New Koilaghat building fire hits 700 railway ticket reservation counters The servers in the building are used by six zonal railways for their online as well as offline bookings
Railway ticket reservation counters from Calcutta to Hyderabad, Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh and Assam’s Tinsukia had stopped working for several hours since Monday night after the fire at Eastern Railway’s New Koilaghat Building forced officials to cut power supply to the servers inside the building.
Railways officials said around 700 passenger reservation counters or points used by passengers to reserve seats were stalled because of the fire in the 14-storied building.
An official of the Eastern Railway said that they had cut off power supply in the building from around 6pm. But the silver lining was that till late on Monday there was no damage to the servers and the fire had not spread to the rooms where the servers are installed.
The official, however, could not give a time by which the online booking could resume. Whenever the booking begins, the speed could be very slow, the official warned.
According to officials of the Eastern Railways, the signal and telecom department construction office on the 13th floor had caught fire that later spread across the floor and to the floor below.
Senior officials, including the Eastern Railway general manager, were present during the firefighting operation at the building on Monday evening, a railway spokesperson said.
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The blaze broke out at the New Koilaghat building, which is shared by the Eastern Railway and the South Eastern Railway, Eastern Railway spokesman Kamal Deo Das said.
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Fire breaks out at the 13th floor of a multi-storeyed building in Kolkata, Monday, March 8, 2021. (Photo | PTI) By Online Desk
KOLKATA: Nine persons, including four firefighters, a railway official, an RPF constable and an assistant sub-inspector of Kolkata police died in a fire that broke out on the 13th floor of a multi-storeyed building in Kolkata on Monday night.
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Kolkata: A fire broke out on the 13th floor of a multi-storeyed building, housing offices of the Railways, on Strand Road in Kolkata on Mar 8, 2021. (Photo: IANS/Kuntal Chakrabarty). Image Source: IANS News
Kolkata/New Delhi, March 9 : A day after nine people, including three railway official, one RPF personnel died in a fire incident in Kolkata railway office, the Ministry on Tuesday said that it has ordered a high-level probe.
Railway Ministry spokesperson D.J. Narain said, A four member probe team headed by Jaideep Gupta, Principal Chief Safety Officer with three other heads of Departments has been nominated for the inquiry into the fire incident.