rehman Barq, Arun Kumar Sagar, Malook Nagar, Javed Ali, Veer Singh, Dr Ashok Bajpai, P L Punia and G V L Narsimha Rao expressed their views in the meeting.

MPs appreciated the good work done by Northern Railway in the past five years in their constituencies. They also put forward various demands, requirements and aspirations of the rail users of their respected areas. They exhorted NR to complete the infrastructure and public convenience related projects on top priority.

They also volunteered to help wherever there was any co-ordination required with the state administration for timely completion of the projects. T P Singh, assured the Members of Parliament that Northern Railway would resolve the public grievances and issues put forward by them as early as possible. He further said that Northern Railway would always remain committed in the service of the passengers and rail users.

-Karun Sharma