The Railways has cancelled more than 1.78 crore tickets since March this year due to the coronavirus pandemic and refunded an amount to the tune of Rs 2,727 crore, a RTI has found.
Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav's clarification came days after Niti Ayog CEO Amitabh Kant took note of the Railways' claim and questioned the reliability of the data
The Aayog says there is an absence of advanced technologies to improve the safety, using the fund. This was despite spending Rs 55,000 crore so far
Indian Railways introduces drone-based surveillance system for rail security
The private operators have to submit in advance to the Railways the list of such intermediate stations on the trains' paths where they are proposing halts in advance.
Out of 126 coal-based thermal plants linked with CIL, 14 plants located over 1,400 km distance are eligible for the freight concession presently.
While the initiative of e-office got a push in the last three months, the usage of the commercial bandwidth of Railtel increased 1.5 times and retail bandwidth by 2.25 times during the same period
All special trains -- 12 pairs running on the Rajdhani routes since May 12 and 100 pairs operating since June 1 -- will continue
All regular mail, express and passenger services as well as suburban trains have been cancelled till August 12
Source said that the decision was taken keeping in mind the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country
Officials said the Chinese firm was supposed to complete the work by 2019, but only 20 percent of the work has been completed so far.
The Indian Railways restarted on Monday Mumbai suburban train services for transporting essential staff identified by the government
An estimated 125,000 essential staff, as identified by the state government, is expected to travel by these trains.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said state governments can tell as to how many more migrant workers need to be shifted and how many trains are required for that purpose
Weekly economic indicators show a rise in economic activity in days leading up government announcing easing coronavirus lockdown
Piyush Goyal tweeted, "I appeal to people suffering from serious ailments, pregnant women & those above 65 years & below 10 years of age to travel only when necessary
The changes will be implemented from May 31 onward, according to Indian Railways
Piyush Goyal in his tweets demanded list of passengers from the Maharashtra government on the basis of the guidelines by the Ministry of Home Affairs
The South Central Railway has also listed general guidelines for the train services.
Indian Railways has resumed operations of around 200 trains. All you need to know about the IRCTC special trains, ticket booking, tatkal and refund rules amid coronavirus lockdown