The expansion of the Ashokapuram railway station will be completed in due course and it will be commissioned in August.
The work entails adding two new stabling lines, two pit line and two additional platforms which will augment the capacity of the station to handle more traffic. A direct fallout will be the decongestion of the Mysuru railway station which handles more than 36 pairs of trains daily and is choked.
Mysuru MP Pratap Simha and Krishnaraja MLA T.S. Srivatsa were apprised of the work in progress by senior railway officials led by Divisional Engineer (Coordination) Ravichandran. He said the cost of the project was ₹30 crore of which ₹23 crore had been spent and the second entrance to the station from Jayanagar side was being constructed.
