Lucknow: Bolstering the Yogi government’s efforts to improve connectivity in UP, this time the central government has allocated 16 times more money in the Rail Budget to Uttar Pradesh, compared to what the state received between 2009 and 2014, said a government spokesperson on Tuesday. The Union government has granted Uttar Pradesh a rail budget […]
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Pune-Nashik high-speed railway project to be executed on broad gauge
The Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (MRIDCL) will be executing the Pune-Nashik high-speed railway project on broad gauge. The project got in-principle approval from the union railway ministry on Sunday. “We have got in-principle approval for the Pune-Nashik high-speed railway project after the meeting held with the union railway ministry on Sunday. The railway […]
GMRT researchers raise concerns over Pune-Nashik high-speed rail project; MahaRail assures resolution
While the union railway ministry has given ‘in-principle’ approval to the Pune-Nashik high-speed railway project earlier this week, scientists at the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) located near Narayangaon, Pune, are concerned that the project may create problems for the facility. Whereas the Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation (MRIDC) or MahaRail has sought to allay […]
Railway to upgrade ticketing capacity from 25K to 2.25 lakh per minute: Minister
The Indian Railways will be able to upgrade its ticket issuing capacity from 25,000 tickets per minute to 2.25 lakh tickets per minute, starting September 2023, railway minister Ashwani Vaishnaw said on Friday. The minister also said that the Railways’ capacity for attending enquiries will also be upgraded from 4 lakh per minute to 40 […]
49 trains passing through Bihar cancelled from Feb 4-11 for maintenance works
As many as 49 trains, which operate from Howrah and pass through Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu, Punjab and New Delhi, have been cancelled from February 4 till February 11 for maintenance work and the demolition of an old rail overbridge at Burdwan station in West Bengal, railway officials said. According to East […]
UPSC CSE for recruitment to Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) in 2023
The proposed recruitment exam for Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) will not be held this year, the Ministry of Railways announced on Thursday. Instead, the Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will be used to select candidates, it added. “Ministry of Railways in consultation with UPSC and DoPT has decided that […]
Railways made 73% increase in earning from passenger section: Ministry
Indian Railways has made a 73% increase in total earnings from its passenger segment from April 2022 to January 2023. It made around ₹54,733 crore during this period, a significant jump from ₹31,634 crore during the same period last year. According to Union railways ministry, around 6,590 lakh passengers booked tickets in the reserved section […]
Over 18 cattle run-overs take place daily in North Central Railway area on average: Data
PRAYAGRAJ Incidents of cattle run-overs continue to rise despite wide-ranging efforts from railway officials. Records show that in the North Central Railway (NCR) area itself, over 18 incidents of cattle run-overs take place every day on average. Between 2019 and 2022, a total of 27,405 incidents took place in the division, affecting the movement of […]
Budget 2023: FM Sitharaman’s big push for Railways with ₹ 2.4 lakh crore outlay
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the biggest-ever push for Indian Railways with a capital outlay of ₹2.40 lakh crore. Compared to the last fiscal year, it is a rise of 65.6 per cent and nine times higher than the railway allocation in 2013-14. “The Indian Railways capital outlay has been set at 2.40 lakh […]
Vande Bharat train from Mumbai to Solapur via Pune likely to start from Feb 10
If all goes as per plan, the Mumbai to Solapur via Pune ‘Vande Bharat’ Express train will be flagged-off from Mumbai by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 10. The new express train will depart from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) station in Mumbai and travel to Solapur via Pune and Shirdi. While it will […]
Respond in two weeks on pillar collapse: HC tells govt, Metro Rail
Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court on Tuesday asked the state government and the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) to respond within two weeks to a public interest litigation (PIL) taken up by the court on its own over the collapse of a Metro pillar which killed a woman and her two-year-old son. The high […]
Bengaluru to get another Vande Bharat Express train
Karnataka is set to get another Vande Bharat train, this time on the Kacheguda – Bengaluru route, along with two more trains being assigned to serve in South India, which are from Secunderabad in Telangana to Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and Pune in Maharashtra, news agency PTI reported. Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are all […]