Railways

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the Rail budget speech which quite stood up to his promise of ‘innovative solutions’. The budget that he presented will have many new trains to cater the increasing demand for the railways. The main agenda that came out from his budget speech is to become an ...

Near about 1,000 railway stations in the country have been developed as ‘Adarsh’ stations with facilities like toilets, drinking water, catering services and waiting rooms. The Adarsh station scheme of developing railway stations started in 2009-2010. Railway Minister Mr. Suresh Prabhu said 1,052 stations were identified out of which 946 ...

Indian Railways on Tuesday has unveiled a new micro-website for Railway Budget 2016-2017 in a bid to update citizens about the budget instantly and help them to watch it live. According to an official statement, this new micro-website will be a one-stop shop for the all the Budget related information. ...

The Ministry of Railways has issued a new rule pertaining to that of online ticket booking through IRCTC website thereby reducing the maximum number of ticket bookings permitted to an individual from current 10 to 6 tickets. The new measures will come into effect from 15th of February. This move ...

The historic Chennai Central railway station is probably to become the first station in Tamil Nadu to get Google’s Wi-Fi network coverage. Officials of RailTel Corporation have said that plans are already ongoing to make the railway station Wi-Fi covered by March, 2016. This is part of Google’s initiative along ...