South Central Railway (SCR) will unveil a new logo on October 8, to mark its completion of 40 years of service to the nation. | |
| The new logo, with a circular design highlighted by the outside impression of a railway track, and six stars denoting the six divisions of SCR, would be displayed on all SCR's locomotives alongside its old logo for a year. |
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| Announcing this at a press conference here, SCR general manager DN Mathur said SCR had resolved to provide better amenities and high technology facilities to its passengers during its ruby jubilee year. |
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| "SCR would invest around Rs 55 crore in providing passenger amenities this year as compared with Rs 38 crore last year," he said. |
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| Besides, it would be installing surveillance systems at Bhoiguda, Nampalli, Kachiguda, Tirupati, Raipur and Gunthakal stations by the end of this year. |
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| "Currently we have computer ticketing facility at 45 stations across our six divisions. This year, we are going to extend the facility to 40 more stations," he said. |
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| Mathur said that one of SCR's engineers had developed a GPS-based LCD monitoring system that would display the exact location of a running train. The railways had already designed a prototype of the monitoring system and had made a proposal to the Union railway ministry with regard to its installation. |
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| "We are awaiting the ministry's nod in a couple of months. Once we get the approval, we would install the system in all our chair cars by March 2007," he said. |
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| Besides the release of a new logo, he said, SCR was planning to organise various programmes from October 8-18 which include releasing of a hand book "" South Central Railway: 40 Glorious Years "" , releasing of a special postal cover, flagging off a commemorative heritage steam train from Secunderabad to Falaknuma and beyond, and inauguration of a 'Rail Heritage Museum' at SCR's butterfly shed in Secunderabad. |
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