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Unified Train Operation Safety Norms: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday said that for signal failure, a unified train operation safety norm applicable to all railway zones will be issued in the next 10 days. Vaishnaw said the ministry initiated the process of bringing uniformity in subsidiary rules (SR) of all 17 railway zones after…
Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the journey of Kavach started in 2014-15. (File) Kavach has, so far, been deployed on 1,465 route km and 144 locomotives (including EMU rakes) on South Central Railway. Tenders have been invited for Delhi-Chennai and Mumbai-Chennai sections along with all automatic signalling sections, Ashwini Vaishnaw said With approvals in place,…
In the period 2004-14, 904 people were killed in train accidents as against 748 in 2014-24. (PTI File) In a statement in the Rajya Sabha, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said consequential train accidents during the period 2004-14 were 1,711 — average 171 per annum — which have declined to 678 during the period 2014-24 —…
The Indian Railways has been working to make changes in the sleeper and above category coaches to make the people’s journey comfortable. While it introduced additional mattresses for side lower berth in some trains, it also ran a pilot project for baby berth seats. As a pilot, the Indian Railways provided two baby berths in…
Hitting out at the previous Congress governments, an unusually combative Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday accused the opposition party of amplifying small incidents on the railway network through its “social media troll army” to create fear among its two crore-plus passengers. Replying to a debate on the Demand for Grants of Railways, Vaishnaw asserted…
Speaking in Lok Sabha, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that after years of trials, the Automatic Train Protection System is now ready to be implemented on a large scale. Source link [ad_3]
New Delhi: Rs 1,112.57 crore has been allocated for the installation of the Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system Kavach in the financial year of 2024-25, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Responding to the questions raised by DMK MPs Kanimozhi Karunanidhi and Rani Srikumar on the…
Indian Railways has around 12 lakh employees and on average, it runs more than 8,000 trains carrying 2.4 crore daily passengers. The recent train accident involving the Kanchanjunga Express and a goods train is an apt example of how strained staff may lead to mishaps. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s photo-op with Indian Railways loco-pilots…