With vegetation and slush-filled circulating (parking) area, inadequate platform shelters, shelter-less foot overbridge and many other lacunae, passenger amenities at Udupi Railway Station — which witnesses over 5,000 boarding and alighting passengers — are awfully inadequate, rue passengers.
The condition and facilities at the Station building under Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd., (KRCL) are an insult to the stature of Udupi City, which is a district headquarters, a popular pilgrimage and tourism centre and an education and healthcare hub (Manipal), regretted Paniyadi Srinivas Rao, who resides close to the Station in Indrali.
Visitors and passengers are forced to park their four and two-wheelers in slushy circulating (parking) area covered with thick vegetation and wait for trains in the rain. Neither is there proper lighting in the area, he said highlighting the failure of the parking area contractor in its maintenance and KRCL’s apathy in reprimanding him.
