Indian rail News
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw shared the zone-wise data on the revenue from ticket sales in answer to a question in the Lok Sabha.
In other words, passengers booking their train tickets on the IRCTC portal are now automatically provided insurance cover for Rs 10 lakh, a senior insurance industry official told IANS preferring anonymity.
Manipur will be connected in March 2022.
Mizoram will be connected in March 2023.
Nagaland will be connected in March 2023.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that this will be the sixth straight year in which the Railways staff will get a bonus.
The railways, in another first, is set to come up with an elliptical 40-km track between Jaipur and Phulera at an investment of around Rs 4 billion to conduct trials of its semi-high speed and high speed trains.
The first station will be inaugurated in January 2019.
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Special train between Beas-Saharanpur to facilitate pilgrims' movement during religious congregation
The Saharanpur-Beas unreserved special train will depart from Saharanpur on November 11 at 8.50 PM to arrive at Beas at 3 AM the next day, according to Northern Railway.
It would be compulsory to furnish Aadhar Card details for both reserved and unreserved ticket booking for both online as well as counter tickets reservation.
Passengers can now look forward to enjoying home cooked local food supplied by self-help groups during their train journey.
Senior citizens will now have about 90 reserved berths for them in a train as the Railways has enhanced the reservation quota by 50 percent for the elders.
Agreement on India's first bullet train project with Japan was the major achievement for Indian Railways.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Monday called for "relook" and "changes" in the Indian Railways for its smooth run in the future.
Now railway passengers can book meals through SMS to 139 as the service will be launched from tomorrow on a few selected trains on trial basis.
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