Lakkar bridge gets new deadline: December 22

Accompanied by DRM of Ferozepur railway division N C Goyal,Chander inspected the station and said that the design and funding were all ready for installing escalators on the local railway station and work on it would start within a month.

Chander said it was only after the intervention of Ludhiana MP Manish Tewari that this special inspection had been done and the work to complete the bridge,which was proposed way back in 1997,had been accelerated.

The proposal for prepaid taxis which would be run in coordination with traffic police was ready and would be sent to the railway board,he said. A new reservation window,a new Shatabdi from Ludhiana to New Delhi,a new restaurant and extension of Bathinda train to Jodhpur and Bikaner up to Ludhiana were also on the cards,he said.