This collage handout photo from NFR shows water-quality checks being conducted at Kamakhya railway station on September 21. (Photo Courtesy: CPRO NFR)
Maligaon, September 22 (MExN): Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) conducted water-quality checks at Guwahati and Kamakhya railway stations on September 21 as part of its ongoing monitoring of drinking water facilities across railway stations and premises.
According to NFR, water samples were collected from passenger-use points and subjected to physical, chemical and bacteriological examinations to assess compliance with prescribed safety standards.
At Guwahati station, a sample from the waiting hall was tested for pH, turbidity, total hardness, nitrate, iron, residual free chlorine, chloride, alkalinity, fluoride and calcium. The sample conformed to the limits specified in the report, it stated.
At Kamakhya station, two filtered-water samples were tested—one from Platform No. 1, Vat No. 3, and another from Platforms No. 2 and 3, Vat No. 2.
As per an NFR release, the available physicochemical results were within the limits specified in the respective reports.
Bacteriological examination was also undertaken to detect microbial contamination.
The NFR further informed that it was undertaking regular cleaning of water storage tanks and maintenance of water coolers, pipelines, taps and other water-supply installations, with corrective action taken wherever deficiencies were detected.
Regular water sampling, laboratory examination and residual-chlorine monitoring were being undertaken as part of its preventive approach to drinking-water safety across NFR network, it added.
