All ‘A1’ category stations of South Central Railway found a place in Top 20 Clean Stations of Indian Railways. Secunderabad station is the second cleanest station on Indian Railways in the A1 category, while Khammam was the second cleanest in the ‘A’ category stations.
An SCR release on Wednesday said the announcements came when Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu released a Third Party Audit Report on cleanliness of stations and also inaugurated the Swachh Rail Portal in New Delhi.
South Central Railway was ranked at No. 4 in the Cleanest Railway Zone category based on the average of total scores achieved by its ‘A1’ & ‘A’ Category Stations among the total of 16 Zones on Indian Railways. All the five A1 stations on SCR - Secunderabad, Vijayawada (No. 4), Kacheguda (No. 11), Hyderabad (No. 16)and Tirupati (No. 19) figured in the list of top 20 Clean Stations.
On the other hand, in the ‘A’ category stations Mancherial came No. 5, Warangal (No. 8), Kazipet (No. 17), Chirala (No. 25) and Nizamabad (No. 26). Parameters adopted to accord the rankings include cleanliness in party, main entry area, platform waiting room, passenger feedback and images geo-tagged from a 24 x 7 control room established to monitor progress, the release said.
