The platform of Sasaram Railway station, located in Bihar’s Rohtas district, has been functioning as an impromptu study centre for students for almost 20 years now. It all started in 2002-2003 when a few students started coming to the railway station to study. The reason was that the railway station was the only place in […]
Patna: From tonight, Railway Platform tickets have been hiked 400 percent from Rs 10 to rs 50, in an effort to discourage crowding at railway stations. The hike will be ‘temporary’, until the corona-virus situation clears. The East Central Railway Zone headquartered at Hajipur in the state, has hiked price of platform tickets from Rs […]
Voices of the people: how to deal with overcrowding on trains? Please write your comments and add to the debate- Editor In every long distance train reservation ticket holder passengers suffer from entry and forcible occupation of reserved seats at various locations and stages of long journey, by “Daily Passengers” commuting between their homes and […]
Imagine yourself on Platform No. 10 of Patna Railway Station waiting with all your luggage and family to board your train and you feel the urge to urinate, you’ll have to go from Platform 10 to Platform Number 1. Patna Railway Station has 10 platforms but only one has a women’s toilet. And it’s an […]
The nation’s largest transporter, Indian Railways, has decided to put a ban on single-use plastic material on its premises and trains. This ban will be implemented from October 2. The Indian Railways announced a ban on single-use plastic material across its network from the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The railways said the initiative […]
कभी-कभी यात्रियों को अचानक से यात्रा करनी पड़ जाती है और तत्काल बुकिंग ही उस समय मदत करती है। IRCTC की आधिकारिक वेबसाइट के अनुसार, IRCTC तत्काल बुकिंग पहले आओ-पहले पाओ के आधार पर प्रीमियम शुल्क के भुगतान पर उपलब्ध है। तत्काल शुल्क द्वितीय श्रेणी के लिए मूल किराया के 10 प्रतिशत और अन्य सभी […]
एक मई से ग्राहकों को रेलवे, बैंक और सरकारी व निजी कंपनियों की ओर से कई तरह के बदलाव होने जा रहे है। इससे आम लोगो की ज़िंदगी पर पड़ेगा सीधा असर पड़ेगा, राहत से मिलने का अनुमान है। एसबीआई ग्राहकों को राहत संभव देश की सबसे बड़ी बैंक एसबीआई (SBI) अपनी कर्ज दरों को […]
The Guwahati Railway Station became the first ever railway station in Indian Railways to get ISO certification from National Green Tribunal (NGT) for “providing passenger amenities in a clean and green environment.” The CPRO Pranav Jyoti Sharma of North eastern Frontier Railway said that it has become the first station of Indian railways to achieve this feat […]
देश में बनी पहली हाईस्पीड ट्रेन वंदे भारत एक्सप्रेस (टी-18) को समय से चलाने के चक्कर में रोज कई ट्रेनें फंसती हैं। गाजियाबाद से प्रयागराज के बीच अप-डाउन में कम से कम 28-30 ट्रेनों का परिचालन इससे प्रभावित होता है। इनमें 16 मालगाड़ियों के साथ ही 12 मेमू, इंटरसिटी और एक्सप्रेस ट्रेनें हैं। पिछले दिनों मवेशी टकराने, […]
The long pending demand of Bihar government fulfilled, the railway minister Piyush Goyal has handed over the land to the road construction department. The work on removal of the 7 km railway track from the R-Block to Digha will start from September 15. As per the local news Road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav said, ‘The […]
Ahmedabad: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday dubbed the Centre’s much touted bullet train project, an “exercise in vanity”. He said the government’s “priorities are misplaced” as it should have focused on the existing passenger rail network. Addressing a party event for the business community in Gujarat, the Congress leader pointed out that the […]
Railways started a campaign that they are subsidizing my tickets and they are getting only 53% of total cost incurred on my travel. Is it true? What are the calculations? I think all the expenses on account of ticketless travel, concessions given to Journalists, MP/MLAs, Padma Awardees, Shram Awardees, Gallantry awards etc should not be […]
