RailTel Corporation of India Ltd has announced that it has received a work order worth Rs 124.90 crore for the implementation of unified communication infrastructure across the Western Railway zone. The project includes setting up IPMPLS LAN infrastructure, VOIP telephone exchanges, IP-based signaling and control communication systems. It also involves the replacement of existing UTN […]
RailWire, the consumer broadband arm of connectivity provider RailTel, said it plans to invest Rs 125 cr in coming months to increase its subscriber numbers by 20 times in the next two years. The company has already seen an increase of around 2.5 to 3 times in its customers over the last two years, almost […]
Indian Railways has decided to resume live catering services in all long-distance trains, given the restoration of normal train services a week ago, and asked IRCTC to restore live catering services as before. Live catering services, involving the cooking and delivery of food in specially designed kitchen cars on trains, were stopped in February last […]
Ramkrishna Forgings, which recently diversified beyond the automobile market to tide over the uncertainties associated with the sector, has won yet another contract from Indian Railways. The company said it won a contract o supply loco shells, the shell or body of locomotive engines or train engines. The value of the contract was not disclosed. […]
A week after announcing its a substantial, Rs 1,035 cr contract to build viaducts for Indore Metro Rail, state-owned Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd said it has won yet another contract worth Rs 382 cr from Indore Metro to build seven metro stations. The contract includes the construction of the stations as well as the viaduct […]
Railtel Corporation of India, the telecom unit of Indian Railways, said it does not expect to lose subscribers to rival operators like Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, even as it promised to take its RailWire services to even the tiniest of towns this year. RailTel Chairman and Managing Director Punit Chawla said his company is […]
Indian Railways is on track to post a decline of almost 75% in its revenue for the financial year that ended last month, according to data from the ministry of railways, Government of India. For the first 11 months of the financial year (Apr 2020 to Feb 2021), the total passenger revenue fell by three […]
Indian Railways converted 5,601 railway coaches into emergency COVID-19 isolation wards to deal with an expected surge in critical COVID-19 cases, but only 135 of these were ever put to use, data from the ministry of railways reveals. Indian Railways spent a total of 38.30 cr — or about 68,380 per coach — to equip […]
India’s train passenger numbers are down nearly 99% for the five months from April to August, while freight volumes are down only 13% during the same period, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said today. “Owing to the discontinuance of passenger services after the introduction of the lockdown to contain COVID-19 pandemic, upto the end of August, […]
Ministry of Railways, Government of India today said Indian Railways collected Rs 433 cr from the nearly 63 workers who were mass-evacuated using Shramik Special trains during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, it maintained that it did not charge the workers any money, and the amount was collected from those who organized Shramik trains — primarily […]
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, which sells about 73% of India’s reserved railway tickets, said ticket sales continue to be down by about 77%-78%; almost a month-and-a-half after long-distance trains were restarted. “Pre-COVID, we were doing 60 cr rupees worth of tickets a day,” said IRCTC CMD MP Mall. “Now, it’s 13-14 cr.” […]
Maharashtra, one of the states worst affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, has decided not to pass on most of the relaxations allowed by the central government as far as the Coronavirus lockdown 5.0 is concerned. Key among the relaxations that WILL NOT not be allowed in Maharashtra are the opening of religious places of worship, […]
Railway minister Piyush Goyal said 200 mail and express trains will start running the ‘length and breadth’ of the country from Monday, and their number will be gradually ramped to ‘near normal levels’ in coming days. These are not the first regular long-distance trains to be restarted since the lock-down. Indian Railways had, about three […]
Kerala Government has made all institutional quarantine facilities chargeable for anyone admitted from today, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said today. In addition, heavy fines will be imposed on those who enter the state without a pass — in case of road travelers — and without pre-registration, incase of train and air travelers. Since people […]
States seem to be scrambling to put in place a policy to deal with incoming travelers from COVID-19 affected red zone states after the Indian Railways unexpectedly announced that it was restarting some long distance trains from tomorrow. Most states currently limit interstate travel by issuing special passes, so that the number of incoming travelers […]
Lucknow-Delhi Tejas, India’s first privately run train, earned an operational profit of only Rs 7.73 lakh in its first month of operation, and not Rs 70 lakh as reported by the media, according to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. The train had been widely reported in the media to have earned a whopping 70 lakh in […]
Ministry of Railways has announced that it will release by next month the result panel for 66,604 vacancies for which Railway Recruitment Board exams were conducted in 2018. Out of these 66,604 vacancies for which panels will published, around 10,000 are for so-called Level 1 jobs, while the others are for ‘Group C’ jobs. Level […]
Indian Railways booking clerks have been asked to double check all suspicious requests for VIP quota tickets after incidents of forged letters of ‘dignitaries’ have come to light. “Some instances of attempts to get accommodation released out of Emergency Quota on the authority of fake letter heads of high dignitaries and some Railway Officers have […]
India’s largest instrumentation cable maker Cords Cable Industries Ltd said it has won an approval that will qualify it to supply cables to Indian Railways and other railway projects such as metro rail and dedicated freight corridors. The company said it received an approval as a vendor for various projects for the Indian Railways from […]
Steel and energy company Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) said it received an order worth Rs 665 crore from Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) for the supply of over 89,000 tonnes of rails. Rail Vikas Nigam Limited is an organisation associated with the Indian Railways, and builds engineering works for the Indian Railways. JSPL […]
