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  • Indian Railways exports Cape Gauge Diesel Locomotives to Mozambique

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    NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways has exported the 4 tough Cape Gauge Diesel Locomotives, manufactured at Banaras Locomotive Works, to Mozambique now.

    On February 11, the President of Mozambique, within the presence of the President of Zimbabwe, inaugurated the run of 4 Cape Diesel Locomotives at Beira in Mozambique.

    Sharing main points of this feat of Indian Railways (IR), Rajiv Jain-ADG PR of Railway, right here on Saturday mentioned that the Indian Railway is proud to spouse with Mozambique in bettering their financial enlargement.

    “The 3000HP Locomotives are lately being operated more than one gadgets to haul 3561 tonnes of coal from Coal mines to the port of Beira, hauling 43 wagons”, Jain mentioned.

    He added that the Cape Gauge Diesel Locomotives had been designed, manufactured, and financed through India for export within the spirits of Atamnirbhar Bharat.

    Anjali Goyal-the GM of Banaras Locomotives Works mentioned that the BLW is deeply honoured that 4 Banaras Diesel Locomotives had been inaugurated on February 11 collectively through Presidents of Mozambique and Zimbabwe AT Beira in Mozambique.

    “The BLW is absolutely geared as much as leverage its production functions for export of locomotives to sister nations in Africa at aggressive charges. We sit up for extra alternatives to play a key position in India’s Global Financial Cooperation initiative in partnership with the Ministry of Exterior Affairs and the RITES”, she mentioned.

    After Mozambique, the Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) could also be making an attempt to enlarge its export enlargement to Africa additionally in which an in depth cape gauge community is being evolved. The Cape Gauge Diesel Locomotive has been manufactured at BLW with an AC-traction machine and is able to operating at 100kmph.

    Jain mentioned that the Cape Gauge Diesel Locomotives for exports are able to hauling 2255 heaps at 100kmph on the degree observe and most tractive efforts of 400N.

    “Probably the most salient characteristic of this locomotive is availability ensured on-board water-closet rest room, the fridge and sizzling plate machine for the locos. It is usually supplied with a computer-controlled brake machine and bigger gasoline tank of 6000 litres for longer operation”, Jain mentioned.

  • Nation’s largest wrestling academy to be arrange by way of Railways in Delhi

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    NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways will quickly arrange the rustic’s largest world-class academy, completely for wrestlers in railways, with all of the perfect sports activities amenities at Kishanganj locality in Delhi.

    An estimated value of Rs 30.76 crore for its established order has already been sanctioned by way of the railway.

    Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Friday in a written answer within the Rajya Sabha introduced that the proposed nation’s largest wrestling academy will likely be supplied with complicated coaching amenities offering abundant alternatives to many budding wrestlers to change into champions within the occasions to return.

    “The Railways have performed a paramount function in selling wrestling in India and lots of the acclaimed wrestlers are from railways. The lots of the medals received by way of India in wrestling in Olympics had been from Indian Railways like Sushil (2008 and 2012), Sakshi Malik (2016), Ravi Kumar and Bajranj (2020)”, the minister stated.

    Lauding the performances of railways wrestlers in Tokyo Olympics 2020, the railway minister stated that the railway sportspersons had achieved marvelous and out of seven medals received by way of India 3 folks medals had been received by way of the railway sportspersons.

    The minister additionally stated that the Indian Railways has been contributing to the promotion of sports activities via Railway Sports activities Promotion Board within the nation.

    “As of date, greater than 9000 sportspersons are on roll in 29 sport disciplines in Indian Railways. The Railways sportspersons had been honoured with 27 Padamshreee, 176 Arjuna, 12 Dhayanchanad, 14 Dronacharaya and 9 main Dhayanchand Khel Ratna awards for his or her exceptional sports activities achievements”, the minister stated.

  • Nationwide Rail Plan-2030 drawn up, makes a speciality of less expensive and protected delivery

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    NEW DELHI: Protecting in thoughts the rising necessities and traits of railways until 2050, the Centre has ready a holistic Nationwide Rail Plan for India-2030 (NRP). The implementation of the plan will make the railways a ‘long term able’ device by way of 2030. 

    Underneath the plan, the Railways shall be made in a position to assembly the entire necessities of passengers with a world-class benchmark in services and products.

    Sharing this data in a written answer within the Rajya Sabha, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday spelt out the targets of the NRP and stated its fundamental function is to create a holistic construction of Indian Railways. The purpose is to create capability forward of call for, which in flip, would additionally cater to long term expansion in call for proper as much as 2050, the minister stated.

    “The NRP may be geared toward formulating methods in accordance with each operational capacities and business coverage tasks to extend the modal proportion of the Railways in frights to 45%”, Vaishnaw additional stated.

    At the different salient options of the NRP, the minister stated as Indian Railways is the expansion engine of the country, the NRP has additionally been ready to reform the railways to make it extra environment friendly, greener and trendy to verify less expensive, protected, and confident mode of delivery to the average guy — be it in passenger or freight phase.

    The railways would take all efforts to cut back the transit time of freight considerably with a mean pace of freight trains to 50 km/ph, he added.

    “Underneath this plan, the railways would proceed figuring out new Devoted Freight Corridors (DFC), the brand new Prime-Pace Railway Corridors and getting rid of the entire unmanned railway degree crossings”, the railway minister stated.

    Different outstanding targets of NRP can be to check the railway infrastructure deficiencies, long term infrastructure necessities, discover choices, prioritization of tasks, and review of investment necessities and financing methods.

    The Minister additional knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha that the Ministry of Railways has made up our minds to adopt a survey and get ready the Element Mission Document (DPR) of 7 high-speed rail corridors specifically Delhi-Varanasi, Delhi-Amritsar, Delhi-Ahmedabad, Mumbai-Nagapur, Mumbai-Hyderabad, Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru, and Varanasi-Howrah.

    He stated that Mumbai-Ahmedabad Prime-Pace rail is the one sanctioned such mission within the nation being done with the technical and fiscal improve of the federal government of Japan.

  • On-board catering products and services to renew in all Rajdhani categorical trains after a few years

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    NEW DELHI: God information is for the passengers, who used to go back and forth within the premier Rajdhani Specific from side to side the nationwide capital. 

    The railways, nearly after a few years has resumed the onboard catering products and services in all premier Rajdhani categorical, which runs between the nationwide capital and the capital towns of different states on quite a lot of routes, with impact from February 1.

    Recently, there are 24 pairs of premier Rajdhani categorical trains being operated via the Indian Railways among the quickest different trains within the nation. Throughout the pre-Covid time, the price tag fees of the Rajdhani categorical educate used to incorporate catering fees for vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals. After the pandemic broke out within the nation, the onboard catering provider was once withdrawn via the railway in 2020 beneath right kind protection protocols for passengers. 

    Confirming the resumption of onboard catering provider within the Rajdhani categorical trains, Anand Okay Jha, spokesperson of IRCTC, mentioned that the onboard catering provider has been resumed with impact from February 1 in all Rajdhani categorical trains together with the New Delhi-Rajendranagar Tejas Rajdhani. “Now, the fee for availing foods-opting both for vegetarian or non-vegetarian is incorporated within the fare of a Rajdhani categorical educate price tag,” Jha mentioned.

    “We have now resumed the onboard catering within the Rajdhani categorical educate however the bed-roll provider continues to be into consideration of the railway board whether or not to renew it or now not amid the persisting pandemic state of affairs,” a senior railway supply mentioned.

    Assets mentioned that the railway minister is anticipated to take a last resolution at the re-start of bed-roll products and services within the Rajdhani categorical educate.

  • President lauded executive in modernising railways, in his cope with to Homes of Parliament

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    NEW DELHI: “My executive is modernising the Indian Railways at a quick tempo. Within the ultimate 7 years, 24,000 km of railway routes had been electrified,” President Ram Nath Kovind mentioned whilst addressing the joint sittings of each the Homes of Parliament in the beginning of the price range classes on Monday.

    Expressing the dedication of the federal government for creating railway infrastructure, the President mentioned the New Vande Bharat trains and the brand new vista dome coaches have added new feathers to the Indian railways.  He additionally knowledgeable each the Homes that the works of recent rail tracks and double-railway tracks are being performed impulsively.

    He, mentioning the re-developed Rani Kamalapati in Madhya Pradesh and the Gandhinagar Railway stations in Gujarat as world-class railway stations, lauded the railways for offering the brand new glimpses of contemporary India via those stations.

    He additionally termed the arch rail bridge, being built around the river Chenab in Kashmir, in his cope with to each the Homes of the Parliament as a centre of enchantment. “This is a subject of delight for the rustic that the capitals of North-East’s all states are coming at the railway map with the efforts of my executive,” he mentioned, including that the rail and air connectivity has now not a dream for the folk of north-east states, specifically Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.

    But even so this, touching upon the federal government’s works on public delivery, the President mentioned that 11 new metro routes had been mentioned for reaping rewards the folk in 8 states each day.

    “India is now additionally a number of the 4 nations on the planet having biggest driverless educate networks,” he claimed and extra added that an Indigenous Automated Educate Gadget (IATS) has additionally been evolved within the nation symbolising the rising capacity of ‘Make in India’.

    In his cope with to the joint sittings of individuals of each the Homes, the President additional cited that the railway ran greater than 1900 Kissan rails all the way through the Covid sessions on 150 routes for transporting about 6 lakh MT of agriculture merchandise.

    In the meantime, the Indian railway claimed on Monday that 3 zones out of 16, have completed the objectives of overall electrification. “In a significant jump against 100 according to cent electrification, 3 zones of Indian Railways specifically West Central Railway, the Kolkata Metro and the East Coast Railway had been absolutely electrified lowering carbon footprints,” the ministry of Railway claimed.

  • Railway built-in all 695 hospitals & well being centres with Ayushman Bharat Virtual Venture

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    NEW DELHI: In a vital success to enhance the well being care amenities, the railways has built-in its all of the 695 hospitals and well being centres with the ‘Aayushman Bharat Virtual Venture’ (ABDM) on a challenge mode.

    The combination of all hospitals and well being centres has been performed via combining the Health facility Control Knowledge Machine (HMIS) the RailTel Company of India- one of the most PSUs of the Ministry of Railways, in collaboration with the Nationwide Well being Authority.

    Upon a success integration of railway’s all of the 695 hospitals and well being centres with the ABDM, the RailTel claimed that the mixing of well being wings of Indian railways won’t best receive advantages round 80 lakhs railway workers, pensioners and their members of the family but in addition allow most of the people to avail of the advantages of well being care amenities to be had on the railway hospitals and the well being centres in a unbroken virtual approach.

    Previous to this integration, the RailTel Company of India had applied a Internet-based multi-module HMIS in all of the 695 hospitals and well being centres of Railway around the nation.

    Now, each those two methods – ABDM and the HMIS have effectively built-in for the advantage of sufferers and well being administrations. Underneath the HMIS gadget, a cellular app- HMIS Affected person Cell AAP has additionally been created for simple and speedy data get entry to to sufferers associated with their OPD registrations, medical doctors’ prescriptions, lab studies and others.

    Puneet Chawala-the CMD of RailTel, thru a observation, stated, “RailTel is dedicated to taking part in a significant function within the virtual transformational actions going down within the nation. The combination of all hospitals and well being centres of railways with the ABDM will progressively be certain the achieve of fine well being amenities to each and every citizen of this nation.”

  • ‘Indian Rly wishes prime stage of capital expenditure to beocme an engine of expansion through 2030’

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    NEW DELHI: Because the Financial Survey 2021-22 got here out with main points on Monday, the Indian Railway sector will emerge to get an overly prime stage of capital expenditure for changing into the engine of nationwide expansion within the subsequent 10 years.

    With a excellent collection of mega initiatives within the pipeline, the railways will haven’t any wrong way however to look an overly prime stage of capital expenditures to boost up its capability expansion through 2030.

    The capital expenditure (Capex) has larger from Rs 45,980 crore according to annum in 2014 to Rs 2.15 lakh crore – round 5 instances the Capex of 2014.

    Because the Financial Survey additional places it, “As extra initiatives are taken available and a number of other assets of capital discovering are advanced, the Capex will building up additional within the coming years and the railway device will if truth be told emerge as an engine of nationwide expansion.”

    Touching upon the Nationwide Rail Plan, the Financial Survey has laid down the street map for capability enlargement of the railway networks additionally through 2030 to cater the expansion as much as 2050.

    “It envisages the introduction of a future-ready railway device that is in a position to no longer most effective meet the passengers’ call for but additionally building up the modal proportion of railways freight to 40-45 according to cent from the prevailing stage of 26-27 according to cent,” the survey identified.

    Because the survey has categorically said the Indian Railway has known 58 initiatives as Tremendous Essential, centered to be finished through December 2022 whilst 68 initiatives had been known as Essential and feature been centered to be finished through March 2024. Those initiatives are considering expanding capability on routes that serve primary mineral, business hubs at the side of the ports and primary intake centres beneath the Nationwide Rail Plan, the survey mentioned.

    The survey additionally identified that the freight ecosystem beneath the Nationwide Rail Plan is predicted to develop from the present stage of 26.27 according to cent to 8200MT through 2030. At this time, the railway capability is just ready to hold 1220MT which is round 26.27 according to cent of the modal proportion.

  • Indian Railways rename educate guards as ‘educate managers’; salaries, tasks stay unchanged

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    NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways after extended attention has determined to redesignate the submit of the educate “guard” as “educate supervisor” with quick impact.

    In a brand new round issued to the overall managers (GMs) of all zones, the Railway Board on Thursday, January 13, 2022, knowledgeable the zones to redesignate the “guard” as “educate supervisor”.

    The assistant guard would now be referred to as as assistant educate supervisor whilst the products educate guard can be referred to as the “items educate supervisor’.

    In the similar manner, Railways has additionally redesignated the senior passenger guard as senior passenger educate supervisor whilst the posts of mail and categorical educate guard had been redesignated as “mail or categorical educate supervisor”.

    “The revised designation won’t entail any trade within the pay scales, strategies of recruitment, present tasks and duties, seniority and avenues of promotion”, Railways officers have categorically clarified.

    Legitimate resources mentioned that the revised designation will give a boost to the incentive degree of guards now as educate managers.

  • Chandauli / Hajipur: 11 trains canceled because of non-interlocking paintings at Patliputra and Paheljaghat stations, adjustments in routes of many trains… see complete record

    Pre-NI and NI paintings is to be completed from eleventh January to sixteenth January for Chandauli Patliputra and Paheljaghat stations. For this, many trains passing via this direction were canceled and the routes and stoppages of many trains were modified. The canceled trains 03295 Barauni – Patliputra Passenger Particular will stay canceled from January 11 to January 16. 03291 Patliputra – Patna Passenger Particular will stay canceled from January 11 to January 16. 03380 Patna-Barauni Passenger Particular will stay canceled from January 10 to January 15. 05253 Muzaffarpur – Patliputra Passenger Particular will stay canceled from January 11 to January 16. 05254 Patliputra – Muzaffarpur Passenger Particular will stay canceled from January 11 to January 16. 05266 Patliputra-Darbhanga Passenger Particular will stay canceled from January 11 to January 16. 05265 Darbhanga-Patliputra Passenger Particular will stay canceled from January 12 to January 17. 15549 Jaynagar – Patna Intercity Specific will stay canceled from January 11 to January 14. 15550 Patna-Jayanagar Intercity Specific will stay canceled from January 11 to January 14. 13205 Saharsa – Patliputra Janhit Specific will stay canceled from January 11 to January 15. 13206 Patliputra – Saharsa Janhit Specific will stay canceled from January 12 to January 16. Those trains were rescheduled. 15515 Raxaul-Danapur Specific operating from Raxaul from eleventh January to 14th January will depart Raxaul at 08.00 hrs as an alternative of 06.00 hrs. 00108 Muzaffarpur – Manmad parcel particular leaving Muzaffarpur on thirteenth January will depart Muzaffarpur at 12.00 hrs as an alternative of its scheduled time. 00110 Muzaffarpur – Sangola parcel particular leaving Muzaffarpur on eleventh, 14th & sixteenth January will depart Muzaffarpur at 12.00 hrs as an alternative of its scheduled time of 10.00 hrs. Their direction might be modified. On January 13, 01665 Rani Kamalapati-Agartala Specific operating from Rani Kamlapati will run by the use of diversion direction Patna-Dinkargram Simaria as an alternative of Patliputra-Hajipur-Barauni. On January 12, 15548 Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Raxaul Specific leaving Lokmanya Tilak Terminus will run by the use of diversion direction Patna-Dinkargram Simaria as an alternative of Patliputra-Hajipur-Barauni. On thirteenth January, 12520 Kamakhya-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Specific leaving Kamakhya will run by the use of diversion direction as an alternative of Barauni-Shahpur Patori-Hajipur-Patliputra by the use of Dinkargram Simaria-Patna. Path 01665, 15548 and 12520 will prevent at Patna Junction as an alternative of Patliputra all the way through the diversion length. Those might be common 19483 Ahmedabad-Barauni Specific operating from Ahmedabad on tenth January will run between Ara and Danapur station with 10 mins stoppage. 19483 Ahmedabad-Barauni Specific operating from Ahmedabad from January 11 to January 13 will run between Buxar and Danapur station with a prevent of 70 mins. 22450 New Delhi-Guwahati Specific leaving New Delhi on twelfth January will run between Ara and Danapur stations with a stoppage of 35 mins. 14038 New Delhi-Silchar Specific leaving New Delhi on thirteenth January will run between Ara and Danapur stations with a stoppage of 35 mins. 15549 Jaynagar-Patna Specific leaving Jaynagar on sixteenth January might be diverted between Muzaffarpur-Paheljaghat station with a stoppage of 60 mins. 15515 Raxaul-Danapur Specific leaving Raxaul on fifteenth January and sixteenth January might be diverted between Hajipur-Paheljaghat station with a stoppage of 40 mins. Those trains will run from right here. 12141 Lokmanya Tilak Terminal-Patliputra Specific operating from Lokmanya Tilak Terminal from 09 January to fourteen January can have incomplete stoppage at Danapur. 12142 Patliputra – Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Specific operating from Patliputra from eleventh January to sixteenth January will run from Danapur to Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in lieu of Patliputra. 15080 Gorakhpur-Patliputra Specific operating from Gorakhpur from January 12 to January 16 can have incomplete stoppage at Chhapra. 15079 Patliputra-Gorakhpur Specific operating from Patliputra from twelfth January to sixteenth January will run from Chhapra to Gorakhpur in lieu of Patliputra. 15202 Narkatiaganj-Patliputra Intercity Specific operating from Narkatiaganj from January 11 to January 16 can have incomplete halt at Hajipur. 15201 Patliputra – Narkatiaganj Intercity Specific operating from Patliputra from 11 January to 16 January will run from Hajipur to Narkatiaganj in lieu of Patlitra. On January 10, 22352 Yesvantpur-Patliputra Specific operating from Yesvantpur can have incomplete stoppage at Danapur. 22355 Patliputra-Chandigarh Specific operating from Patliputra until January 12 and January 16 will run from Danapur to Chandigarh as an alternative of Patliputra. 22356 Chandigarh-Patliputra Specific operating from Chandigarh on January 10 and January 13 can have incomplete stoppage at Danapur. On January 14, 22351 Patliputra – Yesvantpur Specific departing from Patliputra will run from Danapur to Yesvantpur in lieu of Patliputra. ,

  • In pandemic-hit 2020-21, railways earned over Rs 500 crore from Tatkal, top class Tatkal tickets

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    NEW DELHI: The Railways earned Rs 403 crore from tatkal price tag fees, an extra Rs 119 crore from top class tatkal tickets, and Rs 511 crore from dynamic fares all through 2020-21, at the same time as a lot of its operations remained suspended via many of the yr because of the Covid pandemic, published an RTI answer.

    Passengers in those 3 classes are normally final minute travellers who avail those services and products most commonly for emergency trip through paying top class fees.

    In a respond to a RTI filed through Madhya Pradesh-based Chandra Shekhar Gaur, the Railways stated that it earned Rs 240 crore from dynamic fares, Rs 353 crore from tatkal tickets and Rs 89 crore from top class tatkal fees within the monetary yr 2021-22 until September.

    Within the 2019-20 monetary yr, when there have been no restrictions in educate operations, the nationwide transporter earned Rs 1,313 crore from dynamic fares, Rs 1,669 from tatkal tickets and Rs 603 crore from top class tatkal tickets.

    The knowledge from the railway ministry comes a month after a Parliamentary Status Committee on Railways remarked that the costs levied on tatkal tickets are “a bit unjustifiable” and put an enormous burden in particular on the ones passengers who’re financially vulnerable and are compelled to trip in urgency to satisfy their kith and family or so for an excessively brief distance additionally.

    The committee desired that the ministry devise measures for a professional rata fare for distance travelled.

    Tatkal price tag fees had been fastened as a proportion of fare on the charge of 10 in keeping with cent of fundamental fare for 2d elegance and 30 in keeping with cent of fundamental fare for all different categories matter to minimal and most.

    Beneath the top class model, which used to be presented in 2014 in make a selection trains, 50 in keeping with cent of tatkal quota tickets are bought the usage of the dynamic fare device.

    The committee additionally stated that flexi or dynamic pricing looked to be “quite discriminatory” given the information that fares of Rajdhanis, Shatabdis and Durontos are already upper as in comparison to different mail and categorical trains and are virtually at par and at some cases upper than the ones of funds airways.

    Information additionally displays that over 52 lakh individuals who have been on wait listing after finalisation of seat reservation charts may just now not trip through trains within the first six months of the present fiscal.

    Round 32,50,039 PNRs (passenger identify information), towards which 52,96,741 passengers had bookings, have been auto-cancelled as they have been in wait standing after preparation of the charts until September of this monetary yr.

    “The issue is that we wouldn’t have sufficient trains to satisfy the call for of most of the people. The ones that may come up with the money for the top class fares, spend cash to get tatkal tickets. Some trains are out of achieve for some who can not pay the dynamic fares. Despite the fact that we e-book prematurely, the tickets are wait indexed in maximum trains,” stated Sujeet Rai, who travels to look his oldsters in Bihar yearly.

    “What I do is e-book tickets prematurely and when they’re wait indexed until the very finish, I attempt to get tatkal tickets and cancel the up to now booked price tag. Despite the fact that its now not an emergency and you’ve got made plans together with your circle of relatives, you may have to take a look at to get showed tickets,” he stated.

    Whilst the Railways didn’t release any new trains all through Covid-hit 2020-21, it introduced in as many as 144 new educate services and products in 2019-20, 266 services and products in 2018-2019, 170 services and products in 2017-2018 and 223 services and products in 2016-2017.