Title - Fulfilment of residents' demands Sonepat MLA writes to Union Railway Minister

Sonepat:
BJP MLA from Sonepat Kavita Jain has written a letter to Union Railway Minister Mallikarjun Khadke expressing resentment among people against the railway authorities for not fulfilling their longstanding demands, despite repeated pleas.She said if the railway authorities continued its neglecting attitude, people would be left with no option except to block the Delhi-Ambala railway track in support of their demands.Copies of the earlier communications with former railway ministers and other senior railway officers had also been enclosed with the letter.In the letter, she had pointed out that the scheduled visit of the Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) to Sonepat was being repeatedly postponed on one pretext or the other for the past one year and it had disillusioned members of the Dainik Rail Yatri Sangh.She had also mentioned about the pending demands of daily rail commuters in the letter that included stoppage of the Shan-e-Punjab, Pooja Express, Swaraj Express, Sachkhand Express and Pathankot Express trains at Sonepat; new passenger trains between 9.15am to 2.15 pm from Delhi to Panipat and between 3pm to 6.25pm from Panipat to Delhi and increase in number of compartments in the scheduled passenger train.

Other demands include toilets in EMU trains, a foot-over bridge near the old anaj mandi, increase in number of ticket counters, opening of an internet café, early completion of the Jind-Gohana-Sonepat railway line and upgrade of the hospital at the Sonepat railway station.