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The government says the high-speed rail tracks will run parallel to an expressway and benefit thousands of passengers, farmers and traders in both directions Soon, you will be able to reach Nagpur from Mumbai in just five hours! Indian Railways is planning to construct a dedicated high-speed railway line alongside the under-construction Nagpur-Mumbai Super Express, which is also known as Samriddhi Mahamarg. The high-speed railway line will reduce the travel time by up to 10 hours once it is completed. Currently, it takes around 13 to 14 hours to reach from Mumbai to Nagpur and vice-verse via rail. "The line will run parallel to the Expressway and benefit thousands of passengers, farmers and traders, in both directions,” Piyush Goyal said. Indian Railways, Maha Metro Rail Corporation Limited and the state government have signed a MoU to build a Mass Rapid Transit System in Nagpur. The aim to is to connect the railway line with the existing metro coaches. U...

The service, which offers thirty minutes of free access to the internet, saw users consuming about 350 MB of data per session on an average Tech giant Google on Thursday said it has rolled out free public WiFi at 400 Indian railway stations in collaboration with RailTel. Launched as a key initiative under Digital India programme, the service was kicked off from Mumbai Central station in January 2016, and Dibrugarh in Assam has become the 400th station to go live today, Google said in a statement. The project has succeeded in its mission of bringing connectivity to millions of unconnected Indians, leveraging on the nationwide optic fiber network backbone created by RailTel, it added. RailTel is the telecom arm of Indian Railways. Within the first year of the project's launch, 100 of the busiest railway stations across India were brought online, enabling 15,000 people to experience the internet for the first time every day, it said. "With over 8 mil...

A mix of clever railway ticket pricing and fortunate global conditions pushed thousands of Indians to start flying There are a few things about the  Indian Railways  ’ performance and the boom in India’s aviation sector under the Narendra Modi government that catch the eye. For one, in an unprecedented development, the number of rail passengers travelling in 2nd AC compartments in 2016-17 saw a steep decline from a year earlier. Secondly, fewer people have been using the Indian Railways services than during the last few years of the Manmohan Singh-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Thirdly, the exponential growth seen in the number of India’s air travellers lately has as much to do with the pricing of railway tickets as with rising incomes and falling jet fuel prices leading to air tickets being more affordably priced. And, finally, if India’s per capita income continues to increase at the pace it has over the past decade, and airlines cont...

The video of the incident took place in December 2017 in the Charminar Express, at Secunderabad (Telangana) station A fine of Rs 100,000 has been imposed on a vending contractor by the Indian Railways after a video showing some vendors purportedly filling tea and coffee cans from inside a train toilet surfaced. The video of the incident that took place in December 2017 in the Charminar Express, at Secunderabad(Telangana) station, shows some vendors coming out of a train toilet with the cans, suggesting that the water was mixed in the cans inside the toilet. The vendors in question, who were unauthorised hawkers, were engaged by platform catering stalls. One of the vendors, employed by contractor P Sivaprasad, following an inquiry by Railways authorities, revealed that they were only transferring the leftover beverage in the toilet to sell it in their respective platform stalls. Claiming that there was no mixing of toilet water in the cans, he further said that they...

Indian Railways policy for booking tickets through  IRCTC Next Generation eTicketing System  have changed. Know IRCTC rules for train ticket Planning a vacation this summer? If you're excited about taking a train journey, you must know the new rules Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has introduced for booking railways tickets on its online portal. But, before that - link Aadhaar number with your IRCTC account. When IRCTC was launched in 2002, only 29 online tickets were booked on the first day. Today, more than 1.3 million online tickets are booked through IRCTC portal -  IRCTC Next Generation eTicketing System  - the e-ticketing outlet of the national carrier. About 20 million people travel by Indian Railways every day. Here are some exciting changes Indian Railways has introduced for rail passengers who link their IRCTC account with Aadhaar: Now users are allowed to book up to 12 tickets in a month if users get themselves ver...

IRCTC users will be able to pay via cash, debit card or credit card by with option of home delivery Current Affairs  : People can now pay later for tickets booked under the tatkal quota on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) website. Till now, this service was available only for general reservations. For tatkal bookings, people had to pay first via the standard online payment gateways before the IRCTC portal confirms the ticket. For tatkal tickets, IRCTC users will be able to pay via cash, debit card or credit card by opting to have tickets delivered at their doorstep. IRCTC processes 130,000 Tatkal transactions daily. A majority of these tickets are booked within minutes of the quota opening. The new feature eliminates the transaction failures as often the money gets debited and the ticket is not issued due to multiple reasons. The refund cycle is about seven to 15 days. "The pay on delivery feature completely circumvents the use of a payment ...