Union Minister of State for Railways Kotla Jayasuryaprakasa Reddy has said an amount of Rs. 5 crore has been sanctioned for construction of the fourth platform at Kurnool railway station.
Addressing a meeting in connection with the inspection of site for construction of second gate at the railway station from Venkata Ramana Colony side on Saturday, he said on the other side a booking counter, parking and other amenities would come up.
He said efforts were on to introduce the express train between Kurnool and Secunderabad which would be treated as inter-city train...
more... soon. The new platform would help provide a halt for Satabdi express. He said if all the installations were complete, 5,000 jobs would be generated.
Collector C. Sudharsan Reddy, MLC Sudhakar Babu, former Mayor S. Raghurami Reddy and others were present.