A vehicle scanning system will be in operation at the Tatanagar parking lot from Monday with the railways touting it as another feather in the cap of the A1 category station.

The under vehicle scanning system (UDSS) will be maintained by railway protection force (RPF) personnel, 10 of whom were trained in its use by a Calcutta-based company at the station parking lot on Sunday morning.

"Three RPF personnel will be posted at the entrance of the car park where a tracker has been embedded by Reyant Private Ltd,” said RPF inspector at Tatanagar M.K. Sahoo.

A distinctive beep from the tracker will alert policemen about the presence of illegal/unauthorised or dangerous items in the vehicle.

The RPF inspector said Tatanagar, under Chakradharpur railway division, was the first station in South Eastern Railway to get UDSS. Over 2,000 cars are parked there every day. The station sees an average footfall of 70,000 a day.

A tracker device installed at the Tatanagar station car park in Jamshedpur. Animesh Sengupta

South Eastern Railway had installed over 250 CCTV cameras across the station in 2014. Subsequently, the railways introduced a luggage scanning system at the entrance of the station in 2019.

A senior railway official pointed that they persuaded the Calcutta-based company to train the RPF personnel as they wanted the new system to start functioning now even though a limited number of trains are running.

"Tatanagar is a relatively small railway station. But several VIPs and their family members visit the station often, either to pick up or see off their near and dear ones. We want the station to be safe for everybody,” he said.