Railways plans to modernise 1,000 small stations under Amrit Bharat Station SchemeThe aim is to identify developing cities with potential and envisage railway stations as city centres that would link not just various part...
Railways increases platform ticket prices, cancels trains to prevent Covid-19 from spreadingThe central and western railways increased the price of platform tickets to Rs 50 from Rs 10 at a number of stations with effect from Tuesd...
Railway board goes back on decentralisationThe earlier order of delegation of powers to DRMs was issued to end the archaic departmentalisation that prevailed at the national transpor...
Railways' recent move to decentralise authority is helping it move much fasterThe latest change is not without its critics, however. Some argue that it has amounted to diluting checks and balances and might spawn corr...
Railways 'pay and use' toilets to get cheaperOfficials said the move follows observations revealing very few used the toilets installed at small railway stations; open defecation was p...
Piyush Goyal to trim rail board to make transporter efficientThe process of identifying posts that can be reduced in the board and the powers that can be delegated to the field level is already on.
Worried by accidents, railway panel bats for more power to DRMsA DRM heads the organisation at the division level and is primarily involved with the running of trains, customer interface and maintenance...
Now, an outside expert in railway boardOver the years, inter-services rivalry has often resulted in blocking of key projects, impacting the government's efforts to upgrade rail i...
Railways to highlight two-year achievements of Modi govtAll stations on that day would be inspected by an officer, including GMs and DRMs who will be supervising the cleanliness drive with the he...
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu greenlights Italy training trip for 30 DRMsThe first batch of 30 DRMs will go to SDA Bocooni in Milan for two-week training from September 7 in high speed train service.
Railways: DRMs, GMs on Twitter, Facebook to connect with passengersLooking to reach out to passengers via social media, the railways has acquired a handsome following of 4.51 lakh on twitter and more than 3...
581 unmanned level crossings in South Central Railway to be eliminated by 2017P K Srivastava directed the Divisional Railway Managers to closely monitor the progress of work on elimination of the unmanned railway leve...
Over 2.25 lakh posts including some key posts lying vacant in railwaysDespite introducing new trains every year,smooth operation at railways hindered as some key post lay vacant in largest carrier of country.
High-speed trains: Railways seeks report from DRMs within 2 weeksThe proposed routes also included the Delhi-Agra section and the first trial run on the section has already been concluded.
- Appointments of GMs, DRMs in Railways by next week
After several months of delay, appointments of general managers and divisional railway managers posts in Railways will be made by next week.
- Kakodkar panel suggests exhaustive rejig in Indian Railways
Finding fault with the existing set-up, a high-level rail safety panel has suggested an exhaustive rejig of the railway organisation and di...
- Rlys asked to check illegal mining of iron ore in J’khand
Following the footsteps of Karnataka and Orissa, Jharkhand has now decided to crack down on illegal mining of iron ore.