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south central railway
06:08
Problems Solved with Customer Friendly Packaging and Delivery Door -Door Facility
Problems Solved with Customer Friendly Packaging and Delivery Door -Door Facility
South Central Railway has introduced yet another first of its kind customer friendly service with Parcel Packing and Allied Services at the door step of the customers who want to transport their belongings.
Earlier, there was no official packing service and prescribed rates at these two major parcel handling stations. Customers used to hire the services of private individuals and pay the parcel charges depending upon the demand at the parcel office area. Now, South Central Railway has come up with the initiative of having one single authorised agency for streamlining and providing standardized service to the customers.
Accordingly, these value-added services have been introduced at Secunderabad and Hyderabad Railway Stations to facilitate the customers. At both these stations an agency has been fixed with an earmarked space of 150 square feet.
Sri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, SCR complemented the Secunderabad Divisional authorities for the customer friendly initiative in parcel packing. He advised them for extension of such facility to all important Railway stations in a phased manner.
The Agency will provide comprehensive solutions to the customers who want to send their parcels on Railways. The agency will provide man power and packing material to meet the requirements of customers at these two Parcel offices. Other optional and value-added services include facility for packing of other Luggage / Parcels and Door-to-Door pick-up and drop facility.
This service is particularly helpful to people who want to transport their two wheelers by trains. Now, not only can they get the professional packing done but also have their vehicle picked-up from their home itself for transportation by railways just by dialing Mobile No.9177550577. The same facility is also applicable to all the parcel consignments.
The main advantages of this contract are:
1) The problem of overcharging will not arise.
2) 2-wheeler packing will be done away with proper billing will be done.
3) More professional and customer friendly interface.
4) Door to Door delivery will give lot of convenience to the customer.
5) An additional earning of 5.6 lakh per annum.
Source:South Central Railway
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Overcrowding
07:20
Chennai Metro:Red cushions with twice the rate of Normal Class fare
Chennai Metro:Red cushions with twice the rate of Normal Class fare
‘Regular coaches have enough space’
Two years after the launch of the first service of Chennai Metro Rail, there are barely any takers for the special class coaches on the trains.
The fares for the special class coaches, equipped with red cushions, are twice that of the normal class.
The fares range from ₹10-₹60 for the normal class and ₹20- ₹120 for the special class.
‘Trains not crowded’
Commuters say there is no need to use the special class as the regular coaches themselves are comfortable as the trains are not crowded.
Nirmala Rajagopal, a 30-year-old resident of Anna Nagar, says that while travelling from Anna Nagar Tower station to Little Mount, she pays ₹45 for a regular ticket but always gets a seat. “Where is the need to pay double that price for nothing? I have no clue why they came up this idea,” she adds.
No other Metro Rail system in the country has a special class coach on their trains.
Even Delhi, which recorded a cumulative ridership of one billion as of March this year, does not have a special class.
Chennai Metro Rail has only about 12,000-14,000 people travelling through its three stretches on a daily basis.
Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) officials say they do not have a proper estimate of how many use the special class, but admit that not many do.
For the special class, the tokens are in red and the smart cards are gold in colour (as opposed to the blue tokens and regular smart cards for the normal class).
“We carry out surprise checks to see if people buy regular tickets and travel by special class. So far, we haven’t found anyone doing it,” an official says.
Sources with the Chennai Metro Rail project say the special class coaches were introduced anticipating crowds in the future.
Source:The Hindu
Friday, 7 July 2017
RITES
18:21
Kolkata: Crowd control plan for Esplanade Metro station
Kolkata: Crowd control plan for Esplanade Metro station
KOLKATA: Once the Metro network in the city gets completed, Esplanade will be the most important station with the three corridors — North-South, East-West and Joka-BBD Bag — intersecting there. At peak hour, the passenger count is estimated to be nearly one lakh and the transport department has engaged RITES to chalk out a comprehensive commuter dispersal system to manage the crowd.
To facilitate a seamless changeover among a wide array of transit modes — Metro, buses, cabs and trams — RITES will develop a master plan, including ingress and egress plans, commuter dispersal system and underground connectivity to major passenger-generating spots like Eden Gardens, Netaji indoor stadium, high court and major ferry ghats.
When operational, Esplanade will become India's second three-line interchange after Delhi's Kashmere Gate station. The existing line at Esplanade station, built underneath Jawaharlal Nehru Road, will be connected to the new structure via a subway. Unless Metro alignments are physically integrated, the seamless interface will not be possible. So there will be an integrated terminal structure, which will be in sync with the structural ethos of Esplanade. The Howrah station complex, for instance, has been an architectural marvel for more than 100 years, even though it has been extended later on. "We are planning similar architectural designs for Esplanade terminal," said a senior transport department officer.
"The study is at the final stage. We expect this to be the most comprehensive commuter dispersal study integrating all major modes of transports," said Narayan Swarup Nigam, nodal officer of state for Metro projects.
This study assumes significance since Esplanade bus terminus will shortly be done away with because of the apex court order. But with the peak-hour volume of passengers, the Metro alignment will need some permanent parking slots for buses and cabs. This is why RITES is carrying out parking surveys at 30 locations, pedestrian movement count at 40 locations and on street parking on 750m on either side of the survey location.
Since over-ground parking of buses will be disallowed, the transport department is planning a basement parking, which will be constructed below Curzon Park.
RITES will also prepare a detailed project report (DPR) of an underground pedestrian way from Espl-anade station to Calcutta high court, Eden Gardens and Babughat.
The World Bank has also stepped in and commissioned a set of studies for route rationalization of buses vis-a-vis ferry and expanding of the Metro network, a common ticketing system, terminal points within and outside the city and rejuvenation of Esplanade as a walkers' paradise
Source:TOI
Thursday, 5 January 2017
south central railway
22:00
PLATFORM TICKET AT SECUNDERABAD RAILWAY STATION INCREASED TO 20/- FROM 10/-
PLATFORM TICKET AT SECUNDERABAD RAILWAY STATION INCREASED TO 20/- FROM 10/-
No.668/2016-17
05-01-2017
Secunderabad
Temporary Increase in Platform Ticket Rate at Secunderabad Station to Regulate Non Travelling Public
In view of the ensuing Sankranti festival additional passenger traffic coinciding with the Sabarimalai traffic, it is expected that Secunderabad Railway Station will witness huge additional foot falls of rail travelers as well as accompanying non-travelers, leading to huge crowd on the platforms during the period.
With a view to regulate the flow of people who enter the platforms and avoid inconvenience to the travelling public by means of ensuring decongestion of platforms, the rate of Platform Ticket at Secunderabad Railway Station will be enhanced from present Rs. 10/- to Rs. 20/- for a period of seven days i.e. from 10th January to 16thJanuary, 2017.
Rail users may kindly note the same and extend cooperation.
Source:South Central Railway
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Overcrowding
20:22
BMRCL :Metro set to increase frequency
BMRCL :Metro set to increase frequency
Your wait for a metro train will come down as Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. is set to increase the frequency on the Purple Line by reducing the gap between trains from 8 minutes to 6 minutes from this week. The Purple Line connects Baiyappanahalli to Mysuru Road.
Hundreds of commuters have been complaining about trains being crowded due to lesser frequency.
The Purple Line was inaugurated on April 30. The number of daily commuters is around 1.15 lakh, which works out to an average of 777 passengers per train. Almost immediately after the launch of the entire line, BMRCL had increased the frequency of trains by reducing the gap from 10 minutes to 8 minutes. However, due to technical issues, the time between trains could not be decreased further. BMRCL expects the average number of commuters to touch 1.5 lakh passengers per day.
Source:The Hindu
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Overcrowding
16:41
Delhi Metro to get 17 new Eight-Coach Trains to Check Overcrowding
Delhi Metro to get 17 new Eight-Coach Trains to Check Overcrowding
DMRC is procuring 17 new eight coach trains from Bombardier and converting 61 six coach trains into eight coach ones
New Delhi: Metro users for whom jostling for space to stand has become a part of their daily routine have something to cheer about as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has announced its plan to procure 17 new eight-coach trains, as well as convert 61 six-coach trains into eight-coach trains to provide more convenience to the commuters on the Red, Blue and Yellow lines of its network. A total of 258 new coaches are being procured.
Bombardier’s facility in Savli, Gujarat will assemble 162 coaches while 96 new coaches will be procured from state-run BEML’s plant in Bengaluru, an official of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said.
The new-formation trains aims to ease the pressure on the busy Red, Yellow and Blue lines of the Delhi Metro network.
As of Monday, only Yellow and Blue lines have eight-coach trains, with 33 eight-coach trains operating on the Yellow line and 25 eight-coach trains operating on the Blue line. The Red line currently only uses four and six coach trains.
In total, 258 new coaches are being procured, of which 162 coaches will be assembled at Bombardier’s facility in Savli in Gujarat and 96 new coaches will be procured from BEML’s plant in Bengaluru.
The coaches are expected to start arriving in the city from the third quarter of 2016 and all coaches will be delivered by early 2018, informed the Delhi Metro.
They added that steps are being carried taken to make journey more comfortable for the 25 lakh people who travel on the network, with the Yellow and Blue lines being the busiest.
The new trains, said a Delhi Metro spokesperson, are primarily targeted at the busy Red (Rithala to Dilshad Garden), Yellow (Jahangirpuri to HUDA city centre) and Blue (Dwarka sector 21 to Noida/Vaishali) lines. The average ridership for the Red line is 3.56 lakh, 8.82 lakh for the Yellow line and 9.56 lakh for the Blue line. The new coaches will start arriving in Delhi from the third quarter of 2016 and all coaches will be delivered by early 2018.
The new additions of trains and coaches are expected to help further control the issue of overcrowding in metro trains plying on busy corridors.Currently, Delhi Metro carries approximately 25 lakh people everyday on its network with the Yellow and the Blue lines being the busiest corridors.
The new trains will increase the number of DMRC’s existing fleet of Bombardier’s ” Movia” coaches from 614 to 776 and make it one of the largest metro fleet in the world, Bombardier said in a statement. The order is valued at approximately Rs 1,500 crore, it added. Meanwhile, the ridership of Delhi Metro touched 30 lakh for the first time last month.
Chennai Metro Rail Operated by Young Woman Pilot on Inauguration Day
With a Woman behind Controls, Chennai Metro Rail makes Maiden Journey
Chennai (MAS): It was 12.02 pm on Monday and barely moments remained before Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was to flag off the city’s first Metro train service from Alandur to Koyambedu.
Up on platform two, where the train that would make the first journey lay wait, there was an unusual crowd near the motorman’s cabin. Something curious had caught the eyes of the onlookers. As this scribe took a closer look, it became known that the people were peeking in to see how the control room looked like. But more than that, they were interested in the person who was going to be operating those controls, once the green signal from Secretariat came.
A young woman was behind the wheel today when the Chennai Metro rolled out for the first time on a signal from Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
At 12.16 pm, 27-year-old A Preethi, wrote her name into the city’s modern history when she operated the first Metro train service. “In the morning before she left for work, she told me how happy and excited she was to be given this opportunity. But she was not nervous. She kept telling that it was no big achievement,” said Preethi’s mother, A Shanti.
Preethi’s mother and her four-year-old niece were a part of the journey, taking in the experience, as the rakes whizzed out of Alandur amid huge applause from the occupants, and sped into Ekkattuthangal station. “Since her childhood, she had always shown a keen interest in driving vehicles. Be it a two-wheeler or four-wheeler, she has driven it all and now she is operating a train,” said the proud mother.
As early as 9 am, Alandur station was abuzz with activity as camera crews had begun to make their presence felt. By noon, a sizeable crowd – majority of them AIADMK party workers – had arrived to make the inaugural run successful.
Since the first passenger service was only scheduled at 1.30 pm, members of the public who had luckily gained entry by then were busy clicking selfies and taking group shots. Wide open smiles adorned every single one of their faces because those images were going to go up on Facebook, Instagram and other social networking sites.
Curiosity was sky high. People could hardly resist taking a peek into the air-conditioned rakes just to get a feel and touch of it before the initial run. As soon as the service doors opened, people swarmed in to take their seats and in the blink of an eye, the train was at full capacity and the city on the cusp of realising a major achievement.
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Suburban service
10:41
Bombay HC suggests ways to cut Overcrowding, seeks Casualty figures
Bombay HC suggests ways to cut Overcrowding, seeks Casualty figures
Can’t Mumbaikars be disciplined to lessen overcrowding in trains? Bombay High Court asks railways to experiment
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked the Railways to furnish a list of the number of people who die everyday after falling from overcrowded suburban trains. Hearing a PIL seeking reservation of seats in local trains for senior citizens, a division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice V L Achliya asked the Railways to implement measures to reduce overcrowding.
The court was informed that though a compartment has a capacity of 86 commuters, there are over 500 persons in each coach during peak hours. The judges suggested that authorities could coordinate and work towards implementing staggered work hours for staff, especially in government offices. “Why does it have to be 9am and 5pm? Can some of the departments start work at 11am? Can some offices work on weekends and have holidays on weekdays?” asked the judges. “It shouldn’t be so that people have to use might and force to be able to enter trains during peak hours. Everyone should feel the comfort; there should be relief,” they said.
Can overcrowding in Mumbai suburban trains be reduced by disciplining citizens? Will this problem be solved if a reputed management institute does a detailed study? These are the questions the Bombay high court posed to the railways on Wednesday and directed it to experiment how proper crowd management can be done to ensure that citizens travel easily during peak hours. The court also asked if the crowd could be disciplined, by posting guards who will only allow a specific number of commuters to get into trains. Additional solicitor-general Anil Singh said, “Even if trains are late by a few minutes there are problems. In Mumbai, it would be next to impossible to restrict entry as every passenger wants to get inside the train.” The court asked if double decker trains could be deployed on suburban routes.
“Can the crowd be disciplined? For example, at one station you allow entry of a certain number of passengers only… will this work?” the court asked. Additional solicitor general Anil Singh replied, “In Mumbai, it’s next to impossible. Every passenger standing on the platform wants to enter the train which comes before him to reach his/her office on time.”
The bench then suggested change in office timings, asking whether the 9am to 5pm routine can be done away with. “What if some department begins work after 11am? Can some office work on weekdays and have holiday on weekends? The Dadar market is closed on Mondays. Can similar options be worked out? Would an integrated study by the state, railways, police and other partners (ie private sector) help ease overcrowding?” asked justice Patil.
The court also suggested that the railways consider having one coach reserved for senior citizens. Around 38,000 senior citizens travel daily on suburban trains. The railways has, after court orders, reserved 14 seats in a compartment for the elderly.
Advocate Suresh Kumar informed the court, “Awareness among travellers will be created to ensure that senior citizens are allowed to sit on the seats reserved for them. As earlier only a small area was reserved for the disabled but over time, after nine-coach trains gave way to 12-coach ones, the reservation increased. The same can be done for senior citizens once we get 15-coach trains.”
The bench, however, going back to its original issue of overcrowding, said, “During peak hours, can a senior citizen enter the compartment? If not, then how can s/he even be able to reach to his/her seat?”
“Have you tried sideway seating, like in Metro coaches? It allows more passengers to stand. Don’t be afraid to experiment because you might fail,” the judges added.
The court has given the railways time till June 30 to get back to it on the suggestions made.
The bench gave these ideas while hearing a public interest litigation after the court had taken suo moto cognisance of a letter written by a senior citizen, AB Thakkar, in 2009. Thakkar had said entering a jam-packed train during peak hours was a nightmarish experience for the elderly.
Around 4,000 people die every year on Central Railway, while around 3,500 perish on the Western Railway. Central Railway runs 1,600 services daily.
The PIL had claimed over 38,000 senior citizens travel daily on suburban trains. The railways said it had increased seats reserved for senior citizens from seven, to 14. The court asked the railways to consider if one compartment could be reserved for senior citizens in each train. “During peak hours it is impossible to get into a compartment, let alone being able to reach a reserved seat,” the court observed. “Awareness programmes should be conducted among passengers so that they don’t occupy seats reserved for senior citizens,” added the HC. The court has scheduled the next hearing of the case on June 30.
