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No water-filling and even secondary maintenance facilities, says forum.The Kanyakumari District Railway Users’ Association here has urged the Railway Minister to announce Kanyakumari railway station as a terminal in the forthcoming railway budget.Its secretary P. Edward Jeni, in a memorandum to Union Minister for Railways Paswan Kumar Bansal, said that Kanyakumari railway station came under the jurisdiction of Thiruvananthapuram Division of the Southern Railway.The station became operational from 1979 with two platforms, when the Thiruvananthapuram-Nagercoil-Kanyakumari railway line was opened for traffic. The southernmost station in the country, being a major tourist centre, was served by many long distance trains. Trains originating from Kanyakumari were being operated to far –off destinations such as Dibrugarh, Jammu Tawi, New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, besides Bangalore and Chennai. Station was opened 34 years ago still the infrastructure has not been developed to meet the growing demands.