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Migrants to key goods, how railways met lockdown challengeBarely days after the government declared complete lockdown in March suspending operation of air, road and rail travel due to the pandemic,...- National Railway Plan to boost operating ratio: Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav“By 2024, we should see a significant improvement in our operating ratio,” Yadav said in an interview. “We are trying to improve our operat...
- Need 100% security clearance from Punjab govt to resume train services: Railway Board chiefYadav, in a press briefing on Thursday, said the state government had given assurance that the tracks would be cleared by Friday morning. R...
- In a first, India to allow private railways to set their own faresRailway fares are politically sensitive in India, where trains carry as many passengers as Australia’s population every single day, and a c...
- Railways to begin recruitment process for 1.40 lakh posts in three categories from December 15These are, 35,208 posts in non-technical popular categories (NTPC) like guards, office clerks, commercial clerks and others, 1,663 posts fo...
- Railways to operate 80 new trains September 12 onwardsRailway Board Chairman V K Yadav said the Railways will be monitoring all the trains that are currently in operation to determine which tra...
- User charges to be levied at redeveloped stations will be minimal, says Rail Board ChiefThe railways is seeking bids for redevelopment of some of the biggest stations including the New Delhi Railway Station and the Chhatrapati ...
- Railways rules out fare regulator for pvt trains, to allow competition in transport sector"The PTO (private train operators) would be operating in a competitive environment and would need necessary autonomy. Indian transportation...
- Timeline to introduce private trains pushed to March 2024 to complete infra upgradationYadav on July 2 had said that the new set of 151 private trains will be made operational in April 2023. The upgradation of railway network ...
- Private trains to bridge demand-supply gap: Railway Board chairman VK YadavAbout 150 private trains are expected to be operational from April 2023 and procurement will be done strictly under the ‘Make in India’ pol...
- Railways registering 'steady growth' in freight loading, economic activity picking up: Chairman Railway BoardFreight loading in the month of April 2020 stood at 65 million tonnes, around 35% less than the same period last year, while it was 82 mill...
- Sharmik Trains demand falling: Railway Board ChairmanIndian Railways had started to operate the Shramik Special trains from May 1 to transport the stranded migrant workers, students, pilgrims ...
- Indian Railways mulls converting coaches into isolation wardsAccording to sources, the proposal to offer the empty coaches and cabins to be used as isolation wards was discussed in a meeting of Railwa...
- How Indian Railways is working to finish its toughest project yetThe project, which was declared a national project in 2002 with full central funding to speed up the work, missed several deadlines — in 20...
- Budget 2020: More Tejas trains to connect iconic tourist destinations on the cardsFinance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that more Tejas trains are on the cards to connect iconic tourist destinations. Electrificati...
- Fares, freight rates to be rationalised: Railway Board chairmanRailways may increase passenger fares up to 40p/km soon to tide over the financial crisis due to slowdown.
- Merger of services won't hurt officers' seniority: Railway Board chairmanThese remarks came amid fears among officers that the merger of railway services would cost them seniority.
- Railways to upgrade entire signalling system with anti-train collision system: Rail Board chairmanThe railways has identified 10 more high-speed rail corridors besides the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route to give them to private players.
- IRCTC case against Lalu: CBI given time to get sanction to prosecute officialDelight marketing company, now known as Lara Projects, and Sujata Hotels Private Limited have also been named as accused companies in the c...
- Railways to invest Rs 80,000 crore in laying track in next 3 years"Currently, we are laying 7.8 km track per day and it will go up to 13 km per day next year," Railway Board Member (Engineering) VK Gupta s...
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