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Title ; Need to open a railway booking counter at Kandi in Murshidabad
district of West Bengal.
SHRI ADHIR CHOWDHURY (BAHARAMPUR): In the Railway Budget, the Minister has proposed to open railway ticket booking counters at district headquarters and village panchayats with infrastructure support from local government/semi urban authority and private organizations.
The people of Kandi use to travel either to Salar, Berhampur in Murshidabad district or to Sainthia in Birbhum district to book ticket for reservation of berth in any train they choose to travel and thus face a lot of inconveniences. The Kandi Municipality has even offered space free of cost to the Eastern Railway for setting up a Railway Reservation counter. It has also offered to provide electricity and water required for running a reservation counter but nothing has been done by the Railways so far to open a counter.
I, therefore, request the Railway Minister to open a reservation counter in Kandi Municipality in order to have easy access to Railway tickets.