Monday, May 27, 2013

Annual Increment denial to employees who retire after putting in more than Six Months of Service in the year of retirement – Government has no proposal to revise the policy – Minister replies in Rajya Sab...
Mukherjee asks railway probationers to dedicate life and services to nation's cause A group of 56 probationers of the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS) and Indian Railways Service of Stores called on President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monda...
FIVE BOGGIES OF TWO TRAINS CAUGHT FIRE. Newspoint Bureau Jammu Tawi, May 26 Five bogies of two trains-Shalimar Express and Ahmadabad-Jammu Express caught fire under "mysterious" circumstances at Jammu Tawi Railway Station here this evening. No loss to human loss was reported in the incident. Police arrested a suspected youth from Railway Station....
Goods train derails in Dima Hasao TNN | May 27, 2013 SILCHAR: Five boggies of a goods train derailed between the Lower Haflong and Bagetar stations on the Lumding-Silcharmetregauge section under the NF Railway at 11pm on Saturda...
Bed bugs on train, railways told to pay compensation R. Sivaraman Consumer forum says railways can’t get away saying coaches are maintained by private contract...
Maoists remove rails at Jagdalpur, Kirandul section By Express News Service - BHUBANESWAR 27th May 2013&nbs...

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Five bogies of goods train derail Five bogies of a goods train derailed affecting rail services in Lumding-Badarpur metre gauge railway section in Assam's Dima Hasao district....
Chennai: Forty-eight-year-old EMU motorman Manohar might have died on duty yesterday, but his name would be preserved for posterity as a symbol of duty consciousness by the railway department. It was around 3.40 pm that Manohar fell unconscious while piloting the Gummidipoondi-MMC  EMU at Kaverapettai with well over a 100 passengers aboard. Motorman of an EMU running in the opposite direction (MMC-Gummidipoondi) noticed the flasher light...

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Surveillance cameras to be installed at railway reservation offices Staff Reporter The move is aimed at arresting the menace of agents and middlemen at major railway stations...
A first in zero unmanned crossings By Princy Alexander | ENS - KOCHI 23rd May 2013 12:07 PM Soon, the state will wave a red flag to bloody accidents at unmanned rail crossings. Come June, Kerala will become the first state in the country to claim the status of ‘zero’ unmanned level crossings. Since the national target set by the Railway Board for totally eliminating unmanned level crossings is 2015, Kerala will have a two-year headstart...
Welders take shortcuts to finish rail tracks quickly TNN | May 23, 2013, CHENNAI: The rails on the Arakkonam-Mahendrawadi section of Southern Railway, where 11 coaches of the Muzzafarpur-Yeshwantpur Express derailed on April 10, were welded together using a technique considered the best. But this is not foolproof. One person was killed and 32 injured in the April 10 accident....
NEW DELHI, May 21, 2013 Railway employees, touts caught red-handed Staff Reporter As many as 252 railway employees and 116 railway touts were caught red-handed, indulging in reservation malpractices, during the decoy checks conducted by the Northern Railway vigilance squads between March 1 and May 1...
Travel agent’s office raided; fake railway tickets seized Tribune News Service Ludhiana, May 21 The Railway Protection Force (RPF) raided a travel agent’s office at Giaspura and seized 219 fake tickets of advance booking  here today....
Engine of goods train catches fire in Khanna Khanna, May 21 A major tragedy was averted when an engine of a goods train caught fire. The train was stopped at the Khanna railway station as soon as the driver witnessed....
RUK (PAKISTAN), May 20, 2013 Pakistan, rusting in its trac...

Monday, May 20, 2013

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Union calls for protection for train drivers 9 May 2013 ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan today called for greater protection for train drivers from vandals and trespassers on the railways as two more trains were attacked. ‘This is becoming an everyday occurrence,’ Mick said. ‘Our members have the right to go about their occupation without worrying about their safety – and if the driver is under attack, so too are the passengers.’ Micksays...
Railgate: CBI documents validate phone intercepts Abhishek Sharan, Hindustan Times  New Delhi, May 20, 2013 The CBI has gathered adequate corroborative clues to authenticate the reliability of the 1,000-odd telephonic intercepts made by its special unit that led to the cracking of the bribery case allegedly involving suspended railway board member Mahesh Kumar and Vijay Singla, the nephew of former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bans...
Railgate: CBI documents validate phone intercepts Abhishek Sharan, Hindustan Times  New Delhi, May 20, 2013 The CBI has gathered adequate corroborative clues to authenticate the reliability of the 1,000-odd telephonic intercepts made by its special unit that led to the cracking of the bribery case allegedly involving suspended railway board member Mahesh Kumar and Vijay Singla, the nephew of former railway minister Pawan Kumar...
Railways plans to install bio-toilets on more trains Mohammed Akhef, TNN | May 20, 2013, AURANGABAD: Buoyed by the successful installation of 48 bio-toilets on tow long-distance trains, the South Central Railway (SCR) has decided to replace the existing excreta disposal systems in trains such as Secunderabad-Manmad Ajantha Express that passes through Nizambad, Nanded, Aurangabad and Manmad. In January this year, the SCR had installed...
Workers against ICF sharing know-how with private players M. Dinesh Varma ...

Sunday, May 19, 2013

45th Session of the Indian Labour Conference Concludes with A Resolve to Provide Universal Social Security Coverage and Assured Pension to the Entire Working Population The 45th Session of the Indian Labour Conference (ILC) today concluded with a resolve to provide universal social security coverage and assured pension to the entire working population.&nb...
Fund crunch to delay railway projects in North East May 18, 2013 ...
Rail brass makes full use of second homes worth up to Rs 50, 000 in extra income By Maneesh Pandey 19 May 2013 | CBI director Ranjit Sinha may be insisting that a probe be held against RPF Association secretary general U S Jha for "retaining accommodation despite retirement and against formal entitlement", but some of the top railway officers enjoying double housing benefits seem to have flown under the radar....
the railways The gravy train The Railways, with an annual loss of a staggering Rs 27,000 crore, is riddled with corruption. Unless concerted efforts are made to put it back on track and come down hard on those out to milk it dry, there may soon be no option but to privatise the bleeding behemoth, as many countries around the world have already done. By Girja Shankar...
Hawala route for bribe payment in railway scam: CBI New Delhi: The hawala route was used for payment of bribe money in the Railway graft scandal, a preliminary probe by CBI showed, as the agency asked senior Railway officials to join its investigations. As the scandal put Railway Minister P K Bansal in the dock after his nephew Vijay Singla was among the arrested in the alleged Rs 10 crore Railway bribery scandal, the agency shortlisted 500...
DIG leaked raid info: CBI official Rajinder Nagarkoti Tribune News Service Chandigarh, May 18 The CBI DIG, Mahesh Aggarwal, had allegedly leaked the information of a raid by the Delhi CBI at the residence of former Union Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla in Sector 28. A CBI Inspector posted at the Chandigarh office has levelled these allegations...
Govt firmly committed to partnering with unions, industry for growth: PM Aditi Nigam ...
Rail unions demand transparency in top-level appointments Our Bureau Write to Cabinet Secretary; AIRF fears 4-5 lakh promotions will be delayed New Delhi/Kolkata, May 8:   Vacancies in Railway posts should be filled in advance and on seniority basis, the largest union of Indian Railways, the All-India Railwaymen’s Federation (AIRF), has said....
Over 6,400 railway employees came under graft charges PTI New Delhi, May 13:   Over 6,400 railway employees are facing departmental proceedings for being allegedly involved in corruption during 2012...

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Chennai, May 18, 2013 Railways to improve safety levels with communications-based control system Indian Railways plans to roll out a communications-based train management system that provides higher precision in locating trains when compared to the conventional signalling systems, S. Manohar, Chief Signal and Telecommunication Engineer, Southern Railway, said on Friday....
17.05.2013.  Today at National Industrial Tribunal (NIT) Mumbai:  Railway has brought various documents to substantiate their stand.Next hearing fixed on 15.07.2013. AILRSA filed an application to stall newly constituted Empowered Committee on Running Allowanc...

Friday, May 17, 2013

Loco pilots go on strike, demand proper facilities TNN | May 17, 2013, MADURAI: Loco pilots, affiliated to an employee union staged a flash strike for two hours in the Madurai division on Thursday protesting the alleged ill-treatment meted out to one of their counterparts....

Thursday, May 16, 2013

CBI chief Ranjit Sinha under fire for 'acting out of vendetta' TNN | May 16, 2013 NEW DELHI: CBI chief Ranjit Sinha on Wednesday found himself at the centre of a raging controversy with the railway police association attacking him for targeting officers out of vendetta and BJP accusing the agency of a political motive in chargesheeting senior Rajasthan leader Gulab Chand Katari...
Revamp Indian Railways By S N Mathur     16th May 2013  Indian Railways is in the news again, but for all the wrong reasons. Is it symptomatic of the malaise gnawing at the vitals of this pre-eminent undertaking of the government? The sores on its body are showing up only now. The organisation is in dire need of reforms. It is time to consider the changes being wrought in some of the other major railway...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Sri Lanka opens first railway to former war-torn north Xinhua | 2013-5-15   By Agencies Increasing access to the former war- torn north, the Sri Lankan government on Tuesday opened the first phase of a 650-million-US dollar railway after 30 years of suspension and pledged to continue infrastructure development in the region, an official said...
In 2 yrs, rlys spent Rs 12 lakh on vandalised ATVMs PRIYAL DAVE Tue May 14 2013 OVER the past two years, Central and Western Railway have spent nearly Rs 12 lakh to replace touch screens of 44 automatic ticket vending machines (ATVMs) that were vandalised. The cost of replacing a touch screen is around Rs 28,000, sources said....

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Rail bribery scam probe to be over in 3 months: CBI chief  Tuesday, May 14, 2013, New Delhi: The probe into the bribery scandal that led to resignation of Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is expected to be completed within three months, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha said on Tuesday....
13 trains booked for Lalu rally PTI Patna, May 14:   With tomorrow’s Parivartan rally considered crucial to reassert the popularity of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, the party has booked 13 trains to transport people to the event here....

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Old Luxury Trains from "Golden Age of Rail Travel" at Grand Central Terminal Historical train cars from the "Golden Age of Rail Travel" went on display inside New York City's Grand Central Terminal on Friday (May 10). The display is part of Grand Central Terminal's ongoing Centennial celebration, honoring the terminal's 100-year histor...
Rail bribery scam: Phone taps sent to forensic lab PTI  New Delhi, May 11, 2013 CBI has sent intercepted phone conversations to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory to identify the voices of suspects in the Rs. 10 crore railway bribery scandal which saw the resignation of Pawan Bansal as the railway minister....
Rail bribery scam: CBI gets 90 days to file chargesheet The agency is currently in the process of questioning senior rail board members, ministry officials Central Bureau of Investigation will file a chargesheet within the next three months in connection with the rail bribery scam. CBI is in the process of questioning senior rail board members and ministry officials. It will question Pawan Kumar Bansal, who resigned as the rail minister yesterday, soon...

Saturday, May 11, 2013

CBI links Railway Protection Force to cash-for-jobs scam: Sources Arunoday Mukharji CNN-IBN | 11-May 13 New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has secured key leads linking Railway Protection Force (RPF) to Recruitment Scam to Railway cash-for jobs scam, said sources. CBI sources added that RPF officials played key role in dubious recruitment deal...
Over 200 Karnataka legislators are multi-millionaires Over 200 members of the newly elected 225-member Karnataka assembly are 'crorepatis' (multi-millionaires), said an election watchdog after analyzing their declared assets. Of 218 assets studied by the Karnataka Election Watch (KEW) showed that 203 of them, that is 93 percent, are "crorepatis", up from 63 percent who were 'crorepatis' in the ougoing assembly, the NGO said in a release...
Shanghai mulls air train scheme By Wu Jin The Shanghai skyline looks set to get a new addition as the city makes plans to build new air train tracks to ease growing traffic congestion. The cutting-edge technology of air trains, first introduced in Europe, comprises high-rise tracks and "hanging trains" which feature all-electric motorized suspended trains which will zigzag among Shanghai's skyscraper...
THE HINDU THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, May 11, 2013 Dearth of stationmasters puts rail safety in jeopardy S. Anil Radhakrishnan Posts of 79 stationmasters vacant in Thiruvananthapuram division The surrender of 45 additional posts of stationmasters, their increasing work load, and the move to abolish posts of platform-duty stationmasters have once again put rail safety in jeopard...
Irregular postings in RPF under CBI lens Neeraj Chauhan, TNN | May 11, 2013 Some top appointments including that of RPF DG P K Mehta and others in the railway ministry are under the scanner....
Railway clerk threatens passenger TNN | May 10, 2013 SURAT: Pritesh Randive, a senior executive with a public sector company, who had gone to book tickets at the ticket window on platform number 4 for his son and mother-in-law, who were visiting Ahmedabad on Friday, found himself on the receiving end of a booking cler...

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Indian Railways issues RFQ for diesel loco plant INDIA's Ministry of Railways has invited requests for qualification (RFQ) to establish a new diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra, in the Saran district of Bihar provin...
Railway bribery scam: CBI to question Pawan Kumar Bansal today?  Thursday, May 09, 2013, Zee Media Bure...
1. Save as otherwise, a berth or a seat reserved in the name of a person shall be used only by the person and shall not be transferable to any other person.2. Chief Reservation Supervisor of important stations are authorized by Railway Administration to permit the change of name of a passenger having a seat or berth reserved in his name in the following circumstances namely...
Konkan Railway Corporation Limited invites 60 Assistant Loco Pilot Konkan Railway Corporation Limited   ...
The Bansal episode and the backward journey of Indian Railways May 8, 2013...
Rail Roaded May 07 2013, 01:08 IST Railway procurement systems need a thorough revamp if corruption in appointments is to be curb...
Rail officer wanted board post, GM job DC | Manish Anand | 06th May 2...
From Coalgate to Rail bribe: How Ranjit Sinha is redeeming the CBI by Abhay Vaidya May 8, 2013 After wasting Rs.250 crore of the tax payers’ money in pursuing the Bofors scam for 25 years and giving a clean chit to Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi and others at the end of it, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is witnessing one of its best moments toda...
Railway officers want Dept of Personnel to handle promotions, postings Santanu Sanyal Federation of Railway Officers’ Associations seeks Cabinet Secretary's intervention Kolkata, May 8: &nbs...
Railway bribery scam: Mamu will fix Kumar’s posting, Singla boasted Neeraj Chauhan, TNN | May 9, 2013,...
NEW DELHI, May 9, 2013 Bansal must quit, says railway union K. Balchand ‘Keeping posts vacant from bottom to top give room for corruption and discriminati...
Railway bribery scam: Sunil Kumar Gupta, wife taken on boards of firms Rohan Dua, TNN | May 9, 2013,  CHANDIGARH: Even as Sunil Kumar Gupta, the auditor for Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's sons' firms was nominated as a director at the state-run Canara Bank, he and his wife were handed out lucrative profiles in companies run by Bansal clan....
CBI quizzes Bansal’s private secretary TNN | May 9, 2013,  NEW DELHI: Allegations of a powerful clique in railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's office centering on his private secretary Rahul Bhandari of several years have led the CBI to the official with the agency speaking to Bhandari on Wednesday....

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

ACD

ACD system yet to see light of the day 07 May 2013, ACD system yet to see light of the day New Delhi: The past track record of the Railways on the safety front has been dismal. Even though there have been major accidents claiming several lives, the Railways are yet to install anti-collision devices (ACDs) in trains to prevent train mishap...
Railway bribery: Close aide of Pawan Bansal's nephew surrenders Arunima, CNN-IBN | Updated May 07, 2013...
Tip of the iceberg? Scanner on more rail appointments May 06, 2013 - MANISH ANAND |the bribe scam involving suspended Railway Board member (staff) Mahesh Kumar and railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla is just the tip of an iceberg pointing to deep-rooted corruption in the Indian Railways, it has emerged that the tainted officer was lobbying...
Railgate: The signal came from an insider Aman Sharma, ET Bureau May 6, 2013, (Cops outside PK Bansal’s…) NEW DELHI: A tip-off from a disgruntled officer three months ago led CBI to eventually arrest railway minister PK Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla red-handed while accepting a bribe, plunging the government into yet another crisi...
Railways the most corrupt govt department: CVC data By Aman Sharma, ET Bureau | 6 May, 20...
Rail bribe scam: CBI likely to interrogate Pawan Kumar Bansal May 6, 20...
Railway bribery case: One more accused arrested 5 May 2013 sns & agenciesNEW DELHI, 5 MAY: The CBI today arrested one more accused in the Railway bribery scandal involving Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew and a board member, taking the total number of those apprehended to ni...
Railway bribery scam: A return gift by CBI director Ranjit Sinha? by FP Staff May 6, 2013 Last year, when the UPA stonewalled the stiff opposition of the BJP in appointing Ranjit Sinha as the CBI director, would it have ever imagined that their chosen man would bring them big trouble in near future? If he exposed the meddling of the government in Coalgate investigation probably under the fear of...

Monday, May 6, 2013

Railway bribery case: CBI hunts for Bansal's another nephew 06 May 2013, 07:16 PM New Delhi: In further embarrassment for the Union Railway Minister, name of Pawan Kumar Bansal’s another nephew has surfaced in the ‘job for sale’ scanda...
Railway bribery case: CBI probing nexus between RPF, middlemen CNN-IBN...
Corruption is no one’s monopoly: Sibal Staff Reporter ‘Bharatiya Janata Party has a history of demanding resignatio...
May 6, 2013 When it rains, it pours If misfortunes never come singly, who should know it better than a party and government whose fate through the past four years has been to lurch from scam to scam, crisis to crisis?...
MUMBAI, May 5, 2013 Arrested railway officer sent to two days of transit remand by Mumbai Court Staff Reporter   Member of Railway Board Mahesh Kumar was on Saturday sent to two days’ transit remand by the Sessions Court her...
New Delhi, May 5, 2013 Bansal's fate uncertain Smita Gupta Congress Core Group likely to meet today to take a final v...
CBI probe fails to establish Bansal role in cash-for-job scam By Abhishek Sharan | Hindustan Times  May 6 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s preliminary probe into the railway bribery case has failed to establish the involvement of railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, though the agency has arrested nine accused, including his nephew Vijay...
MADURAI, May 6, 2013 Railway Board Chairman cancels visit to Madurai, Thiruvananthapuram Special Correspond...
1 more held in Railgate May 6, 2013 CBI gets custody of 3 more accused&nbs...

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Saga of Railways: Stink of corruption and woes of commuters  Posted by: Maitreyee Updated: Saturday, May 4, 2013,   Those who travel by Indian Railways very well know the stink that block the nostrils, the moment you board a train. Ill-managed, badly-equipped, accident prone, unsafe and dirty trains are no new to commuters....
AC problem on double-decker train DC | S. Thirunavukkarasu | 04th May 2...
Historic Indian steam locos to run again in England amid extravaganza on weekend Saturday, May 4, 2013, 11:52 IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Rajendra Aklekar  Two historic...
           RESULT OF SECRET BALLOT ELECTIONS, INDIAN RAILWAYS (25,26 &27 APRIL 201...
Railway Board bribery case: CBI arrests Pawan Bansal's nep...
northern railways election NRMU, URMU get recognition Charanjit Singh Teja Tribune News Servi...
04-May-2013 Railway Board Member (staff) Mahesh Kumar arrested by CBI for paying br...

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Use of CNG/LNG in Train Operation One DEMU Power Car (DPC) of Shakurbasti Diesel Shed has been converted to CNG-diesel dual-fuel mode and is running successfully for the last few years. Three contracts have been awarded for CNG conversion of 50 numbers of DPCs....
Expenditure on Fuel in Railways The increase in the rates of High Speed Diesel (HSD) oil in January 2013 has added Rs. 3,300 crore to the annual fuel bill of Railways....
Shri Mahesh Kumar Takes Over as Member Staff Railway Board  Shri Mahesh Kumar has taken over as Member (Staff) Railway Board and ex officio Secretary to the Government of India. Prior to this posting, Shri Mahesh Kumar was General Manager, Western Railway (WR) (Headquarter: Churchgate,Mumbai)....

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Railways for setting up of an Electric Locomotive Factory at Madhepura, Bihar and a Diesel Locomotive Factory at Marhowra, Bihar, to start afresh the bidding processes for these project...
Sri Arunendra Kumar took over Member mechanical of Railway Board Shri Arunendra Kumar has taken over as Member (Mechanical) Railway Board and ex officio Secretary to the Government of India....
GM SWR LAUNCHES SWR’s “SAFETY POSTERS” Shri ASHOK KUMAR MITAL, GM/SWR LAUNCHES SWR’s “SAFETY POSTERS” & “JAGRUTHI – SAFETY MAGAZI...
Railways to go for new bidding for Bihar locomotive units By PTI | 1 May, 2013, NEW DELHI: Cancelling the previous tender finalized during Lalu Prasad's tenure as Railway Minister for setting up two multi-crore rupee locmotive projects in Bihar, government today decided to start a afresh bidding process for them with changed terms and conditions....
ECoR's cleanliness drive: 9435 fined, Rs 6.2 lakh collected By PTI | 1 May, 2013 BHUBANESWAR: More than 9,000 people have been penalised and Rs 6.21 lakh collected from them as fine during the cleanliness and anti-spitting drive launched by East Coast Railway (ECoR) in December, 2012....
Today's Paper »  ANDHRA PRADESH   RAJAHMUNDRY, May 1, 2013 Emergency medical tool van turns to ash Staff Repor...

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