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Railways orders closure of last printing presses in digital push

Railways owned 14 printing presses, of which nine were ordered to be shut down earlier

Body cameras for railway ticket checkers, pilot project starts in Mumbai

Railway ticket checkers are being provided body cameras with the aim to ensure transparency in the process and prevent violent and unruly behaviour on board trains, officials said. As a pilot project, the Central Railway has procured 50 such body cameras and provided them to ticket checkers in the Mumbai Division. Procured at a cost of Rs 9,000 each, these body cameras can record about 20 hours of footage. Officials say that if the pilot project in Mumbai is successful, it will be replicated across the rail network. Body cameras were first worn by police in the United Kingdom in 2005 and have since been adopted by numerous police forces and law enforcement agencies worldwide. Several police forces in India also use body cameras. "The body cameras would help maintain transparency during ticket checking and prevent misbehavior and violent acts. The initiative would also help detect any discrepancy during ticket checking, particularly in the event of complaints, and would further ...

37,011 route kilometres of tracks electrified in last 9 years: Railways

Over the last nine years, the Indian Railways has electrified 37,011 Route Kilometres (RKM) of tracks, the national transporter said Thursday. Between India's independence and 2014, only 21,413 RKMs of railway tracks were electrified. However, over the past nine years, the pace of electrification in the country has accelerated significantly, with a record-breaking 37,011 route kilometres of tracks being electrified in the last nine years alone, taking the total electrified routes in the Indian Railways network to 58,424 RKMs, which accounts for 90 per cent of the total, it said. "Out of the total route kilometers electrified, nearly 50 per cent was completed in the last five years alone. The Indian Railways has set a target to become the world's largest green railway with zero carbon emissions by 2030. It has already achieved 100 per cent railway electrification in 14 states/Union Territories, making significant strides towards achieving this ambitious goal," the railways said. The

Railways to start hydrogen train trials in current financial year: Lahoti

Railway Board Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti on Wednesday said work was underway on the project to develop the country's first hydrogen train and efforts were being made to start its trial in the current financial year itself. Running trains on hydrogen would be a huge "technological breakthrough" in the country, Lahoti told reporters in Indore. "The Northern Railway has already awarded the contract to develop the hydrogen train and work is underway on it," he said. Hydrogen train is a new technology at the international level and such a train is being developed for the first time in the country, hence the Indian Railways is aiming to complete the project in an efficient manner instead of setting very strict timelines for it, he said. "We want the testing of hydrogen trains to start in this financial year in the country," Lahoti said. Hydrogen train technology is still under development around the world. We will move ahead on this front as we learn this new technology, he said. Lahot

NDLS latest casualty as budget constraints halt station revamp exercise

L&T quoted more than Rs 8,000 crore for the renovation. However, the government's bid price was around Rs 5,000 crore

Railways earns Rs 2,242 cr from senior citizens by suspending concession

The Railways has earned an additional revenue of around Rs 2,242 crore from senior citizen travellers in 2022-23 by revoking concession offered to them, an RTI response has found. The national transporter had generated Rs 1,500 crore in excess between March 20, 2020 -- when the assistance was suspended after the onset of the Covid pandemic -- and March 31, 2022. In its reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query filed by Madhya Pradesh-based Chandra Shekhar Gaur, the Railways said that between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023, it did not offer concessions to almost eight crore senior citizens which included about 4.6 crore men, 3.3 crore women and 18,000 transgenders. The total revenue from senior citizen travellers during the period is Rs 5,062 crore which includes an additional Rs 2,242 crore, earned due to the suspension of the concession, according to the RTI reply. For the Railways, the earnings from senior citizen fares has increased at a steady pace. Between March 20, 2020 a

Rail Vikas Nigam Limited receives the status of Navratna from Centre

With RVNL, India now has 15 Navratnas including names like Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Bharat Electronic Ltd and Oil India Ltd

Railway network in 14 states 100% electrified in FY23, Northeast lags

States and UTs like Punjab, Goa, Rajasthan, and Karnataka have close to 80 per cent of the network electrified

PM Modi to inaugurate India's first water metro in Kochi on Tuesday

He will also flag off Kerala's first Vande Bharat Express and inaugurate other projects worth more than Rs 3,200 cr

Rlys lowers RoRo freight rates by a third on dedicated freight corridors

New rates to ply for 6 months to test market appetite

Indian Railways earns record revenue of Rs 2.40 trillion in 2022-23

Indian Railways earned Rs 63,300 Cr as passenger revenue in 2022-23 as compared to Rs 39,214 crore in 2021-22 which is 61% higher than the last financial year

Indian Railways earns record revenue of Rs 2.40 trillion in 2022-23

Indian Railways has registered a record revenue of Rs 2.40 lakh crore in the 2022-23 financial year, up by nearly Rs 49,000 crore from the previous year, according to a ministry statement on Monday. In 2022-23, the freight revenue rose to Rs 1.62 lakh crore, a growth of nearly 15 per cent from the previous year. Indian Railways' passenger revenue has registered an all-time high growth of 61 per cent to reach Rs 63,300 crore. "After three years, Indian Railways is able to fully meet the pension expenditures. Buoyancy in revenues and tight expenditure management have helped in achieving an operating ratio of 98.14 per cent, well within the RE target. After meeting all revenue expenditure, railways generated Rs 3,200 crore for capital investment from its internal resources," it said. The railways has over the years approached the Finance Ministry to bear parts of its pension burden. The statement further stated that in terms of traffic revenue, the railways earned Rs 63,300 crore in

Vande Bharat Metro to hit tracks by December 2023; check features

The highly anticipated Vande Metro is expected to provide an affordable mode of transportation and will connect major cities, while also reducing the pressure on the suburban train network

Railways' Pankaj Mukheja upstages Aishwary Tomar in shooting trials

Railways' Pankaj Mukheja won his second match in two days, emerging victorious in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event at the national selection trials after getter the better of Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar here on Sunday. He had won the T3 (third) trials of the same event on Saturday. In the T4 gold medal match, Pannkaj overcame local favourite Tomar 16-12 to come out on top. Also winning on the day was Mehuli Ghosh, now representing the ONGC. She won the women's 10m air rifle T4 trials with a 17-9 result over her former state-mate Swarnali Roy of West Bengal. Rajasthan's Bhavesh Shekhawat claimed the men's 25m rapid fire pistol T4 trials. The day, however, belonged to Pankaj, who completed the men's 3P double on his current trip to Bhopal, after getting the better of Railways colleague Swapnil Kusale in the T3 trials. Swapnil was pushed to third on Sunday by India number one Aishwary who finished second in the ranking round to claim the right to challenge Pankaj for ..

More Indians are flying post-pandemic, only few prefer to travel by train

According to the data compiled till February shows that for 11 months of FY23, passenger booking was down by more than 1.815 billion as against the same period of FY20

Railways introduces HSN codes to stem losses from commodity transport

It's a bid to stem losses from misdeclaration of goods

BHEL-led consortium bags order of 80 sleeper class Vande Bharat trains

A consortium led by state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has bagged an order worth more than Rs 9,600 crore to supply 80 sleeper class Vande Bharat trains to Indian Railways over a period of six years. There is a demand for running sleeper class Vande Bharat or Train18 trainsets as these can ply on long routes like Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah. Presently, all Vande Bharat trains in operation only have chair car and executive chair car classes. The BHEL-led consortium has been awarded an order for 80 Vande Bharat trains in the mega tender of the Indian Railways, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. The order is for supply of 80 trains each at a cost of Rs 120 crore, excluding taxes and duties. According to the filing, the order for AMC (Annual Maintenance Contract) has also been placed for 35 years. BHEL will supply the 80 trains over a period of 72 months. The consortium, comprising BHEL and Titagarh Wagons Ltd, is called Technology Partner. As per th

RINL aims to make 55,000 wheels in FY24 to meet Railways' demand: CMD Bhatt

State-owned steel maker RINL is aiming to produce 55,000 wheels in the current financial year to meet the demand from Indian Railways, its CMD Atul Bhatt said. Visakhapatnam-based Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) has set up a forged wheel plant at Lalganj, in Uttar Pradesh at an estimated cost of Rs 2,350-crore with a capacity to manufacture one lakh forged wheels per annum. "RINL supplied 2,465 Loco wheels and 2,639 LHB wheels to Railways in FY23. Preliminary Acceptance Certificate (PAC) has been issued for the plant and very soon production will be ramped up to 55,000 wheels in the current fiscal to meet the demand of Railways," he told PTI. The steel maker started supplying wheels in December 2021 when the first consignment of 51 loco wheels was flagged off from its Rae Bareli unit in Uttar Pradesh to the Railways. The targeted 50 per cent utilisation of the plant will significantly reduce the dependence on imports and help the national transporter to source the Made in India ..

Railway Board inspects working of Kavach system between two stations

Railway Board Chairman and CEO Anil Kumar Lahoti on Sunday inspected the working of KAVACH-- an indigenous Automatic Train Protection system -- between Lingampalli and Chitgidaa stations in Telangana. Lahoti travelled in one of the locomotives as part of the first-hand demonstration. The locomotives are equipped with KAVACH systems and he observed how the system automatically regulates the speed of the train while passing through the loop lines, how the whistling automatically happens while passing through the level crossing gates and how the system prevents the train from passing the signal at danger (SPAD), a release from South Central Railways (SCR) said here. He also oversaw how the KAVACH systems on the rolling stock helps in avoiding the train collisions either rear collision or head-on collision with the systems automatically applying brakes without the need for human intervention. The Railway Board Chairman also reviewed the working of Centre of Excellence for KAVACH ...