Footbridge on cards for Tatanagar Station

Tatanagar station will get its third footbridge within one year.The engineering wing of Tatanagar railway has prepared a blueprint of the Rs2-crore project under which the third footbridge would come up next to the first one at the Kharagpur end of the station.Currently, the A1-categroty station has two footbridges.

The second bridge, costing Rs 1.90 crore, was inaugurated earlier this month. Tatanagar station director H.K. Balmuchu said Garden Reach, the headquarters of South Eastern Railway (SER), had approved the proposal of a third footbridge sent by the Chakradharpur railway division.

“The third footbridge would come up at the Kharagpur end of the station.The bridge will have the facility of a ramp for wheelchairs, battery van and parcel trolleys.