Even after three years, railway officials are clueless
A wagon carrying sports goods worth Rs 55 lakh dispatched from Jalandhar railway station in 2007 has failed to reach Kerala. Three years after the incident, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) is clueless. The department has no idea what happened to the goods that were ordered by the Mahatma Gandhi University of Kottayam. The university had cut a deal with a Punjab-based sports company that it would receive sports goods worth Rs 55 lakh through rail.
Keeping its promise, the company claims to have sent sports goods by Jammu-Tawi Express. It was understood that the university officials would collect the goods from the Alwaye station at Ernakulam district. But unfortunately, it never reached any station in the state.
When the MG University couldn’t lay its hands on the expensive sports goods it wrote to the Railway authorities about the non-delivery of goods.
The RPF responded to the complaint by launching an enquiry. But all its efforts failed to yield positive results. This upset the university officials, who made a last-ditch effort to recover the sports goods by approaching some senior officials of the department, but to no avail.
Interestingly, the RPF in its report said that the luggage was untraceable. However, the authorities claim that during their probe they did stumble on records that show the goods reached Chennai.
Surprisingly, they have now raised their hands and are not willing to cooperate with the university officials. When contacted they told TSI that the goods are missing. University sources say that it may seek compensation. This is not one-off incident in the state. RPF sources say there has been an increase in such cases. Goods destined for Kerala don’t reach its destination. They vanish in the middle, says an official.
A wagon carrying sports goods worth Rs 55 lakh dispatched from Jalandhar railway station in 2007 has failed to reach Kerala. Three years after the incident, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) is clueless. The department has no idea what happened to the goods that were ordered by the Mahatma Gandhi University of Kottayam. The university had cut a deal with a Punjab-based sports company that it would receive sports goods worth Rs 55 lakh through rail.
Keeping its promise, the company claims to have sent sports goods by Jammu-Tawi Express. It was understood that the university officials would collect the goods from the Alwaye station at Ernakulam district. But unfortunately, it never reached any station in the state.
When the MG University couldn’t lay its hands on the expensive sports goods it wrote to the Railway authorities about the non-delivery of goods.
The RPF responded to the complaint by launching an enquiry. But all its efforts failed to yield positive results. This upset the university officials, who made a last-ditch effort to recover the sports goods by approaching some senior officials of the department, but to no avail.
Interestingly, the RPF in its report said that the luggage was untraceable. However, the authorities claim that during their probe they did stumble on records that show the goods reached Chennai.
Surprisingly, they have now raised their hands and are not willing to cooperate with the university officials. When contacted they told TSI that the goods are missing. University sources say that it may seek compensation. This is not one-off incident in the state. RPF sources say there has been an increase in such cases. Goods destined for Kerala don’t reach its destination. They vanish in the middle, says an official.
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