PASSENGER AMENITIES
Every year, Railways
are making high allotments for passenger amenity works in its
endeavour to provide adequate amenities as per laid down down
norms at all stations. Railways endeavour is to eliminate the
deficiencies and plan the annual Works Programme accordingly.
For the current year, the allotment for passenger Amenities works
to Rs.200 crores. Further, to celebrate the 150th year
of Railway services, the coming year has been dedicated to ‘rail
traveler’ and has been declared as the "Passenger Amenities
Year"
Measures
like introduction of Jan Shatabdi coaches with upper class like
features in second class coaches, fitment of modern UIC type vestibules,
provision of user-friendly modular toilets, polyvinyl flooring
inside coaches, introduction of LHB type coaches with state of
the art passenger amenities and commencement of indigenous manufacture
of such coaches, pest control in all coaches through specialised
agencies, providing thorough cleaning facilities at nominated
stations under "cleaning train station scheme". Provision
of 110 Volts electrical fittings in place of conventional 24 Volts
renovation of rakes in between overhauls, mid-life rehabilitation
of coaches of 12-15 years age group, monitoring of passenger amenity
fittings through "zero missing fittings" etc. have been
taken for improvement of amenities in trains.
This
information was given by Shri O.Rajagopal, Minister of State for
Railways in a written reply to a question by S/shri Sunderlal
Tiwari, Satyavrat Chaturvedi, Uttamrao Dhikale, Ashok N.Mohol,
Ramsheth Thakur and A.Venkatesh Naik in the Lok Sabha today.
