Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee (DRUCC) meeting was held on 28/05/2015 at Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Office Trivandrum. DRUCC members under Trivandrum division and Senior officials from the Railways were present in the meeting. DRM Sri. Sunil Bajpai presided the function, Sr. DCM Mr.Sudheesh delivered the vote of thanks. Prathidhwani executive member Sri Sivasankar participated in the meeting as representative of Technopark.
As part of the meeting ,Agenda submitted by Prathidhwani was considered and was discussed with high importance. We had good preparation for the DRUCC meeting with data and concerns we collected from employees. DRM responded very positively for all our requests. One of the major concern raised by Prathidhwani was the Train stoppage issue, due to the current heavy traffic in this division the Railway is finding it difficult to allot new stoppages but DRMs response was very positive and said he will definitely look in to the matter, Prathidhwani is planning to meet the officials exclusively to discuss this matter.
Another concern raised was the Infrastructure facilities and Security issues at Kazakootam Station. The Commercial division is working on infrastructure improvements and the work related to this will commence soon. The Security matters were also taken in to account.
Here are the few highlights of the DRUCC meeting;
- 1.95 crore programme to develop the Kazhakootam(KZK)railway station infrastructure and facilities.
- Seating facility will be arranged soon from MP fund.
- 2 ATVMs -Ticket vending machines will be installed by the month of May 2015 in Kazhakootam station.
- Train Stoppage: Exclusive meeting with the officials to discuss on this.
- DRM will call an open meeting in Technopark inviting Technopark officials, Companies and Employees to collectively discuss on our concerns and also support railways to serve us better. Prathidhwani will coordinate this meeting
- Dedicated National security No 138 & 182 for any security issues in train will be made applicable
- ZRUCC(Zonal) representative was selected through voting and Mr.Paul (Registered Passengers association representative) was selected to represent the division at the zonal level.
- Refreshment: A catering stall was awarded recently for KZK, but the awardee has not accepted the offer. A proposal is in for new restaurant for which applications will be called shortly.
- Security :RPF will be deployed in the evening hours and Special occasions at KZK
- MEMU service will be allocated a head of Maveli express so that commuters in Maveli can make use of this as a connection to the Varkala station.