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  Indian Railways News  / Mukul to pursue Mamata's Vision 2020 for railways

New Delhi  : Railway Minister Mukul Roy Thursday said he would take his Trinamool party chief Mamata Banerjee's Vision 2020 forward and deepen the agenda of inclusive growth."We will take the Vision 2020 forward," Roy said while replying to a debate on the demand for grants of the ministry 2012-13, which were passed by the Lok Sabha Thursday.Roy replaced as railway minister his party's Dinesh Trivedi, who had to resign after his move to hike fares angered Mamata Banerjee.Roy listed safety of the network, reduction in number of accidents and elimination of unmanned level crossings in a time-bound manner as priority areas. He also mentioned pursuing the public private partnership model for developmental projects.

  Indian Railways News  / Public throng to see Red Ribbon Express

KOCHI: Public from different walks of life thronged the sixth platform of Ernakulam South railway station on Sunday to visit the Red Ribbon Express.

The train that chugged into the district with six compartments aims at creating awareness on AIDS. It will leave for Alappuzha on Tuesday.

The train was received by a delegation of people's representatives, health officials and health volunteers.

While addressing the gathering after inaugurating the exhibition, union minister of state for food and civil supplies K V Thomas said people affected with AIDS are usually alienated from society and this should change. The exhibition that received good public response focused on awareness on the means and methods to control the spread of the disease, treating HIV-infected with dignity and the primary health services available.

Discussions and interactions between the public and the health officials were also held.

The exhibition included various training sessions for those working in the health sector. Blood group determination camps were also part of the exhibition.

P N Sreenivasan, district health officer said the programme received a good response and about 3,100 people visited on Sunday.

  Indian Railways News  / Central Railway implements new e-ticket refund system

Central Railway has implemented a new, Advance Coaching Refund System (ACRS) recently to reduce the time taken for e-Tickets refunds.

According to this system, all the e-ticket data is uploaded directly from IRCTC server to ACRS directly and dealt by the refund section in Chief Commercial Manager's Office, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai.

The cases, in which the refund amount is sanctioned, it is transferred to IRCTC through pay order for payment to the party and pay orders are made manually. This has reduced the transaction time from 30 days to 15 days. All e-tickets refund cases will be disposed off within a period of 15 days.

Out of total refund cases, 60 percent are of e-tickets at present, which constitutes about 2500 cases per month. CR is one of the few railways where Advance Coaching Refund System is implemented, a release from Nagpur division of Central Railway said.

  Indian Railways News  / Thirty five new summer special trains

NEW DELHI: For the convenience of passengers and to clear extra rush during summer, the railways have decided to run 35 pairs of special trains with a total of 1694 trips on the Northern Railway zone.This is besides the introduction of 20 new trains since July last year running a total of 752 trips - 2446 trips in all during the period. To cater to the increasing volume, the railways have also planned to augment the passenger carrying capacity by 94 coaches on permanent/temporary basis. A total of 96 extra coaches have been attached for the season for enhanced passenger volume.

  Indian Railways News  / Over 30,000 visit Red Ribbon Express

More than 30,000 persons visited Red Ribbon Express on the first day of its halt at Sivaganga on Monday.It was given a rousing reception by the people of all walks of life when it arrived from Ramanathapuram to Sivaganga for disseminating information and clearing misconception on HIV/AIDS.Collector V. Rajaraman inaugurated the exhibition at a ceremony held at the railway station, where it will be halted for two days so as to enable the people to visit the express, which has everything to create an awareness among the people, particularly targeted groups on HIV/AIDS.Accompanied by elected representatives and officials, he visited all eight bogies of the express. First four compartments have been used for exhibition.A large number of people, including school and college students, visited the Red Ribbon Express.They waited in queues to get into the train. There were explained by the doctors and volunteers. There were facilities to undergo general check up of patients at the train. Blood donation was also organised on the occasion.Mr. Rajaraman said more than 30,000 visitors had visited the express on the first day on Monday.The number would increase on Tuesday. Thirty-eight unit of blood was also collected from interested donors.