AGARTALA, March 28 (TIWN): A few hours of moderate rain on Monday morning collapsed 800 meter of Dharmanagar railway platform which has created much turmoil among the railway passengers. Reportedly, Dharmanagar railway station was earlier allegedly using poor material in the construction work, due to bad maintenance and lack of supervision under the observation of Engineer Chittaranjan Paul (infamous for bribery and rampant corruption). With the collapse of railway platform, resentments brewing among the common people of Dharmannagar. Reportedly, 2 high officials including DCM B.K.Misra, R . K Mandal DOM visited here in Dharmanagar rail station on Saturday as a part of inspection and took a survey of various works. Sources said that officials expressed displeasure about the track works and also other ongoing works. Many works however still far from getting over at Dharmanagar railway station including few tracks also. In comparison to Agartala rail station, Dharmanagar rail station work not progressing rapidly due to corruption and contractor lobbies. Whereas all the railway works held in Tripura are in good shape but Dharmanagar rail station the work was undergoing little slow and allegation were coming for poor construction work, until the NFR officials had inspected the rail station. From control room to the tracks laid at there had been inspected, but NFR inspection team expressed displeasure after the inspection.

However allegation has also been raised earlier by the locals that the filling work which was going on at that station seemed of poor quality.

Due to lack of proper observation the working quality has became low.

Moreover, many parts of the Dharmanagar railway station, which were constructed long back ,tracks are suffering from lack of maintenance. However, after the inspection the worker now has speeded up their works and the works are going in full swing.

Today with the collapse of Railway platform caused huge resentment has raised among the local public.