Tatanagar station to instal cold water vending machines - Rs 3 per liter

Tatanagar is an A1 station and hosts a number of high-profile trains like the New Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express, Howrah-Mumbai Duronto Express and Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Superfast Express. I order to make ice cold water available to passengers of these trains and others who travel through Tatanagar, plans are afoot to provide water vending machines. The cost would be reasonable - one liter would cost only Rs 3 if a passenger has his or her own bottle. An extra amount of Rs 2 will be charged if someone needs chilled and bottled water.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 16 May 2016.

An average of 50,000 people travel through the station every day and the pure and chilled drinking water facilities on platforms two, three, four and five at pocket-friendly price would come as a boon to them. The facilities would be equipped with RO (reverse osmosis) purifiers. Platform One already has such a water purifier - it had been installed last July. The facility is being extended to other platforms.
However, while passengers have welcomed the initiative, shopkeepers who sell packaged drinking water on platforms are apprehensive of a drop in their business.


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