BHOPAL: Utter chaos prevails at Bhopal railway station owing to confusion over dates for renovation of platform no 1. Dates for renovation work has been rescheduled to December 1 to January 9, 2017 from the earlier schedule of November 3. However, rumors about work in progress at the platform inconvenienced passengers. Passengers who had booked tickets in advance were not informed about the shift in schedule of renovation work and some tried boarding trains through different platforms or stations.
There are many passengers from old city, who had to travel, 7.2 kilometres all the way to Habibganj railway station on Thursday, as they booked tickets from Habibganj station, and to prevent themselves from paying any fine for ticketless travel between Bhopal and...
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Renovation dates were shifted by Bhopal rail division to facilitate the people turning up to participate in Ijtema (one of the largest Muslim religious congregations) in Bhopal, which will be held from November 26 to 28. People from different parts of the globe arrive here to participate in the three-day Ijtema.source TOI