New Sweepers Turns Station Clean
Posted on: 07/Dec/2012 5:36:47 PM
New agency has been entrusted the upkeep of platforms 7 to 11 (zone II). The maintenance of platforms 1 to 6 (zone I) will be outsourced to an agency soon and operations launched in about two weeks.
Machinery worth Rs. 6 lakh and 43-member team in charge of upkeep of platforms 7 to 11.Under this news the city would also going to Under the new contract awarded to Pandidurai Agency for a period of three years, a team of 43 workers will be responsible for maintenance of the five railway platforms.
The most Cleaning works obtained by them are including common to other than, rag-picking, maintaining the foot over bridges and approach roads to the station, and also the 500-metre stretches on each end of the platforms. An the health inspector of the Railways system said that cleaning operations will be carried out with the help of machines vacuum cleaners, flipper mechanical floor cleaners, jet water cleaners and blower sweep machines worth about Rs. 6 lakh.
He added to us that Southern Railway’s medical department also renewed their contract with the same agency at Chennai Central though they have interchanged the zones of the contractors. The 14 platforms at Chennai Central have been divided into two zones for mechanized cleaning contracts.
