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MANGALORE: The meeting of newly constituted divisional railway users' consultative committee (DRUCC) was held at railway divisional office at Palakkad on Tuesday. This is 149th meeting of DRUCC. There are 19 members in the committee and they are representatives of members of parliament, chamber of commerce, merchants association, railway passenger associations, association for physically challenged, and so on.

Tenure of this committee is for two years and the newly nominated members of this committee attended their first meeting. Out of 19 members, 14 members were present. The members elected K N Ganesan, representing Tirur Chamber of Commerce as their representative to zonal railway users' consultative committee (ZRUCC) which is functioning at Southern Railway headquarters at Chennai.

Piyush Agarwal, chairman of DRUCC and divisional railway manger, Palakkad who presided over the meeting said members of DRUCC are ears and eyes of railways and requested members to help railways by giving valuable suggestions to improve the passenger amenities in the division. P A Dhanajayan, senior divisional commercial manager welcomed the members and briefed about Palakkad division through power point presentation.

Mohan A Menon, additional divisional railway manager delivered vote of thanks.