- Railway officials are also in the dock for illegal recovery from passengers in the station premises
- Station director is sitting in his chamber waiting to get the complaint
Jamshedpur. Law and order in the premises of Tatanagar railway station has come under question. Common travelers want to know in whose hands is the administration here? Who is running the administration here, the railway officer or the parking contractor? The important question is that for three days illegal recovery was being done from the passengers by putting automatic barriers here and the railway officials were not aware of this. Station director Raghuvansh Kumar has told in a statement given to the local media that he is not aware of the recovery. He definitely said that recovery should not be done for five minutes. But it is not clear which agency will determine this? Who will make the recovery and if it is handed over to the contractor what should be the criteria prescribed for this?
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On Saturday, when the news of illegal recovery in the parking’s dropping line came to the fore in the local media, the railway administration woke up. Earlier this matter was conveyed to the top railway officials through various means that Chakradharpur Divisional Railway Administration has issued a new circular in a hurry, which fact was not in the parking tender? In a letter sent to the Zonal Railway Vigilance and Vigilance Director, it has been described as an arrangement made to benefit the contractor. Till now the railways is silent on this fact, but the contractor, citing the same letter, hastily started recovery by installing an electronic gate here. When the passengers protested, there was a ruckus. Here it is going to be known who issued this letter and under what circumstances when it was issued.
According to the things that have come to the fore so far, according to the Railway Commercial Department, by issuing a letter to the contractor in the month of July other than the term condition of the parking, it has been made available that he can recover the fee from the dropping line also. Although many clauses have also been included in this, but under the guise of this, the railway contractor has started charging fee from every vehicle passing through here. Not only this, citing this letter of the railway, the employees of the contractor did not hesitate to take law and order in their hands. Now the employees have started talking about action on vehicles parked in no-parking, whose authority is with the Railway Police or RPF.
In fact, it has been a system in the past that People will bring the car in the dropping line of the station and leave the ride within five minutes. This has always been happening because they have the responsibility of law and order. But the former contractors misused this system and started recovery from every vehicle coming here. Railway contractors argue that they have taken the tender by paying a huge amount, then how will they compensate it? On this, the railway has legally given this fare to the contractor. But the new dispute is about the letter issued by the Railways after six months of the tender. Which is contrary to the basic terms of the tender. The question arises whether the officers have the right to make changes in the policy matters within six months of the tender, which also protects the interest of the contractor and not the passenger?
Railway is soon going to clarify its stand regarding this, in which the media will be told that under what circumstances new letters and guidelines were issued after six months of tender? Is it as per the original provision of the tender or not? If it is in the provision, then why was it not implemented in the beginning itself? Why has the roadway made through the middle of the railway parking been kept closed on which lakhs of rupees were spent for the convenience of the passengers? This will make it easier for the passengers to drop off their relatives. What arrangements have been made by the railways for the dropping of Tatanagar station in the second house?
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