Indian Railways

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) centred in Guwahati, has deployed the country’s first ever all-women gang for the railway coach and pit line maintenance.

The suggestion of adding a ‘service captain’, identifiable by uniform, in trains to address problems of passengers was made by a committee of senior officers formed by railway minister Piyush Goyal - after meeting with all zonal heads in December last year.

This project was implemented on a railway engine which was due for its mid-life rehabilitation. Traction motors, bogies and chassis were retained from the older diesel version.

An MDR is an amount that a merchant has to pay to service providers when a consumer uses a debit card to pay for the transaction.

For over ten years, 53-year-old Yatin Naik has been dedicatedly foraging through the station area and railway tracks of Andheri, to collect abandoned wallets by pickpockets after procuring the cash.

The decision was taken after a trial run, where the railway supervisors found a 66 per cent increment in earnings from penalties and fines by the end of the day!

Led by 40-year-old Jitendra Vishe from Shahapur, a civil engineer by profession in Navi Mumbai, a group of railway commuters on Thursday morning raised over Rs 30,000 at Asangaon station.

Currently, the Western-Harbour Line services, operated by the Central Railways run along CSMT-Andheri, CSMT-Panvel and Panvel-Andheri routes.

The Indian Railways plans to manufacture, and possibly export metro coaches.

Leaping into action, he immediately stopped the train. Taking complete charge, alongside his co-staffers, he detached the parcel van from the other coaches first and then from the engine.