Rail Budget 2014: Pilot project for 'Office on wheels' for business travelers proposed

NEW DELHI: Focusing on providing better facilities to business travelers, Railway Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that Indian Railways proposes to provide workstations in select trains on payment basis. Presenting the Railway Budget 2014-15 in Parliament he said, a pilot project will be launched by this year.

Indian Railways is also going for a computer assisted Enterprise Resource Planning Solution, so that synergy is brought in. To begin with, following initiatives will be taken up:

1) Moving towards paperless offices in Indian Railways in 5 years;

2) Next Generation Ticket Reservation System;

3) Wi-fi Services in all A1 and A category stations and in select trains;

4) Real-time tracking of trains and rolling stock;

5) Mobile based Wakeup Call System for passengers;

6) Mobile based Destination Arrival Alert;

7) Station Navigation Information System;

8) Extension of Dual Display Fare Repeaters at all the Ticket Counters through PPP;

9) Digital reservation charts at Stations (Bengaluru model);

10) Extension of Computerized Parcel Management System;

11) Extension of logistics support to various e-commerce Companies by providing designated pick-up centres at identified Stations;

12) Providing education to children of Railway staff at remote locations through Railtel OFC (optical fibre cable) network.