Southern Railway ranks high on IRCTC cleanliness survey 2018
Train travellers in Tamil Nadu and Kerala may have plenty to complain about the tidiness and hygiene, but the Railway Ministry seems to think otherwise. A nationwide train cleanliness survey 2018 conducted by IRCTC has put Southern Railway (SR) on top of the table in one category and third in another.
By : migrator
Update: 2019-01-22 00:12 GMT
Chennai
The survey, which classified trains in to premium category, including Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duranto trains, and other than premium category, including Sampark Kranti, Intercity, Jan Shatabdi and other important Mail/Express trains has awarded top rank to SR in the latter category with a score of 736 out of 1,000.
In the premium category, Chennai Central – Mysuru Shatabdi of SR has been ranked third in the country with a score of 906/1000. Chennai Central – Coimbatore Shatabdi has been ranked 9th with a score of 873 points against an all-India average of 844. Another premium train, Chennai – Nizamuddin Duranto, has got a score of 764 against all India average of 739.
In other than premium category trains, two Intercity trains of Southern Railway were selected out of a total of 20 such trains of Indian Railways. KSR Bangaluru – Ernakulam and Chennai Central – Coimbatore have bagged first and second position, scoring 789 and 782 respectively against an all India average of 627. Among the Jan Shatabdi trains, Trivandrum - Kozhikode and Chennai Central – Vijayawada bagged 2nd and 3rd position respectively scoring 766 and 738 against all India average of 613.
In other important Mail/Express trains category, seven trains of Southern Railway were selected out of a total of 73 trains of the Indian Railways. Tirupati – Jammu Tawi has bagged first position with a score of 885 and Chennai Egmore – Mangalore Central was ranked 4th with a score of 849, fetching it an overall ranking of 2nd in the category, scoring an average of 769 against an All India average of 684.
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