Mysuru railway station will soon get a touch screen navigation system for the benefit of passengers to ascertain the locations of various amenities on the station premises.
The “Station Navigation System” will be located at the current booking counter concourse and enable passengers to find out the amenities available at the station besides directions to access them by operating the touch screen system.
“The main menu will list out various passenger amenities available in the railway station like pharmacy, dormitory, restaurant, tea shops, drinking water facility, toilets, station manager’s office, advanced reservation counter, location of automatic ticket vending machines etc and the distance from the spot,” explained an official familiar with the works in progress.
The screen will indicate by way of arrow marks the direction to be taken, the distance to be covered and the exact location where a particular amenity is located, he added.
Such a system was installed at the Bengaluru city railway station (Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna station) last year and this is the first time that the station navigation system is being installed in the Mysuru Division.
The new facility has been funded under the MPLAD contribution of Pratap Simha, MP for Mysuru.
“This will complement a similar system with tactile maps of station installed for the visually impaired persons which made Mysuru railway station the first in the country to be visually handicapped –friendly,” he added.
Escalators installed
The works on escalators at the station is almost complete. Divisional Railway Manager Atul Gupta said though escalators are ready, it will be commissioned once the lifts too are ready for operations and this may take two months.
The escalator at the main concourse has been assembled and installed and is set to be tested. The two escalators are located on Platform 1 at the booking course and on Platform Number 6 on the CFTRI-side entrance.
A long-pending facility which has taken years to materialise, escalators were originally supposed to be procured at the local divisional levels.
But the government opted for centralised procurement following a change in policy which led to the delay.
