Thursday, 31 July 2014

Railways to Install 5000 more Automatic Ticket Vending Machines at Stations

Automatic Ticket Vending Machines operated by Smart Card are already functional over Indian Railways. It is proposed to add another 5000 such machines across all zonal railways, out of which 2000 will be coin operated and 3000 smart cart operated. The procurement will start from this financial year. 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. 


Railways to Provide Rail Connectivity to all Capitals of North Eastern Region


To provide rail connectivity to capitals of Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram, Byrnihat-Shillong, Jiribam-Imphal, Dimapur-Kohima and Bhairabi-Sairang new line projects have been taken up respectively by the Indian Railways. Sivok-Rangpo new line has been taken up to connect Sikkim but the proposal to extend this line upto Gangtok has not been taken up.

Rail connectivity exists for all state capitals except, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Panaji. All the Union Territories except Andaman & Nicobar, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu and Lakshadweep are connected with rail link. 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. 


Railways Plan to Provide wi-fi Facility at Major Stations and in Important Trains 
Railway proposes Wi-Fi facility at ‘A1’ & ‘A’ category stations and in 50 rakes of important trains in Rajdhani/Shatabdi/Duranto category. This is in addition to Wi-Fi facility provided in 3 rakes of Howrah-New Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani Express as a pilot project.

For the pilot project on Howrah-New Delhi Rajdhani Ex;press, an amount of Rs 6.67 crore has been spent by Eastern Railway. Further, provision of Wi-Fi in 50 rakes of important trains in Rajdhan/Shatabdi/Duranto category at an estimated cost of Rs. 55 crore is planned. In the current financial year, an amount of Rs. 1.00 crore has been allocated to Northern Railway which is executing this work. At stations, Wi-Fi facility will be provided by RailTel Corporation of Indian Limited (CIL) a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Railways through Internet Service Providers with no investment by Railways.

For Wi-Fi in trains and at stations, Railway will be using a cost effective technology and the same is being deliberated. Once the technology is selected, further action will be taken to make it operational.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. 




Courtesy: pib.nic.in

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