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South Central Railway accused of discrimination by TRS
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HYDERABAD: Accusing railway authorities of showing discrimination while providing amenities to passengers in Telangana region, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) on Wednesday urged...
more... railway minister Mukul Roy to restore the number of coaches for Ramagiri/ Singareni passenger and Nagpur passenger.
In a letter addressed to the railway minister, former party MP B Vinod Kumar sought his help in augmenting the load for the Ramagiri/ Singareni passenger to 24 coaches and Kazipet-Nagpur passenger to 20 coaches so that the deficiency of services could be mitigated up to some extent.
He said SCR authorities had recently reduced the coaches from 19 to 14 for Ramagiri/ Singareni passenger and from 15 to 12 for Nagpur passenger resulting in a lot of inconvenience to people of Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam districts.
He said the Ramagiri train between Kazipet and Balarsha/ Sirpur town & Kazipet, the Singareni passenger train between Balarsha and Bhadrachalam road/ Bhadrachalam road and Sirpur town and the Nagpur passenger were serving people efficiently and over the years had indeed become the lifeline for people in these districts.
In view of the demand , the railway administration had gradually increased the number of coaches from 12 to 19 in a phased manner for Ramagiri and Singareni passenger and from 8 to 15 coaches for the Nagpur passenger, he said.
"Even after the augmentation of the number of coaches to these trains, the general public is facing undue hardship during summer as well as the festival season as no special trains were introduced in north Telangana region.
"However, SCR has been introducing summer, holiday and festival special trains in various routes between Secunderabad/ Visakhapatnam, Secunderabad/ Vijayawada, Secunderabad/ Machilipatnam, Secunderabad/ Kakinada and Secunderabad/ Guntur (all in Andhra region)," he said.
The TRS leader accused SCR of ignoring the necessity of rail transportation to the people who reside in Telangana region from where railways have been earning thousands of crores every year through freight transportation such as coal, cement, granite and food grains.
