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  • Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Evaluates Passenger Amenities And Safety Features: Details | Railways News

    Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw carried out an elaborate assessment exercise of various aspects of safety and passenger amenities with top officials at the Rail Bhawan here on Monday.
    Those who attended the meeting were Railway Board Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jaya Varma Sinha and Member Infrastructure Anil Kumar Khandelwal, the director general of the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and the general managers of all railway zones and divisional railway managers from all divisions.

    According to officials who attended the meeting, several important decisions regarding the upkeep of safety equipment in trains, improvement of the food quality, deep cleaning of trains and stations and drinking water facilities were taken in the interest of the passengers.

    “To improve the reliability of the safety-related equipment, it was decided that the specifications, installation practices and maintenance practices of all key safety-related equipment would be reviewed. This would be done in workshops to be organised by the RDSO with all the manufacturers,” a senior railway official said.
    “To improve the food quality, the IRCTC and its agencies are upgrading the base kitchens at 1,000 locations. The work is in progress and it was decided that it should be completed on a war footing in the next six months,” he added.
    Other senior officials said decisions were taken to carry out deep cleaning of the pantry cars and storage areas in a target-oriented manner and also include it in the maintenance schedule so that it can be done on a regular basis.
    “To improve water availability and cleaning of trains during journeys, it was decided that cleaning and watering facilities will be increased. The time required for cleaning and watering will be factored in in the time-tables for this crucial activity,” another official said.

  • Railways ‘does away’ with tenders, opens property for e-auction  

    By way of Categorical Information Provider

    NEW DELHI:  In a primary such transfer, the railway has introduced the economic profits and Non-Fare Earnings (NFR) beneath the ambit of digital public sale thru Indian Railway e-Procurement Machine (IREPS) with impact from June 24. It’s going to finish the tedious technique of tendering railway products and services like like parcel van, commercial rights on station circulating spaces and coaches, the AC retiring room, cloakrooms, parking slots, and so on.

    The transfer will particularly support small marketers and start-ups.  No monetary turnover requirement might be for annual contracts of as much as 40 lakh. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw introduced the digitally-developed device throughout all sections of the railway. He mentioned that round 10,000 property associated with the railway, together with the parking slots can be auctioned digitally with out going thru a long procedure (of issuing tenders) that used to previous take months to be finalised. 

    The incomes property up for public sale might be parcel trucks, pay-and-use bathrooms, commercial rights on station circulating spaces and coaches, air-conditioned ready rooms, cloakrooms, parking so much, plastic bottle crushers, ATMs, and station co-branding, video displays for content material on-demand and so on. Those property might be mapped location-wise at the portal as soon as and the device will bear in mind whether it is coated for incomes or now not.

  • Do not ruin ‘personal assets’, will get to the bottom of grievances: Rail minister on violence by way of task aspirants

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday instructed task aspirants to not ruin public assets and confident them that their grievances could be resolved as applicants of went on a rampage over alleged irregularities in a recruitment examination by way of the general public transporter.

    Previous within the day, the ministry suspended the Non-Technical Standard Classes (RRB NTPC) and the Stage 2 assessments after reviews of vandalism by way of task aspirants from other portions of the rustic got here to mild.

    “I’m telling the aspirants that that is their very own assets. Why are they destroying one thing this is their very own? On the other hand, government will apply due procedure if public assets is broken,” the minister stated at a press convention. His feedback got here after violent protests by way of task aspirants erupted in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Vaishnaw stated the Railways is involved with leader ministers and the problem is being treated “sensitively”.

    “I beg the applicants to position forth their grievances officially. Our goal is to get to the bottom of this factor briefly. A committee has been shaped and it’ll read about representations by way of the applicants,” he stated.

    A passenger teach was once set on fireplace and any other was once pelted with stones in Bihar at the 3rd day of unrest in Bihar.

    “I request scholars to not take the legislation into their palms. We can critically cope with the grievances and issues raised by way of them,” Vaishnaw stated.

    He stated all Railway Recruitment Board chairmen were requested to hear the troubles of applicants, collect them and ship them to the committee.

    “An e-mail cope with has been arrange for this objective. The committee will pass to other portions of the rustic and pay attention to the grievances,” the minister stated.

    A crowd stormed the Gaya Junction, elevating slogans, and set fireplace to the Bhabhua-Patna InterCity Specific, even though no one was once injured. East Central Railway CPRO Rajesh Kumar advised PTI-Bhasha that demonstrations had been additionally witnessed at Taregana, at the outskirts of Patna, and at Jehanabad even though agitators there have been pacified with out a lot bother.

    Applicants are opposing the Railways’ resolution to carry the examination in two phases, claiming the second one level for ultimate variety tantamount to “dishonest” those that gave the impression and cleared the primary level of the RRB-NTPC for computer-based check (CBT) which was once launched on January 15.

    Round 1.25 crore applicants had carried out for the assessments that had marketed over 35,000 posts from degree 2 to degree 6. Protestors squatted on rail tracks at a number of puts on Tuesday, hampering teach motion within the state. A number of trains had been cancelled or ran on alternative ways as a result of the protests.