Category: What’s New

Reportedly, Indian Railways is planning to prepare a centralised heat map for its 68,000 km plus network using big data and artificial intelligence.

In order to increase safety, Indian Railways and Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited are establishing real-time communication systems to minimise the damage caused by train derailments.

In another important development, digital payments company, Paytm, will be offering digital ticketing services to the consumers via Automatic Ticket Vending Machine (ATVM) across all railway stations in India, in collaboration with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation.

In another important development, Kavach, an indigenously developed automatic train protection system, has successfully passed the anti-collision test in Hyderabad.

Indian Railways (IR) is planning to add radio entertainment to the set of facilities offered by Shatabdi and Vande Bharat trains.

In another development, Manipur has been successfully connected by freight train.

Reportedly, RailTel is planning on creating edge data centres at railways premises across 102 locations (especially Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns).

Indian Railways (IR) has discontinued the ‘special’ tag for mail and express trains and reverted to pre-pandemic ticket prices.

The first ever pod hotel of Indian Railways was inaugurated at Mumbai Central railway station on November 17, 2021.

Reportedly, nearly 3.2 passenger name records (PNR) (against which 5.2 million passengers had bookings) which were in the wait status were auto-cancelled between April 2021 to September 2021.

Northeast Frontier Railway’s Himalayan railway (DHR) has partnered with digital payment platform Paytm.

Chennai-Mysore-Chennai shatabdi express becomes the first Southern Railway (SR) train to be certified by the Integrated Management Systems (IMS).

Alstom, a French multi-national firm, has conducted a meeting with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation and Meghna Servo Drives Private Limited.

IR has been burdened with a bill of Rs 0.4 billion approximately from the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) for operating Kisan rails for a year at a 50 per cent rebate

In a bid to expedite the operation of goods trains and enable transportation of empty wagons to the loading point in the least possible time, IR has successfully operated two long haul freight trains Trishul and Garuda for the first time over South Central Railways.

Reportedly, the strategic sale of CONCOR will not be conducted in the current fiscal (2021-22) given that the railway land usage policy is yet to be finalised.