NEW DELHI: The Railways today rolled out a cashless health care scheme for its retired employees. The Cashless Treatment Scheme in Emergency (CTSE) aims to provide comprehensive health care facilities to its beneficiaries through in-house health institutions, supplementing with referrals to recognised hospitals whenever necessary. “Cashless Treatment Scheme in Emergency ...
Read More »Railways announces new scheme: Buy tickets now and pay later for any express train
New Delhi: Railways have decided to provide the ‘buy tickets now and pay later’ service for any express train, an IRCTC official said on Thursday. According to the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd official, soon passengers would be able to buy tickets from the IRCTC website and ...
Read More »Railway Ministry unveils Mission 41K to save energy worth Rs 41,000 crore
Union Railway Ministry has unveiled ‘Mission 41K’ to save Rs. 41,000 crore on the Indian Railways’ expenditure on energy consumption over the next 10 years. The launch of this programme was announced at a Roundtable Discussion on Energy Initiatives of Indian Railways with external stakeholders headed by Union Railway Minister ...
Read More »Rail Insurance Cover upto Rs.10 Lacs: Absolutely Free for you now!
[tii_pullquote]“In the age of Information, Ignorance can be a costly Affair” [/tii_pullquote] Indian Railways came up with a scheme of accident travel Insurance cover in September with bumper benefits upto Rs. 10 lacs. [tii_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCe0woRhZjo”] We heard couple of news about accidents of derailing trains in past month. There were ...
Read More »Rail Vikas Shivir: Rejuvenation of 163 year old Indian railways
At the initiative of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, as an milestone mega exercise, involving the entire organization at all levels, Indian Railways is organizing a 3 day Rail Vikas Shivir (Rail Development Camp) at Surajkund near New Delhi, from 18th November 2016 to 20th November 2016 with a ...
Read More »Now travel with Insurance Cover upto Rs.10 lacs in your hand: IRCTC
This scheme is offered by IRCTC in partnership with with ICICI Lombard General Insurance, Royal Sundaram and Shriram General. The scheme will offer travellers and their families a compensation of up to Rs 10 lakh in the event of death or permanent total disability. Rs 7.5 lakh for permanent partial ...
Read More »Indian Railways plans to increase its revenue from property
In a bid to increase its revenue, the Indian Railways has decided to tap the biggest asset, property to cover up the financial deficit of Rs. 32,067 of the financial year 2015-2016. Although increasing the rail fare is a big challenge, the Railways has planned to make commercial use of ...
Read More »Indian Railways may soon provide passengers with Insurance Cover
Indian Railways is in talks with 7 insurance companies to provide the passengers with insurance cover for train travel. Once the agreement is signed, passengers will be able to buy insurance cover by paying an additional premium while booking their tickets. Minister of State for Railways Mr. Manoj Sinha revealed ...
Read More »Indian Railways to establish special research unit called SRESHTA
The Indian Railways is all set to establish a special wing to conduct in-house research. The research wing, named SRESHTA (Special Railway Establishment for Strategic Technology and Holistic Advancement), will mainly include scientists and railways experts. Indian Railways at present has its own research firm known as Research Design and ...
Read More »Railway Budget 2016-17 in detail
Mission ‘zero accident’ to prevent train mishaps Plans to eliminate all unmanned level crossings on the broad gauge network in 3-4 years for which innovative financing mechanism are being worked out to curb train accidents. Elimination of unmanned level crossings and installation of Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)in the rail network. ...
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