FASTag slashes average waiting time by 93% to 47 seconds: India to World BankAt a meeting with World Bank officials this week, the government said it plans to add 30,000 km of additional railway tracks by FY31, incre...
09 Dec, 2023, 12.27 AM IST
Targeted action plan shared by departments to improve India's logistics efficiency, global rankingA meeting to showcase ongoing and upcoming initiatives and reforms to improve India's logistics efficiency to the World Bank team was held ...
07 Dec, 2023, 02.35 PM IST
Steel, civil aviation among 11 ministries discuss ways to improve India’s logistics performance index rankingThe dedicated cell meets every fortnight to assess the measures taken and outcomes achieved in improving performance across six parameters ...
18 Nov, 2023, 07.47 PM IST
Infra projects expected to route through PM GatiShakti's NPG after Apr 1: DPIIT SecyThe implementation framework for PM GatiShakti national master plan is taking its final shape at a faster pace and after April 1 this year,...
06 Feb, 2022, 12.17 PM IST
Union Budget 2022: Sowing seeds of chemical-free farmingGoing green payment of Rs 2.37 L cr for procurement of wheat and paddy under MSP; Kisan Drones and Nabard fund for rural startups on cards.
02 Feb, 2022, 03.45 AM IST
Budget 2022: Govt’s digital push to drive big business for startups and tech firmsExperts pointed out that the government's digital push would in turn lead to more IT and technology projects being awarded, benefiting Indi...
01 Feb, 2022, 11.56 PM IST
Budget 2022 to give further boost to warehousing and logistic sectorThe sector is expected to further gain with a favorable regulatory environment, along with the government’s support through policy and refo...
01 Feb, 2022, 03.42 PM IST
Railways to have contactless ticketing; tickets to be QR code-enabledRailway Board Chairman VK Yadav said while 85 per cent train tickets are currently being booked online, a QR code will also be available fo...
23 Jul, 2020, 10.27 PM IST
Rising diesel prices may increase the model share of rail segment: Concor CMD‘I am sure we will be able to maintain margins at 32-33% on operating levels’
29 Jun, 2020, 06.38 PM IST
Government panel on e-governance services for rural India to submit report in a monthThe panel has deliberated on enabling registration for all central and state government jobs, digitisation of government records etc throug...
16 Dec, 2018, 12.53 PM IST
More than 8000 acres of vacant rail land to grow farm productsThe vacant railway land is given on license to railway employees working in Group 'C' and 'D' category under Grow More Food (GMF) scheme, s...
22 Dec, 2016, 06.38 PM IST
Railways digitising vacant rail land records to monetiseAiming at commercial exploitation of surplus land, railways has undertaken digitisation of records related to vacant plots owned by it acro...
28 Mar, 2016, 09.17 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi wants integration of all land records with AadhaarPrime Minister Narendra Modi has asked for integration of all land records with Aadhaar at the earliest, emphasising at his monthly PRAGATI...
24 Mar, 2016, 10.09 AM IST
CAG raps railways over lack of land management cellsRailways owned 4.59 lakh hectares of land up to March 2014, out of which, 0.46 lakh hectares were vacant and 930.75 hectares under encroach...
20 Dec, 2015, 04.48 PM IST
Railway Budget 2015: Mapping of land records to be digitised to counter encroachmentPrabhu said digitized mapping of land records has been initiated and responsibility will be fixed on officials for any encroachments.
26 Feb, 2015, 02.23 PM IST
Rail Budget 2015: Railways eyes RFID tags for wagons, coaches and locomotivesRail Budget 2015-16 is expected to propose extensive use of IT systems in everything from the management of rolling stock to the developmen...
15 Feb, 2015, 10.55 AM IST
Railways go hi-tech: Massive computerisation announced in Rail Budget 2014"Indian Railways is also going for a computer assistant enterprise resource planning solution so that synergies are brought in," Gowda said.
08 Jul, 2014, 01.38 PM IST