Tag Archives: Indian-Railways

People can now pay later for tickets booked under the tatkal quota on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) website, it was announced on Wednesday. Till now, this service was available only for general reservations. For tatkal bookings people had to pay first via the standard online payment ...

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. ...

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 ...

News: Railways have set up 1 megawatt solar power plant at Katra station as part of Green Power initiative. The solar project was commissioned in March this year and presently, out of 5,000 units produced daily by the plant, only 1,700 to 1,800 units are utilized by Shri Mata Vaishno ...

A consortium of Chinese and Indian companies will conduct a feasibility study for the 1,200 km high-speed rail link between New Delhi and Mumbai. The Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation, a subsidiary of the China Railway Corporation (CRC), will work with Indian firms, dispatching rail experts to ...