General Manager, South Central Railway, P.K. Srivastava on Monday inaugurated a renovated Rail Kalarang, the 60-year-old multi-purpose function hall, and hoped it would find encouraging patronage of people, coming as it did, as a Republic Day gift.
The multi-functional hall now has air-conditioning, good acoustics and eye-pleasing lighting facilities that matched the best in the twin cities, making every railway employee proud, Mr. Srivastava said, addressing the gathering in the presence of Additional GM S.K. Agarwal, Divisional Railway Manager-Hyderabad, Rakesh Aron, General Secretary of the National Federation of Indian Railwaymen and SCR Employees Sangh M. Raghavaiah and General Secretary, SCR Mazdoor Union. Mr. Aron said the hall was an offshoot of the Railway administration’s focus on welfare needs of its employees and funds were allotted from the Staff Benefit Fund too. With a capacity to seat 900 people, it also has a VIP lounge-cum-mini function hall to accommodate 100 people.
Initially, Rail Kalarang comprised just a stage and an open auditorium. Later, it was renovated by providing a shed that was inaugurated by the then GM N. Krithivasan in the presence of late Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Initially it was maintained by Hyderabad division of SCR and later handed over to Lalitha Kala Samiti, its cultural.
