Category: Railways

L&T Construction on Monday said that its Railways Strategic Business Group has secured a significant order to construct the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Project (Phase 2A) (Contract Package CP205) for MRT Jakarta through L&T’s long-term Japanese partner, Sojitz Corporation. This contract, it added, marks the first EPC Railway Systems Order for L&T in the […]

The Indian Railways on Wednesday got a massive mandate to ensure the ‘smooth and hassle-free movement’ of over 3.4 lakh security personnel, who will be deployed in the upcoming general and state assembly elections. The Election Commission (EC) directed the railway board to ensure seamless train movement with specific instructions to avoid the recurrence of […]

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has given his nod to sign a long-pending Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Delhi government, the Centre, and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on the first three corridors being built under Phase-IV of the metro, an official statement issued on Monday said. The corridors were approved in 2019 and […]

Larsen & Toubro Limited, the concessionaire for the Hyderabad Metro Rail, unduly benefited to the tune of Rs 227.19 crore as per the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Public Sector Undertakings report that was tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday. The state government needs to enforce the concession agreement conditions and contractual […]

The Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) connecting Delhi and Meerut will commence operations by the end of this year, according to a report of the Times of India. The RRTS will cover the stretch from Jangpura in Delhi to Meerut South, with stops at Sari Kale Khan, New Ashok Nagar, Anand Vihar, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Guldhar, […]

The Ministry of Railways has initiated the ‘Amrit Bharat Station scheme’ inspired by the successful redevelopment of Rani Kamlapati Station, Gandhinagar Capital Station, and Sir M. Visveswaraya Terminal Station. This scheme aims to enhance 1318 identified railway stations by improving facilities such as access, waiting areas, toilets, Wi-Fi, and more. Under this scheme, stations will […]

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) provides a payment wallet service called IRCTC eWallet that can be used as one of the payment methods for booking train tickets. The IRCTC eWallet has several features like no payment gateway charges per ticket, online wallet top-up, no dependency on a specific bank’s network, and you can […]

Indian Railways ‘Annual Recruitment Calendar’ has multiple benefits for candidates who want to participate in the job drive of the country’s premier transport organisation, Union Minister for Railway Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Monday. The railways has come up with an annual recruitment calendar like other government agencies so that recruitment examinations can be conducted for […]

The Chennai Metro Rail Limited has become the first metro service in India to integrate with the Open Network for Digital Commerce, an initiative of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry. This initiative allows customers to effortlessly purchase single and return journey tickets for the Chennai […]

The problem of passenger ticket wait list will be over once the three multi-modal economic corridors announced in the interim Budget on Thursday are constructed in another five years, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. In the budget proposals for 2024-25, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the three new major economic railway corridor programmes: energy, mineral […]

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that nearly 40,000 normal bogies will be converted to standard Vande Bharat bogies. While presenting the interim budget, she also announced three major railway corridors including port connectivity corridor, energy, mineral and cement corridor and high traffic density corridor. In order to fund long-term infrastructure projects like freight […]

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her interim budget speech on Thursday said that the recently announced India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) would be a strategic and economic ‘game changer’ for India and reiterated PM Modi’s statement that the corridor would become the basis of world trade for centuries. “The recent India Middle East Europe […]