Bengaluru: In an indication of the sorry state of affairs at Cantonment railway station, portions of the roof began to leak after Monday night\u2019s downpour.Passengers inconvenienced by the flooding said no action has been taken by railway authorities to resolve the issue despite several complaints. \u201cThe leaking roof shows that one of the major railway stations in the city is poorly maintained. An inquiry should be conducted and action should be taken against staff found responsible,\u201d said a passenger at the station.Videos of water gushing out of a drain spout also went viral. Umesh B Rao, co-founder of Institute for Research Development & Training of Construction Trades & Management, said the rainwater pipe\u2019s placement on the platform is wrong. \u201cSuch a drainage system is unacceptable,\u201d added the civil engineer. Rajkumar Dugar, founder of Citizens for Citizens, an NGO, said: \u201cCantonment is the oldest station in Bengaluru and is located in the heart of the city. Every year, it leaks during rain and railway officials are aware of the problem. But they haven\u2019t fixed it so far. This is a huge let down for rail passengers.\u201d Bengaluru divisional railway manager Shyam Singh was unavailable for comments.Revamp, suburban terminal proposals on paperSWR\u2019s ambitious plans to redevelop Cantonment railway station and convert it into a suburban terminal remain on paper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bengaluru: In an indication of the sorry state of affairs at Cantonment railway station, portions of the roof began to leak after Monday night\u2019s downpour.Passengers inconvenienced by the flooding said no action has been taken by railway authorities to resolve the issue despite several complaints. \u201cThe leaking roof shows that one of the major railway stations in the city is poorly maintained. An inquiry should be conducted and action should be taken against staff found responsible,\u201d said a passenger at the station.Videos of water gushing out of a drain spout also went viral. Umesh B Rao, co-founder of Institute for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}