WR draws up guidelines for crowd control at stations

MUMBAI: Before Holi, Western Railway drew up a summary of over 10 pages on the planning and execution of measures to be taken for preventing crowding and untoward incidents at railway stations. WR draws up guidelines for crowd control at stations The guidelines broadly include creating additional infrastructure, creating holding areas, stopping the sale of platform tickets and having entry/exit control points among others. The guidelines also mandate clear signage and public address systems to direct the crowd and the creation of holding areas to accommodate 3,000 passengers at a time. Passengers will be kept in these holding areas depending on train timings and crowd accumulation.” The official said that ticket sales for destinations would be monitored on an hourly basis, and if the numbers for a particular destination went over the average, higher-ups would be informed so that measures could be taken for a potentially larger crowd. Another rail official said that the guidelines were directions for better planning and execution whenever large crowds were expected at railway stations.