Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Ownership of Indian Railways to remain with Govt: Suresh Prabhu India Infoline News Service | Mumbai | December 31, 2014  Minister of State Manoj Sinha said that it is the duty of railway administration to fulfill the expectations of railway users and we have to constantly work to improve the image of Indian Railw...
R. Soundara Pandian -  Leader of All India Loco Running Staff Association ...

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Railway Minister Commissions Solar Plant in Rail Bhawan...

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Railway official convicted in graft case Press Trust of India  |  Chennai  December 18, 2...
To       High Level Railway Restructuring Committee.       At Bangalore. Respected Sir, Since Railway is a technically equipped Transport organisation exchange of officers from other Department ie administrative officers (IAS) to Railways is not correct. Present system of IRS should continue. Also present system of Railway Board is to be continue...
High Level Committee for Railway Restructuring Committee for mobilisation of resources for major railway projects and restructuring of Railway, Ministry and Railway Bo...

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Terrorist attack in Pakistan kills more than 130 children By Keith Jones 17 December 2014 A terrorist attack Tuesday by the Tehreek-e-Taliban or Pakistan Taliban on a military-supported public school in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan left more than 150 people dead—the vast majority of them childre...
US unions back historic assault on workers’ pensions 17 December 2014 Last week, the US Congress approved a bipartisan “pension reform” measure that will undo 40 years of retirement income rights for industrial and other private-sector workers in the United State...
Kozhikode, December 17, 2014 Fill vacancies, demands loco pilots’ forum Special Correspondent...
MANGALURU, December 17, 2014 Loco pilots protest ‘oppression’ Anil Kumar Sastry...

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Trackman run over by train between Thane and Mulund Tuesday, 16 December 2014 - 5:45am IST | Agency: dna dna Correspondent ...
Published on: Dec 16 2014 1:53AM Trade unions ground flights, cut global rail li...

Sunday, December 14, 2014

ALL INDIA DIESEL LOCO SEMINAR AT NEW GUWAHATI Diesel Locomotive Shed, New Guwahati is celebrating its 53rdFoundation Day o­n the 12th of December 2014. o­n the occasion of the foundation day, the Shed is organizing an ALL INDIA DIESEL LOCO SEMINAR o­n 12thand 13th Dec 2014 where senior supervisors from Diesel Loco Sheds and Workshops from all over Indian Railways will participate o­n technical...

Friday, December 12, 2014

The Vijayawada and Secunderabad Committee of All India Loco Running Association have Conducted the “RUNNING STAFF CONVENTION” on 12.12.2014 at the PRESS CLUB, Vijayawada....

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Beijing, December 11, 2014 World’s longest train journey ends inShare A goods train from China completed the world’s longest rail journey when it reached Madrid, its final destination, on Tuesda...

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Privatisation of Railway Services: Needed a Pragmatic Approach December 8, 2014 by Debu...
RBI notifies new FDI policy for defence, railways infra Press Trust of India  |  Mumbai  December 8, 2...
Suburban rail 20 times cheaper than Metro: IISc TNN | Dec 9, 2014, Bengaluru: Developing the existing railway infrastructure inside and outside Bengaluru can go a long way in tackling the city's transport mess, an IISc study confirmed. "The government should consider options like suburban rail, which requires minimal intervention and use of existing facilities rather than building anything from scratch," it has sa...

Saturday, December 6, 2014

High-level Committee constituted for improving financial health of Indian Railways To submit its report by December...

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Indian Railways identifies nine corridors for semi high speed tra...

Monday, December 1, 2014

Railway Board Exam Racket Busted in Hyderabad, 30 Held By Express News Service  01st December 2014 ...
Hi-Tech mass copying in Railway Exams Sunday, 30 November 2014 ...
Imagine bullet train to Capital in 6 hours flat R Mohan | December 01, 20...
China to offer aid for India high-speed rail study December 01, 2014 RECORDER REP...
Faulty rail signals put lives at risk Smriti Sharma Vasudeva, Bengaluru, Nov 30, 2014, DHNS...

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Meghalaya on Country’s Railway Map By Prasanta Mazumdar 30th November 2014...

Friday, November 28, 2014

Committee on Restructuring of Railways Ministry of Railways have constituted a committee on 22.09.2014 with a tenure of one year for “Mobilization of resources for major Railway projects and Re-structuring of Railways, Ministry & Railway Board” under the chairmanship of Dr. Bibek Debroy. The terms of reference of the committee are:...

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

MYSURU, November 26, 2014 High-speed train: Chinese delegation to visit Mysuru R. Krishna Ku...
AILRSA 20th All India Conference Report: All India Loco Running Staff Association 20th All India Conference held at Chithorgarh( Rajasthan), Rathlam Division of Western Railway on 15 & 16 November 201...

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

China to offer aid for India high-speed rail study NEW DELHI/SHANGHAI Tue Nov 25, 2014...

Monday, November 24, 2014

Anti-corrosive Rail Tracks to be Introduced Soon By Princy Alexander  24th November 2014 KOCHI: Keeping in mind the corrosion of railway tracks owing to bio-waste droppings from toilets, the Railways will soon introduce highly efficient anti-corrosion coated rail tracks in the countr...
14 Railway Projects in State on Chopping Block By Express News Service 24th November 2014 NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: The Railway Ministry plans to shelve projects worth over Rs 10,000 crore in Karnataka as part of a larger move to freeze non-starter schemes across the country. Altogther 160 such projects, including 47 in the four southern states worth nearly Rs 41,000 crore, will be affected. A majority of these were sanctioned when Lalu...

Saturday, November 22, 2014

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY BOARD No.ERB-I/2014/23/46 New Delhi, dated : 13.11.2014 ORDER Ministry of Railways decided to constitute one man committee headed by Sri E.Sridharan, former Managing Director, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to suggest a proper system and procedure to ensure proper accountability and transparency at the General Managers and other functionaries’ level for taking all commercial decisions, including...
Railway Board referred Running, Additional and Breakdown allowances to 7th Pay Commission for consideration… November 1, 2014 Railway Board has referred three allowances (viz. Running Allowance, Additional Allowance and Breakdown Allowance) to 7th Central Pay Commission for their consideration and recommendatio...
Railway officer gets jail for Rs 100 bribe in Madhya Pradesh P Naveen,TNN | Nov 21, 2014, BHOPAL: An officer of central railways posted in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh has been convicted by a CBI court for taking a bribe of Rs 100 from a gangman for marking him 'present' in the attendance register two decades ago....
Suresh Prabhu flies to Mumbai to fix railways By Yogesh Naik & Rajendra B Aklekar, Mumbai Mirror | Nov 22, 2014, ...

Friday, November 21, 2014

Bombay high court slams railways for blaming Mumbai mishap victim Shibu Thomas,TNN | Nov 21, 20...
Eurostar train breaks down in France with power failure Eurostar passengers say the train broke down at Lille after suffering a broken cable leaving them in darkness, unable to open door...
Suresh Prabhu puts high-speed rail corridors on fast track Nov 21, 2014 - MANISH ANAND ...

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Elected Central Office Bearers on 20th BGM of AILRSA : At Chithorgarh, Western Railway on 15 & 16 Nov 201...

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

New Delhi, November 10, 2014 New Railway Minister holds out promise ...
Nov 11 2014 : The Times of India (Bangalore) RAILWAYS - Soft-spoken mantri out, policy guru helms railway machine...
MANGALURU, November 11, 2014 Updated: November 11, 2014 11:15 IST Sadananda Gowda’s exit from Railways may hit projects Govind D. Belgaum...

Friday, November 7, 2014

Bank workers plan All India strike The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), a joint forum of five workmen unions and five officers’ associations has given a call to observe a one-day All India strike on November 12, 2014.&nbs...
Union cabinet rejig, expansion - DVS to lose railways portfolio? ...
November 7, 2014 The failure of the Indian imagination Gautam Bhati...

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Railway Minister Launches a Book “Art & Railways – A Bangalore Saga” Written by Railway Officers This is the First Book Published by National Rail Museum...
City’s seen 2,600 rail deaths in just 9 mths Nitasha Natu,TNN | Nov 5, 2014,...
6 November 2014  'Custodians' of India's vast rail network By Vikas Pandey BBC Monitor...

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

TRRRIIIMMM…….. TRRRIIIMMM…….. ALARM BELLS RINGING FOR US……..            MK Shaji, General Secretary, AILRSA, SCR. Dear Locomen,             This is probably one of the last chances for us, my dear loco running brother, to get up from the slumber and act.  The much awaited VII CPC...

Monday, November 3, 2014

  As part of efforts to translate into reality the ambitious vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to start bullet trains in India, the Railway Ministry has commissioned a study on a high speed railway line between New Delhi and Chennai, to be conducted by China's High Speed Rail company. Railway Board last week issued an order to conduct a feasibility study on a high speed Rail line between New Delhi and Chennai to the China...
Bold reforms in store in Rail Budget Nov 03, 2014 - MANISH ANAND ...

Saturday, November 1, 2014

CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL  ERNAKULAM BENCH Original Application No.962 of 2013             Tuesday, this the 21st day of October, 2014. CORAM: HON’BLE Mr. U.SARATHCHANDRAN, JUDICIAL MEMBER AILRSA & 2 others.                                                                                        ...
CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL      ERNAKULAM BENCH Original Application No.180/00272/2014                               Wednesday this the 1st October 2014. CORAM: HON’BLE Mr. U.SARATHCHANDRAN, JUDICIAL MEMBER K.S.Gopalakrishnan                                                                                         ...

Friday, October 31, 2014

MYSORE, October 31, 2014 Shifting of Tipu’s armoury soon R. Krishna Kumar Bangalore–Mysore track-doubling work to gain momen...
Nelamangala journey gets comfy with morning train By Sridhar Vivan, Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Oct 30, 2014,...
Kapurthala, October 31, 2014 First high speed train on Delhi-Agra sector on Nov...

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

New Delhi, October 29, 2014 Railway Union’s red flag to Board restructure plan PTI Expressing concern over the government’s move to restructure the Railway Board and separating policy making from operations, a Railwaymen’s body on Wednesday said the move would lead to “chaos”. “In the name of re-organisation, separating the policy making from operations, may lead to chaos,” National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NIFR) general...
National Council (Staff Side) Joint Consultative Machinery for central Government Employees 13-C, Ferozshah Road, New DelhI — 110001 E Mail : nc.jcm.np@gmaii.c...

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

CBI finds Rs 10 lakh in drainpipes of railway officer's house Oct 25, 2014,...
Pollution along rail tracks needs to be attended with utmost sincerity: NGT Last Updated: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - New Delhi: Anguished over the failure of a committee to even suggest measures for tackling the problem of human excreta and waste dumping along railway...
Bullet trains in India: pros and cons While the country seemed excited when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a diamond quadrilateral of bullet trains to connect the four major cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai in his venture called “Smart cities” project, critics have a lot to say. There are reasons to be happy about this project and there are reasons that drive us to ponder if this is the first priority of a nation with...
MADURAI, October 28, 2014 Loco-pilot stops train citing mental depression S. Sundar inShare A loco-pilot on Monday stopped an express train midway, near Tirunelveli, saying he was “depressed” as Southern Railway’s Madurai Division had not settled some of his grievance...
GUNTUR, October 28, 2014 Officials take pledge to end corruption Staff Reporter inShare Personnel of various Central and State Government departments undertook a pledge to combat corruption to mark the beginning of Vigilance Awareness Week from Monda...

Monday, October 27, 2014

AILRSA/SBC Divn/12/2014                                                   Dt: 16/10/2014 To               SHRI. ANIL KUMAR AGARWAL        ...
Railway officials in a fix over freeze on some promotions Srinand Jha, Hindustan Times  New Delhi, October 26, 20...
NEW DELHI, October 27, 2014 Learn about Indian Nobel laureates while on the go Jaideep Deo Bh...

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Goods Train hits another goods train in Latehar, disrupts rail movement. Letehar 26 Oct 2014. ...
Nitish seeks apology, compensation from Railway ministry PTI [ Updated 26 Oct 2014, 17:42:44...

Friday, October 24, 2014

3 railway staff accused of sexual harassment TNN | Oct 23, 2014 VADODARA: The Vadodara railway division of Western Railway (WR) has transferred three supervisors from its engineering section after receiving complaint of sexual harassment against the...
To  The Secretary, 7th central pay commission.  Hon. Sir/Madam, Our central organisation ALL INDIA LOCO RUNNING STAFF ASSOCIATION [AILRSA], representating the loco running staff of Indian Railway, submitted memorandom to you your kind honour. Loco running staff means the employees i.e. ASSISTANT LOCO PILOT, SHUNTING LOCO PILOT, LOCO PILOT GOODS, LOCO PILOT PASSANGER AND LOCO PILOT MAIL, who are appointed to work the...
Senior Railway Board official arrested by CBI on graft charges  New Delhi: A senior Railway Board official was caught red-handed on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly receiving Rs.5 lakh in bribe from a tour operator to facilitate special trains and additional coaches for tourist...

Thursday, October 23, 2014

China’s ‘Railway Development Fund’ to help ease CRC’s financial woes Beijing:  China’s newly established railway development fund might serve as an expedient measure to help finance the country’s railroad construction projects over the next two years and help ease financial pressure on the China Railway Corporation (CRC) as it is mired in heavy debt after it took over a portion of business from the former Ministry...

Sunday, October 19, 2014

BERLIN, October 19, 2014 Biggest German rail strike on busy autumn weekend inShare German rail travellers on Saturday faced delays and disruptions on one of autumn’s busiest travel weekends as the train drivers’ union began one of its largest strikes in recent year...

Friday, October 17, 2014

NEW DELHI, October 17, 2014 Contempt notice to Railway Board chief in New Delhi Mohammed Iqbal inShare The Delhi High Court has issued notice to Railway Board chairman Arunendra Kumar on a petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against him for failing to comply with its direction to appoint a committee for review of the Katra-Banihal section of railway line to Kashmi...

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Station masters decry overwork Anil Kumar Sastry To stage protest demonstration in Bangalore on Wednesday MANGALORE: Railway Station Masters, who work behind the scenes for smooth operation of trains, have now decided to come out in the open highlighting their grievances. Important among them is that they are being overwork without a weekly brea...

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Chennai-Mysore High Speed Rail May Not Reach Full Speed: Report By Express News Service     14th October 2014 06:01 AM BANGALORE: A preliminary inspection for the Chennai-Mysore High Speed Rail Link by a team consisting of railway authorities is said to have revealed that at present the trains will travel at a speed of 85 km per hou...
Railway brass under CBI lens for nod to rejected sleepers TNN | Oct 14, 2014, BHOPAL: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has initiated an inquiry against top officers of Indian railways for doling out 'special favours' to a Chhattisgarh company for allegedly supplying sub-standard and rejected concrete sleepers thus putting lives of commuters to ri...
First Pvt Cargo Train to Chug off Tomorrow By Express News Service Published: 14th October 2014&nbs...
China's fast track to high-speed rail exports 13 October 2014 Chris Lo In little over a decade China has progressed from a high-speed rail novice to the host of the world's largest high-speed network. Now the country is focussing on foreign markets, where lower costs and efficient construction are making its companies a match for the high-speed specialists of Europe and Japan....

Monday, October 13, 2014

COMMISSIONER OF RAILWAY SAFETY,SOUTHERN CIRCLE, BANGALORE CONDUCTS STATUTORY INSPECTION FOR THE NEWLY LAID DOUBLE LINE BETWEEN AJJAMPURA AND HOSADURGA ON BIRUR-SHIVANI-HOSADURGA SECTION...

Friday, October 10, 2014

London’s new ‘driverless’ Tube trains slammed by unions Added by RT on October 9, 2014.Saved under Syndicated F...

Thursday, October 9, 2014

BJP’s ‘make railways better’ portal a big hit Srinand Jha, Hindustan Times  New Delhi, October 09, 2014 Material for uniforms for Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel and other employees can be purchased from the National Textile Corporation. This would help break the government/suppliers nexus and also help revive the finances of the NTC mill...

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Austrian Co, ‘Schuhfried’ to conduct Psychological Tests on Loco Pilots to improve Safety  Mumbai: A spate of train accidents in the recent past have forced the Centre to bring in the most modern technology and mechanism to ensure passenger safet...
Taiwan Govt to opt PPP in High Speed Rail and other Infra Projects to prevent losses Plan to stop Taiwan’s high-speed rail going bust set for review.  Indian Infrastructure Cos. keen to evaluate options in PPP models in High Speed Rail and other Infrastructure proje...
Train drivers, pilots' strikes target German freight BERLIN Tue Oct 7, 2014...
New device to prevent collision of trains now — By FPJ Bureau,  October 08, 2014  NEW DELHI : Accidents caused by two trains running on the same track can be prevented through a light depending resistor instrument that will automatically slow them down to avoid the cras...
Mumbai, October 7, 2014 12 bogies of a goods train derails near Chiplun PTI Twelve wagons of a goods train derailed on Tuesday between Chiplun and Kamathe section of the Konkan Railway, disrupting train movement on the route...
Railway bending rules, standards for PM Modi's plan Srinand Jha, Hindustan Times  New Delhi, October 08, 2014 In its zeal to implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet scheme of increasing speeds of passenger trains, the railways is bending the railways design and standards organisation (RDSO)-established standards on passenger safet...
Column: Reforming Railways Raghu Dayal | Published: Oct 08 2014,   Soon after assuming office in 2004, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh emphasised on restructuring the bureaucracy to improve the country’s governance. He set up an administrative reforms commission and remained content ever after. The Modi government, too, has opted to get an MRI for the Railways, knowing well that no other public institution in the country has been...

Monday, October 6, 2014

ALL INDIA LOCO RUNNING STAFF ASSOCIATION 20th All India Conferen...
Unions wary of Chinese participation in Railways modernisation and Bullet Train projects Chennai (MAS): Last month, India and China signed MoUs and exchanged documents on strengthening Indian Railways and last week, Union railway minister Sadananda Gowda confirmed, during his visit to Chennai, that railways was in track with China on technology development and this had created a trigger among various railway trade unions...
NEW DELHI, October 6, 2014 Lucknow Mail derails in Ghaziabad Vishal K...

Saturday, October 4, 2014

32 killed, 50 injured in stampede during Dussehra celebrations in Patna's Gandhi Maidan Faizan Ahmad,TNN | Oct 3, 2014, PATNA: 32 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a stampede near Gandhi Maidan on Friday evening after the Ravan vadh programme which was a part of Dussehra celebratio...
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, October 4, 2014 SHRC: 3 night shifts in a row for loco pilots harmful Special Correspond...
Loco Pilot Night Duty: SHRC Cautions Railways By Express News Service...
Locopilot seeks rest, gets paycut DC CORRESPONDENT | October 04, 2014,...
Gorakhpur train accident blamed on driver fatigue Mahendra K Singh,TNN | Oct 2, 2014, NEW DELHI: Tuesday's train accident near Gorakhpur that killed 12 passengers and left 45 injured has once again highlighted the shortage of loco pilots in railways and the heavy workload being shared by the ones on du...

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Collision Between Passenger Trains in Uttar Pradesh; 6 Killed, 40 Injured All India | Reported by Niha Masih | Updated: October 01, 2014...
Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda suspends station master for dirty lavatories Tuesday, 30 September 2014 - 10:23pm IST | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: PTI ...
BANGALORE, October 1, 2014 Brindavan Express turns 50 today Renuka Phadnis inShare It was on this day in 1964 that the Brindavan Express began its journey for the first time between Bangalore and Chenna...
Oct 01 2014 : The Times of India (Bangalore) Long innings: Brindavan Exp chugs past 50th year ...

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

High-speed train feasibility study after Dasara New Delhi, Sep 29, 2014, DH...

Monday, September 29, 2014

Japan’s bullet train hits half century September 29, 2014 Less than two decades after a bitter World War II defeat that left much of the country in ruins, Japan was at the cutting edge with its sleek, airplane-shaped "shinkansen" that glided over great distances of newly-laid trac...
World’s Fastest Train Plan Boosted as Risk Drops: Japan Credit By Chris Cooper September 28, 2...
Rail restructuring to begin soon: Bibek Debroy Srinand Jha , Hindustan Times  New Delhi, September 29, 2014 Noted economist Bibek Debroy – chairman of the newly constituted committee on rail restructuring – indicated on Saturday that the public transporter’s organisational revamp exercise will begin in the next few month...

Saturday, September 27, 2014

BANGALORE, September 27, 2014 Stone-pelting, a challenge for Railways Renuka Phad...
Loco Pilots demand implementation of Railway Board directives on Signal Passing at Danger  Chennai (MAS): More than 200 loco pilots affiliated to the All India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA) staged a protest near Southern Railway headquarters demanding the railways implement safety regulations and guidelines to prevent accidents caused by human erro...

Friday, September 26, 2014

Railways FDI in operations too Sep 26, 2014 - MANISH ANAND | New De...
Panel set up to restructure Railway Board TNN | Sep 26, 2014, NAGPUR: The Railway Board has constituted a committee to take forward the budget announcements made by minister of railways regarding mobilization of resources for major railway projects and restructuring of railway ministry and Railway Boa...

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Cash-starved Indian Railways sets up departmental panel to speed up FDI By TNN | 22 Sep, 20...
Indigenous Ultra Sonic Flaw Detector Automation System for inspecting tracks on the move  Chennai (MAS):  In a country where railway tracks run over thousands of kilometres, the Railways continues to use an outdated technology for inspecting the...
Arvind Panagariya likely to head Committee for restructuring Railway Bo...

Monday, September 22, 2014

           MEMORANDUM TO PRIME MINISTER AND RAILWAY MINISTER To                                                         ...

Saturday, September 20, 2014

New railways policy raises brows as board chairman retains “absolute” powers in appointment Mahendra Singh,TNN | Sep 20, 2...

Friday, September 19, 2014

CHINA HELPS TO RUN BULLET TRAINS:   New Delhi: Close on the heels of India joining hands with Japan for the first bullet train project, another pact was signed on Thursday with China to take up feasibility study on a stretch to be identified later. Also, China will help railways to run a semi-high speed train (160 kmph) on the Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysore stretc...
MANGALORE, September 19, 2014 Yelahanka–Gooty railway line electrification likely by March Anil Kumar Sas...
GULBARGA, September 18, 2014 Four high-speed rail corridors planned T.V. Sivanandan Memorandum of understanding to be signed with Ch...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Fire Two committees formed for fire safety audit in Railways India Security World, - September 15, 2014 The Southern Railway has informed the Madras High Court that it has constituted two committees for a comprehensive fire safety audit on railways. ...

Monday, September 15, 2014

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