CRS for Kurseong Railway Station

Kurseong: The hill town will soon have its first computerised railway booking counter.

This was announced today by Kurseong MLA Shanta Chettri.

The GNLF legislator is a member of the Divisional Railway User Committee of the Northeast Frontier Railway, which has passed the proposal. Chettri claimed that she had long demanded that a counter should come up in Kurseong as it is an important station for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR).

“The proposal was passed at a meeting of the committee held last month. Now it is up to the railway department to start work on the project. It has been a long-standing demand of the residents of Kurseong and now people will not have to go all the way to Darjeeling or Siliguri to book their tickets,” Chettri told reporters this morning.

The setting up of the counter, however, would mean that the quota for Kurseong would cease to exist.

The MLA has also demanded that the additional director be posted at the DHR’s headquarters at Elysia Building near Doomaram bustee here. The building is not functional till date, though it was inaugurated last year.

Source: The Telegraph