Title - Plea to turn Nashik Road station into terminus

NASHIK: The district administration wants the Nashik Road station to be turned into a terminus and will take up the issue with the railway authorities, a senior official from the district collectorate said."We want Nashik Road station to become a terminus. The issue came up during a meeting with the divisional revenue commissioner that was attended by railway officials," said the official."The railway officials said they had sent a proposal twice to their higher ups, but nothing happened. We then decided to take up the issue with assistance from state government officials, if needed," he said.It was then decided that the issue must be taken up with railway authorities at higher levels, with assistance from state government officials, if need be.There is also a communication gap between the railways and the collectorate over the officials who are to be called for meetings. The local railway authorities said they cannot take decisions such as upgrading passenger amenities and insisted that their officials at the divisional level be called, while the collectorate wanted the railways to depute an official for the talks.

There is also a communication issue between the railway officials and the collectorate over officials to be called for meetings. While the railways have been demanding that the collectorate should call the divisional level officials for such issues as the local authorities have no powers to decide and spend on the various measures required for the upgradation of passenger amenities or even otherwise, the collectorate is saying that the railways should depute an official for the talks.

"We have asked officials at collectorate to send a communique to our divisional railway office which will take a call on deputing an official for the cause," a railway official at Nashik Road said. The official, however, said that railways officials should have discussed the issue among themselves and asked their seniors to depute an official. for the kumbh related meetings.

"When our officers invited the local railway authorities during the last kumbh, they called one of their senior officials for the meetings. Why can't they do it now?" the official questioned.

"During the last kumbh, when our officers invited the local authorities, and they in turn got a senior person for the meetings - during the last kumbh. Why can't they do it now?" the official questioned.