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Wednesday, 11 March 2015

21:10

Important Facts of Indian Railway

Following are the some of the important Indian Railway Facts

  • The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half times the distance to moon
  • The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853
  • IR has about 63,028 route kms. of track
  • IR employs about 1.55 million people
  • It carries over 13 million passengers & 1.3 million tones of freight everyday
  • It runs about 14,300 trains daily
  • IR has about 7,000 railway stations
  • The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length Nehru Setu on Sone River is the longest Railway bridge
  • 42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence
  • Electric Locomotives are manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, ChittaranjanCoaches are manufactured at ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru
  • The national Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977
  • People Employed in Indian Railway are about 1.6 million
  • Stations across State Lines are Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat) and Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)
  • Classes of travel on Indian Railway: Ist AC, 2nd AC, 3rd AC, AC Chair Car IInd sleeper & IInd ordinary
  • Railway Station with all the Three Gauges is Siliguri Railway Station
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Wednesday, 6 August 2014

21:06

IRCTC writes Letter to Railway Board on penalty

IRCTC writes Letter to Railway Board on penalty

New Delhi: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has written a letter to the Railway Board a day after it was penalised with Rs.1.00 Lakh penalty after a cockroach was found in food served aboard the Kolkata Rajdhani last month.

In its letter, the IRCTC stated that the railways should not treat them as licensee agency and it was the railways, which do not keep its coaches clean. The agency has cited the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the Indian Railways (IR) and IRCTC on January 17, 2007.

Railway authorities had cracked the whip by slapping heavy fines totalling Rs 11.5 lakh on nine caterers, including IRCTC, for serving “poor quality” food in trains.

A senior official of IRCTC from its headquarters told: “We have written a letter to the Railway Board in which we have told them not to treat us as licensee agency as IRCTC is very much part of the Indian Railways and it was clearly mentioned in the MoU signed. As per the MoU, the IRCTC is a special purpose vehicle (SPV) made by the Ministry of Railways.”

A senior official of railway board in New Delhi said it has received the letter and within one month they will send a reply to the IRCTC.

Besides the IRCTC, RK Associates, Sunshine Caterers, Satyam Caterers and Brindavan Food Products were among those penalised. On July 20, a woman passenger on the Kolkata Rajdhani claimed she found a cockroach in her meal served at Mughalsarai.

About the other details mentioned in the letter, the official added: “We have also mentioned that the cleaning is not done by the IRCTC but the railways. The IRCTC is an expert in catering. It was railways, which do not keep the coaches clean. The IRCTC has demanded that at the time of cleaning the coaches, our officials should be allowed to be present to monitor the cleaning process.”
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