Mysore/Mysuru: South Western Railway (SWR), Mysuru Division, held a meeting with members of the newly constituted Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee (DRUCC) on Thursday in the Conference Hall of Divisional Railway Manager’s Office in city.

In all, 9 members representing various forums, sectors and representatives of elected members from across the division attended the meeting chaired by Rahul Agarwal, Divisional Railway Manager, Mysuru Division.

Various issues relating to the improvement of passenger services coming under the jurisdiction of the Mysuru division were discussed during the meeting.

In his inaugural address, Rahul Agarwal highlighted the remarkable achievements of SWR Mysuru division during the financial years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 even during the backdrop of the Covid pandemic affecting the whole world. He informed that various initiatives were taken up for infrastructure developments in various stations across the division and said the highest priority was accorded to the safety and security of passengers and  Mysuru division was committed to the development and provision of better facilities for rail users.

DRUCC members discussed various issues like enhancement of passenger facilities at Davangere, Harihar and Haveri Railway Stations, Increase in frequency of train services from Mysuru to Dadar, Ajmer and Nizamuddin from weekly and bi-weekly to four days a week, speeding up of all superfast train running in Mysuru-Bengaluru section, augmenting AC coaches in Malgudi Express running between Mysuru-Bengaluru, new train services connecting Mysuru with the coastal region of Karnataka via Hassan and Mangaluru,  restoration of all train services from Talguppa and Shivamogga Town towards Chennai and Mysuru which were being operated during pre-covid period and also to start new train services from Shivamogga Station connecting various State capitals like Secunderabad and Bhubaneswar and requested for speeding up of work of sanctioned coach care centre at Kotegangur near Shivamogga.

The members expressed their satisfaction over the developmental activities undertaken by the division including cleanliness, introduction of special trains, augmentation of coaches etc., and appreciated the efforts made for getting various works sanctioned including the expansion of Mysuru and Naganahalli Stations.

Rahul Agarwal assured that all their suggestions would be looked into and addressed suitably in a time span.

DRUCC members C.S. Niranjan, Gundlupet MLA,  Rohit Kumar S. Jain, General Secretary, Passengers Committee, Davangere, B.S. Chandrashekara, Secretary, Nanjangud Industries Association, Srinivas Murthy, Advisor, MMEC Siding Logistics, Mahavir Chand Bhansali, Hon. Treasurer, Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, M. Dhanpal, President, Hassan District Chamber of Commerce & Industries, S.S. Uday Kumar, Director, Shivamogga District Chamber and Commerce Industries, Lakshmisagara Cheluve Gowda and Chinnaiah, nominated by Lok Sabha MP represented the Committee. Additional Divisional Railway Managers I & II Devasahayam and E.Vijaya, Manjunath Kanamadi, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Mysuru, Lohitheshwar, Senior Divisional Operations Manager, K. Ravichandran, Senior Divisional Engineer (Co-ordination) and other Senior Officers attended the meeting.