Good news for Railways employees, India's largest employer announces a salary hike for these workersThe Ministry of Railways has announced that the COVID-19 lockdown stay-at-home period will be considered duty for trainee railway employees...
09 Jul, 2025, 08.32 AM IST
Railway unions launch campaign seeking productivity-linked bonus based on 7th Pay CommissionSeveral railway unions have launched a social media campaign demanding productivity-linked bonuses based on the Seventh Pay Commission inst...
03 Oct, 2024, 10.04 PM IST
Railway Board announces 4% hike in DA for employeesThe Railway Board has increased the dearness allowance for its employees from 42% to 46% of the basic pay starting from July 1, 2023. The a...
23 Oct, 2023, 11.34 PM IST
Railway employees union demands productivity-linked bonus on the basis of 7th pay commissionThe Indian Railway Employees Federation (IREF) has requested an increase in the productivity-linked bonus (PLB) for railway workers ahead o...
26 Sep, 2023, 04.17 PM IST
DA arrear update: Will central govt employees get 18-month DA arrear frozen during Covid-19? Govt answersWill the central government employees and pensioners get arrears for the dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) suspended for 18 ...
23 Dec, 2022, 03.35 PM IST
Cabinet approves payment of productivity linked bonus to railway employees for FY 2021-22The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the payment of productivity linked bonus (PLB) to railway employees ...
12 Oct, 2022, 05.17 PM IST
Maharashtra government allows all fully-vaccinated people to board Mumbai local trainsThe government also stated that the people working in essential sectors must be fully vaccinated and should have completed the 14 days post...
26 Oct, 2021, 03.09 PM IST
Highest-ever freight loading of 114.82 metric tonnes done by railways in May: OfficialGupta said that steps included equipping the existing railway hospitals for treatment of Covid patients, installing oxygen plants in hospit...
18 Jun, 2021, 12.47 AM IST
Railways' says all 86 of its COVID hospitals to soon have oxygen plants of their ownA statement from the ministry said that it was planning massive capacity enhancement in 86 railway hospitals across India which have been i...
18 May, 2021, 03.32 PM IST
Nearly 70,000 rail staff vaccinated, 3.2 lakh to receive jabs in next phase, Piyush Goyal tells parliamentThe railways continued operating its freight trains and began running special trains since March last year when the government announced a ...
10 Mar, 2021, 08.38 PM IST
Around 30,000 infected, Railways lost 700 frontline workers to COVID in last 9 monthsMost of the 700 employees who died due to coronavirus were all who were involved in direct interaction with the general public and most sus...
19 Dec, 2020, 06.22 PM IST
Eastern Railway coming up with new facility for serious COVID-19 patients"We are finalising the nitty-gritties for starting the unit, and the number of beds in it will be decided upon the requirement," he said. R...
13 Jul, 2020, 05.26 PM IST
Railways resume suburban train services for essential staffThe Central Railway and Western Railway decided to run "selective suburban services" over main line and harbour line only for essential sta...
15 Jun, 2020, 10.01 AM IST
Indian Railways to continue land monetisation, hold pre-bid meeting via video-conferencingRail Land Development Authority, a statutory authority, under the Ministry of Railways, for development of vacant railway land for commerci...
17 Apr, 2020, 02.42 PM IST
Railways drafts protocol to protect its 13 lakh employees from COVID-19The document – ‘Rail Pariwar Dekh Rekh Muhim' (Drive to take care of the railway family) – lists a series of steps to be followed by zonal ...
09 Apr, 2020, 05.10 PM IST
Coronavirus outbreak: Railway extends its medical services to all central govt employeesAs of now the facilities could be availed by present and retired railway staffers only.
29 Mar, 2020, 04.31 PM IST
Covid-19: Indian Railways to release full salaries of 50k contractual employees till passenger services resumeThe Indian Railways has decided to release full salaries of contractual employees even as all its passenger services remain suspended till ...
24 Mar, 2020, 05.33 PM IST