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NFIR seeks better amenities for porters

Edit The Hindu 04 May 2016
Licensed porters should be entitled to privilege passes, their porterage charges should be increased and their services should be utilised on rotation basis for loading and unloading at the railway parcel offices, said general secretary of National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR) M ... Raghavaiah expressed concern at the dismal working conditions of railway porters....

Central Railways sanctions Rs 125 cr for Pune-Satara line

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
The Central Railway has sanctioned Rs 125 crore for carrying out doubling of the Pune-Satara stretch. The works is a part of the Rs 4,600-crore project of the Union railway ministry that has proposed doubling of the Pune-Miraj-Londha rail line ... The change will also enable the railways to run superfast express trains between Kolhapur and Pune ... The railways has already earmarked its proposed expansion....

RPF association gets stay on DG's appointment

Edit DNA India 04 May 2016
On Monday, a bench of justice Gita Mittal and justice OS Mehta, hearing a petition filed by the All-India Railway Protection Force Association (AIRPFA), ordered the Union government to file a reply to the points raised by the petitioner within a week. The job of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) might be to protect passengers of the Indian Railways and the assets of the national transporter....

Overbridge confusion cleared

Edit The Hindu 04 May 2016
The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation and South Western Railways have reached ... “We have reached an agreement with the Railways’ authorities....

Rail links to Tripura, Mizoram suffer as rains trigger massive landslides in Assam district

Edit Indian Express 04 May 2016
The rains have also played havoc with the four-lane East-West Corridor that traverses through Dima Hasao district almost parallel to the railway track ... Just outside the Phiding railway station for instance, landslips have completely taken away about 100 metres of the main railway line apart from bringing down about 200 metres of a retention wall....

Pre-application meeting held for Surat transportation hub

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
The joint venture of Indian Railway Station Development Corporation (IRSDC), Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) and Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) has set the ball rolling for the development of multi-modal transportation hub (MMTH) at Surat railway station here. A pre-application conference was held at Western Railway (WR) ......

Western Railway and Gujarat join hands to make ultra-modern Surat station

Edit DNA India 04 May 2016
The project will be a joint venture of the Indian Railway Station Development Corporation (IRSDC), Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) and Surat Municipal Corporation, said WR officials....

My voice guides commuters clueless about their trains

Edit Indian Express 04 May 2016
Sitting in the confined space of the ‘announcement room’ of Mumbai Central railway station, Neeta Manohar Tondwalkar provides a service to millions of Mumbaiites every day, but they almost don’t notice it ... “Be it a signal failure, a welcome to passengers or any other railway announcement, I need to do it all ... Securing a job in railways was always her dream, she says....

Bihar's tipplers take train to UP for 40-min happy hour

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
Within minutes of the arrival of the 55017 Chhapra-Mau passenger train at 6pm at Suraimanpur railway station, the only country liquor shop nearby is spillling over with customers ... Railway officials said such numbers were usually seen during summer vacations in May and June....

Bangladesh approves China-financed rail project

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
Bangladesh's highest economic policy-making body on Tuesday approved a multi billion-dollar China-financed project to develop a direct railway connectivity between the capital Dhaka and the southwestern parts of the country....

Cops yet to trace baby kidnapped from rly stn

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
The government railway police (GRP), Nagpur, conducted searches at different places in Chandrapur district on Tuesday in a bid to zero in on the family that had walked away with one-and-a-half-year-old Jaya Meghwal on Monday. Jaya was kidnapped from Nagpur railway station by the family that had befriended the baby's mother Rameshwari while travelling in Bikaner-Bilaspur express....

Lumding-Silchar restoration stalled

Edit The Times of India 04 May 2016
Restoration work of the damaged 100-metre tracks on the Lumding-Silchar railway route at Phiding yard, 82 km from Lumding station, has slowed down because of inclement weather, said a Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) senior engineer and added it will take time for regular train services to resume on the stretch ... Railway officials are, however, ......

Priority to rail passenger amenities

Edit The Hindu 04 May 2016
Bhutani visited the Ernakulam Junction railway station on Tuesday afer assuming charge as DRM....
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