It has come to the knowledge of Railway administration that some websites have published a notice claiming that the Indian Railways Protection Force (RPF) is recruiting RPF personnel for Constable Recruitment Examination, 2022. After a fact check by Railways and Press Information Bureau it has been found to be completely fake and no such recruitment…
In context of the recent surge in Covid cases across the country triggered by the Omicron variant, Ashwini Vaishnaw, union minister of the Railways recently directed the senior officials of various railway zones and divisions to facilitate use of railway hospitals and health infrastructure for general public. VK Tripathi, chairman and chief executive officer, Railway…
Keeping in view of the demands from the travelling public, it has been decided to extend the services of 08439/08440 Puri-Patna-Puri Special up to last week of December, 2021. 08439 Puri-Patna Special leaving Puri at 1455hrs on every Saturday will run up to 25 December, 2021. In the return direction, 08440 Patna-Puri Special leaving from…
As part of Indian Railways’ efforts to normalise passenger services in a phased manner to the pre-Covid levels of service, the Railways Passenger Reservation System (PRS) will be shut down for six hours during the lean business hours of the night for next seven days. This is to enable upgradation of the system data, updating…
Ministry of Railways has decided to change the mail/express/passenger and holiday special train services to regular train services in phased manner and revert to pre-pandemic ticket fares as Covid caseload in the country come down. After this decision, around 76 mail/express and holiday special trains and 14 passenger trains originating and terminating in East Coast…
Union railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw held a high-level review meeting with South Eastern Railway (SER) and the East Coast Railway (ECoR) officials at Jharsuguda in Odisha on Monday. Vaishnaw gave importance to safety issues and suggested several measures to improve passenger amenities over the SER’s jurisdiction. Issues pertaining to infrastructural development works of the railways…
Now filmmakers can apply through the FFO’s web portal (www.ffo.gov.in) for filming permissions from the Ministry of Railways. In order to ease filming in the Railways, Film Facilitation Office (FFO) has integrated National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and Ministry of Railways to create a single window mechanism to make the permission for filming across Railways’…
East Coast Railway (ECoR) general manager Vidya Bhushan inaugurated the Kalinga Rail Heritage Museum at Chandrasekharpur, here on Saturday. Also present were additional general manager Sudhir Kumar, divisional railway manager of Khurda Road Rinkesh Roy and other principal heads of departments of ECoR. Indian Railways and East Coast Railway in particular has a rich and…
For the festive season, Indian Railways has ensured special arrangements for the passengers travelling to their native places to celebrate festivals with their families. For the convenience of rail travellers and to clear extra rush of passengers during this festive season, Indian Railways is running 668 trips of 110 Special trains from Durga Puja till…
The union cabinet in its meeting held on Wednesday has approved Payment of Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) to all eligible non-gazetted railway employees (excluding RPF/RPSF personnel). It will be equivalent to 78 days wages for the Financial Year 2020-21. About 11.56 lakh non-gazetted Railway employees excluding RPF personnel will be the beneficiaries. The maximum amount…
