Passengers throng city rail station for advance tickets
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
FE Report
Home-bound people continue to throng the Kamalapur railway station in the city Monday for tickets in advance to celebrate the Eid festival with their dear and near ones.
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) which expected to carry around 16000 passengers a day during the period from September 25 to October 1 took the move to run four special trains from September 29 to October 1 to ease the suffering of the home-bound people.
The trains will ply in Dhaka-Chittagong, Dhaka-Dewanganj, Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Rajshahi routes.
However, it was found that some passengers remained in queue from Monday afternoon for a single ticket to be given Tuesday morning.
Abul Kalam, a Dinajpur-bound passenger, told the FE that he remained in queue from Monday 3.0 pm for a ticket which would be given next day morning at 8.0 am.
The BR has been selling train tickets in advance since September 18 and this will continue until tomorrow (Wednesday). It will sell 11,100 tickets in advance for different routes.
Station Manager at Kamalapur Rezaul Karim said, there is no chance for black marketeers this year as the authority has installed close circuit television cameras at the station and deployed RAB and other law enforcing agencies to assist them in selling tickets in advance.
Twenty-two inter-city trains with a capacity of around 16,000 seats and 12 mail trains with 10,000 seats and four special trains with around 2,500 seats will operate during the seven days starting from September 25.
Railway officials said they were giving a maximum of four tickets to a passenger at a time.
Home-bound people continue to throng the Kamalapur railway station in the city Monday for tickets in advance to celebrate the Eid festival with their dear and near ones.
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) which expected to carry around 16000 passengers a day during the period from September 25 to October 1 took the move to run four special trains from September 29 to October 1 to ease the suffering of the home-bound people.
The trains will ply in Dhaka-Chittagong, Dhaka-Dewanganj, Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Rajshahi routes.
However, it was found that some passengers remained in queue from Monday afternoon for a single ticket to be given Tuesday morning.
Abul Kalam, a Dinajpur-bound passenger, told the FE that he remained in queue from Monday 3.0 pm for a ticket which would be given next day morning at 8.0 am.
The BR has been selling train tickets in advance since September 18 and this will continue until tomorrow (Wednesday). It will sell 11,100 tickets in advance for different routes.
Station Manager at Kamalapur Rezaul Karim said, there is no chance for black marketeers this year as the authority has installed close circuit television cameras at the station and deployed RAB and other law enforcing agencies to assist them in selling tickets in advance.
Twenty-two inter-city trains with a capacity of around 16,000 seats and 12 mail trains with 10,000 seats and four special trains with around 2,500 seats will operate during the seven days starting from September 25.
Railway officials said they were giving a maximum of four tickets to a passenger at a time.