Lucknow: For Suresh Kumar Sapra, who took over as Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), Lucknow, North Railway, on Monday, the main task was to complete the development of the Ayodhya train station at the end of the financial year.
Sapra, a civil engineer who has served in the Kashmir Valley affected by militants for nearly 14 years, oversees the construction of the Qazigund-Baramulla railway route and the development of the Vaishno Devi Katra train station, also aims to accelerate the work of the tracks associated with doubling tracks.
In the division for faster shipping train movements.
In an exclusive interview for TOI, the 1990 Indian train service from the engineer officers said, “Challenges in the valley are different from the upcoming challenges of Godetic at Uttar Pradesh.
I was an executive engineer when we started a survey for the construction of Qazigund-Baramulla Rail Stretch in 1997 when militanti Located at its peak.
Our team consisting of 20-25 men escorted by CRPF troops armed with machine guns and metal detectors.
Then, in 2002, during a survey for the Rail route Katra-Qazigund, we had to travel for 12-14 hours .
“What motivates us in completing the Valley project is the hospitality of the local population.
They have to walk for days, bring patients in the couch, to reach the nearest motorcycle roads.
Most of them don’t have a train trip experience.
Here we have to strengthen the train infrastructure in densely populated areas.
But we will meet expectations, “said A Lumnus IIT.