Railways

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 ...

Indian Railways is encouraging youth to come up with innovative startups and help railways  break the stereotype mindset people had for years now. News: A policy is being drafted to incorporate new products and services developed by startups towards building greater innovation within Indian Railways. National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) will draft ...

The telecom wing of the Indian Railway, RailTel, has signed an agreement with the subsidiary of Google India to provide WiFi facilities at 400 stations across the country. In first phase, as many as 100 stations out of the total A1 and A categories would be covered with the offering, while ...

The first big ‘Make in India’ projects, worth Rs 40,000 crore, are approved with the Ministry of Railways signing formal agreements with global giants Alstom and GE transport to set up locomotive manufacturing factories in Madhepura and Marhaura in Bihar. It has taken almost a decade for the final contracts to ...