RAILWAYS and DELAYS

Dear Friends,

As u have known, for my earlier SMS one month back regarding coach indication boards at chittoor station, the railways replied that tenders have been already discharged and work will be completed by September. 

But as you people would have noticed that the work has not even started in station. This tender wad finalised last year but no work initiation till now. So I got puzzled. SMSed back expecting a reply that a little more delay is expected etc etc 

But what i got was a shock. Now check the drama

Message : Sir, although the tender for led based coach indication boards has been discharged for CHITTOOR station, the work has not yet started.kindly rectify the delay

Registration Id : '1007180026'    Time stamp : 2010-07-18 12:06:45.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	Due to modification in RDSO spec, the est are recasted and are under vetting. The tenders will be refloated and work will be taken on priority.

That means every thing is cancelled now  Now new tenders will be called up. Then tenders will have to be finalised. Then the contractor can start the work at snails pace at his will. We chittoreans will keep on waiting to see some basic development. 

This is always what is happening to works related to cto. 

Now our duty is to constantly put pressure on them till last board is fixed on cto railway platform. 

All we need is strenght of no's. So pls ask your friends and coworkers from Ctr to join our association. 

Yours sincerely

Venkatesh 

APOLLO REACH HOSPITAL IN CHITTOOR

Apollo Hospitals, one of the largest private hospital chains in India, is setting up secondary and tertiary care facilities Karaikudi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Karimnagar and CHITTOOR. 

This is part of Apollo Hospital's programme to set up 3,000 beds across the rural areas of the country under the Apollo-Reach initiative.

Apollo-Reach initiative is aimed at by opening up hospitals in the rapidly emerging tier 2 and tier 3 cities in India.

"We are in the process of setting up hospitals in Karaikudi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Karimnagar and CHITTOOR and plans of establishing more facilities across the country are already underway,"Dr Prathap C Reddy, chairman Apollo Hospitals has stated in reports.

According to him, setting up hospitals in rural or semi-urban areas is a rigorous, time-consuming procedure. however, Apollo's experience in setting up hospitals across the country has helped the company accurately identify cities and towns that are in urgent need of healthcare facilities.

Apollo targets to have 50 Apollo-Reach hospitals in 5 years. The Hyderabad, south Indian company aims to increase the number of hospitals to 10 from the current three Apollo-Reach hospitals and the target by 2011.

DISTRICT HOSPITAL, CHITTOOR

Friends,
these are the latest developments in chittoor

1. Chittoor District Hospital achieved ISO 2008 recognition. With this
the hospital will be upgraded to super speciality status. This status
was conferred by National Health Systems Resource Centre, which is a
central govt organisation. Along with chittoor, eluru was also
selected for this purpose.

Chittoor District Hospital will now be upgraded to 400 or 500 beds
(from present 330 beds). A modern pathology and diagnostic lab will
be established. Medical, Surgical, ENT, Eye, Ortho and Dental wings
with 2 professors and 10 junior doctors will be recruited. All the
facilities are to be upgraded to super speciality status and
greater emphasis on cleanliness. Hope all this happens fast filling
up the lacuna if much needed health care in Chittoor.

Coming to similar news, APOLLO hospitals pvt limited is going to
construct a new hospital at murukambattu with 300 bed capacity called
as APOLLO REACH HOSPITAL. The construction work is to start by
September. Presently fencing work is going on.

Recently CMC director has announced that chittoor cmc campus will
start functioning with primary health care from September. The
facilities will be sequentially upgraded.

It's showering hospitals friends.

Stand with PRIDE

Though I am strictly apolitical and personally always wished N
Chandrababu Naidu could have done a lot for Chittoor when he had the
oppurtunity as CM, i strongly condemn the behaviour of Maharashtra
govt in treating Telugu elected representatives. Whatever might be the
reason for TDPs visit, it is not how elected representatives are to be
treated. We shouldn't keep silent if our fellow statesmen are treated
shabbily.

Why is govt mum on this matter. YSR wouldn't hve remained silent. If
present govt is so afraid of political mileage, it should remember
that people are watching.

I wish Telugu people are united to stand with Pride

MASTER PLAN FOR CHITTOOR

Friends here is the master plan for chittoor as planned by Praveen. These are more realistic and implementable as such things are already done in other towns and cities of our ANDHRA PRADESH

1) Widening and four laning of all principal roads upto 10-14 kms:

    .it means ,,,Gangadharanellore =10 kms,Yadamari= 11.5 kms,Agarampalle (kanipakam) = 12 kms, K.G.Sathram = 14 kms,Banda Palle =11.5 kms, Gudipala = 14 kms.. from Centre of chittoor.  

 2)Bi laning of other roads..likes of Thazambedu,Kodigutta,Anuppalle roads...

3) Pedestrian footh pathson all the ways - from 4kms, from GS

4) a)Express Bus Stop for every kilometer...Shelter constructed in BLR style...carrying full lighting..Advertising space...
b)Ordinary bus stop/City bus stop for 0.5 kilometer......Sada Bus Shelter....

5)Circles well widened.... with Statues of contributors to CTR city....with all signal boards, traffic signals being set up

6) Archs at the City limits carrying welcome to CHITTOOR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION,CHITTOOR -DT,AP....with distance boards with distance info to GS...,from all the directions(principal roads)

7)At the start of every n end of Area & Locality on the main roads...the area name plates should be erected...

8) Encouraging the usage of alternate roads in the peak hours,likes of tank bund road( by the side of Gangineni Cheruvu), Krishnaveni college to BV reddy Clny road,(via deer park)...etc,,

9) All the Circles & Y,T - junctions should be appropriately named....carrying the Area indicating boards towards the respective directions.....

100 years of being a dist hqrs town and 93 Years of muncipality,This is what we can dream of, with lot of hopes in heart and waiting for the right time.

WAKE UP

Hi,
Today I was talking to a person from anantapur. He had been to Ctr 4 times it seems. He says it is a very backward place. It looks like a small town, no development...etc etc. I was very sad. If this is the situation nearly 100 years after Ctr formation, what next????.

He was right. He said what he observed. But what abt those idiots simply sitting in Ctr and looking at other places developing a lot day by day. But us? Even if we visit once in 2 years u will notice no change. Every road will be same. Still using same old tubelights for street lighting. Same old crowded streets. Not a single good road or a good park.

But comedy is that some people sitting there as representatives of Ctr think a lot had been done to Ctr. Ctr saw development like never before. Are these people really blind. Can't they see other towns even smaller than Ctr flourishing. We are the poorest in infrastructure
when compared to any other dist hqrs, even srikakulam and adilabad are far far better.

Even kumbhkarna had some method of waking up. But our representatives are in permanent coma. God save Ctr from them.

Demolitions at CHITTOOR Railway Station

Recently the approach road to RS was widened and a bilane cement road
was laid. But after this, last Sunday the railway authorities sudenly
came with bulldozers etc and demolished all the jaggery godowns on
either side of the railway station road.

Going into details of it-in 1968 the railway authorities permitted
jaggery merchants to build godowns in railway land for a lease of 25
yrs. After the lease was expired, it was extended for another 5 years.
Ultimately with increasing passenger numbers and revenues, railways
reclaimed this land for development. This went into legal hurdles. But
once legal sanction was obtained the demolitions took place.

Though it's good thing that railway station and premises will see
further development, sad thing is that merchants who lived for 40
years are suddenly displaced. It would have been much better if they
would have been offered land near kattamanchi market yard. Which would
have made everyone happy.

Now to wait n watch what railway authorities are going to do with this
reclaimed land.

CRTA & Railways-1

Friends,

Look at some interactions between railways grievance cell and our CRTA through it's member Praveen. 

Let us thank Praveen ks for his effort. 

1)
 

Message : Sir like to know about any plans to introduce or divert train in the route Vellore city- chittoor town(would be city)-MPL-DMVM soon?

Registration Id : '1006190005'     Phone Number :+919581753170    Time stamp :2010-06-19 11:59:53.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	This subject pertains to Headquarters. However, soon after getting information in this regard,public will be informed.

2)

Message : Sir,would like to bring to your notice the need for providing filtered drinking water in this spring at the CHITTOOR station along strictly maintaining hygienic conditions

Registration Id : '1006220005'     Phone Number :+919581753170    Time stamp :2010-06-22 12:19:20.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	RO water plant is under construction to supply RO water on some of the water taps on all platforms. This will be commissioned soon.

3)

Message : Sir, clarify about the fund allocation and works already done and which are to be taken at CHITTOOR station as an ADARSH station

Registration Id : '1006200006'     Phone Number :+918099295046    Time stamp :2010-06-20 13:51:23.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	Workare sanctioned to provide amenities by engineering, electrical and S&T department at a total cost of 3.83 crores. Tenders will be floated and all kinds of amenities will be taken up to develop the station as Adarsh station. Further details if necessary may be collected from divisional office

4)

Message : Isn't this feasible running the biweekly train between tirupati & hyderabad via pakala,guntakal on katpadi - hyderabad via pakala, guntakal in the remaining days of the week?

Registration Id : '1006210002'     Phone Number :+918099295046    Time stamp :2010-06-21 09:29:38.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	After introduction 2731/2732 SC-TPTY-SC Express and basing on patronisation your suggestion will be referred to Rly. board.

5)

Message : Sir, since when the "RVS NAGAR " station would be expected to become functional?

Registration Id : '1006250011'     Phone Number :+918099295046    Time stamp :2010-06-25 13:07:15.0

 

S.No	ActionTaken
1	In sufficient information. Please resend your complaint/suggestion along with details

6)

Message : How long would it take to get the RVS NAGAR@ MUTHIREVULU station near CHITTOOR into use .

Registration Id : '1006290009'     Phone Number :+918099295046    Time stamp :2010-06-29 12:03:40.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	Proposals has been sent to Head Quarters, it is under process.

7)

Message : How committed is railways to construct a foot over bridge from railway station to CHITTOOR central bus station, if yes,how soon can we expect that?

Registration Id : '1006290021'     Phone Number :+918099295046    Time stamp :2010-06-29 18:57:06.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	Railway will not take up any work of construction of FOB on its own for connecting from railway area to outside the railway area unless requested by State/local authorities. The cost of such construction will have to be borne by the requesting authority. Railway constructs FOB as required connecting one platform to other within railway land.

8)

Message : Sir, what are the chances to set up CHITTOOR NORTH railway station at Murukambat for the benefit of 11,000 population of Murukambat,Doddipalli,Koka Vandlur areas of CHITTOOR

Registration Id : '1006260009'     Phone Number :+919581753170    Time stamp :2010-06-26 12:24:05.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	Thank you for your suggestion. It will be examined.

CRTA & Railways-2

These are few earlier responses from railways

Complaint: Sir, the station name indication boards are non existent on platforms in chittoor(cto) station. It is becoming very difficult for identifying station in the night from inside train.pls provide them at the earliest.

Registration Id : '1006010008'      Time stamp : 2010-06-01 15:56:44.0

Reply:

S.No	ActionTaken
1	Works for provision of station name indication boards will be taken up in the current year i.e., 2010-11.

Message : Sir, the coach indication boards for which tenders were called last year have not yet been installed at chittoor station. Pls take necessary action

Registration Id : '1005250020'    Time stamp : 2010-05-25 21:34:44.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	Works sanctioned in LSWP. Tender discharged. But works were stalled due to ongoing cover over platform works. Coach  guidance and at a glance info LED boards Will be provided by Nov.1

Complaint: Sir.,in chittoor station the platform does nt have anti slip tiles.kindly take action

Registration Id : '1006140001'    Time stamp : 2010-06-14 12:14:23.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	The work will be taken up in due course and as a part of Adarsh station.

Message : Sir, we(Chittoor Rail Travellers Association) greatly appreciate your cooperation and support. Kindly hasten the adarsh station works of chittoor(cto) station

Registration Id : '1006240004' Time stamp : 2010-06-24 14:50:06.0

S.No	ActionTaken
1	Work is sanctined to provide amenities by Engineering, Electrical and S&T departments with a total cost of Rs.3.83 crores. Tenders will be floated for all kinds of amenities will be provided to develop the Chittoor as ADARSH Station.