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VIRUDHUNAGAR: With the Madurai railway division extending Karaikudi-Manamadurai-Karaikudi passenger till Virudhunagar via Aruppukottai, the long-standing demand for rail connectivity in the section has finally been met. The extended passenger train was formally inaugurated at Virudhunagar junction on Saturday morning.Viruthunagar - Manamadurai section was closed for broad-gauge conversion work in 2008 and the people in the region were stressing for the speedy completion of the works as the work proceeded at snail pace.After five years, the section was ready for train operation and the section was inaugurated for train operation in the presence of Union minister of state for civil aviation K C Venugopal on July 14. The recently flagged off Puducherry - Kanyakumari Weekly Express was the sole train plying through this section. As the local people were demanding more train services, the division has now extended Karaikudi-Manamadurai DEMU passenger till Virudhunagar.The extended passenger service, train number 76837 Karaikkudi-Virudunagar passenger (except Saturdays) will leave Karaikkudi at 6.15pm and arrive Manamadurai at 7.35pm to leave Manamadurai at 7.45pm and will reach Virudunagar at 9.45pm. Meanwhile, train number 76838 Virudunagar-Karaikkudi passenger (except Sundays) will leave Virudunagar at 6am, arrive Manamadurai at 7.40am to leave Manamadurai at 7.50am and will reach Karaikkudi at 9.35am. The train will stop at Devakottai road, Kallal, Panangudi, Sivaganga, Melakonnakulam, Manamadurai, Narikkudi, Tiruchchuli and Aruppukkottai.

Virudhunagar MP, Manick Tagore flagged off the train in the presence of divisional railway manager, A K Rastogi and Additional DRM, V Ajithkumar and other railway officials. A Malairajan, a member of the Consumer Forum in Aruppukottai welcomed regular train service on the stretch after five years. "The train timings are very beneficial for the office-goers. We urge the railway authorities to extend this train up to Senkottai so that many more benefitted," he said.

5800 People Penalised for Littering, Spitting etc., on Railway Premises During August, 2013


With a view toensure proper cleanliness in railway promises, South Central Railway vigorously implements the provisions of Indian Railways (Penalties for Activities Affecting Cleanliness at Railway Premises) Rules-2012.

DuringAugust, 2013, 5800 persons were detected / penalized for violating the provisions ofthis Rules by littering, spitting etc., o­n railway premises. This includes 865 persons in Secunderabad Division, 411 persons in Hyderabad Division, 2088 persons inVijayawada Division, 559 persons in Nanded Division and1130 persons in Guntakal Division and 743 persons in Guntur Division. An amount of Rs. 11.70 lakh/-was realized from these persons towards penalty.

During the first five months of thecurrent financial year, ie., April to August 2013, 32800 persons were detected for committing the offence of littering, spitting etc., o­n Railway premises and an amount of Rs. 66.00 lakh was realized from themtowards penalty.

The Indian Railways (Penalties for Activities Affecting Cleanliness at Railway Premises) Rules-2012 came into effect from November, 2012. The rules stipulate penalties up to Rs. 500/- o­nany person / passenger found either littering or spitting or urinating or defecating or pasting posters or dumping garbage o­n railway premises etc.

The New Delhi-Ludhiana Shatabdi Express will now halt at Jind Railway station.

"Beginning today, the train will halt at Jind on all seven days of the week," Congress MP from Rohtak Deepender Singh Hooda said.

Hooda, who travelled in the train from New Delhi to Jind today, said the new stoppage would help commuters of the area who frequently travel to Delhi and Ludhiana.

Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge, addressing a rally at Hansi near Hisar on July 28, announced the train would have a halt at Jind.

Hooda told reporters in Jind that the work on Jind-Gohana-Sonepat railway line is expected to be completed by year-end.

"In the last Railway Budget, approval was given for electrification of Rohtak-Jind-Jakhal line. After completion of the work, an EMU train will run between Jind and Delhi," he said.

The MP said it was after about 116 years that Jind has got a new railway line (Jind-Gohana-Sonepat).

"Before this, the Jind-Narwana line was constructed in 1897," he said.

Mumbai, Sept 8: A public interest litigation (PIL) has sought a probe by NIA into the 7/11 Mumbai serial train blasts alleging false implication and fabrication of evidence against Muslims by the state ATS in the case. The PIL filed on September 5 in the Bombay High Court has also sought a stay on the trial being conducted by a special MCOCA court against 13 accused, alleged to be members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), for their involvement in the July 11, 2006 serial train blasts. A PIL has sought a probe by NIA into the 7/11 Mumbai serial train blasts. It has sought a direction to NIA to re-investigate the train blasts pending which the 13 arrested accused should be released on bail and trial against them should be stayed. "Different wings of the Maharashtra police have presented different versions at different times about the 7/11 train bombings," the PIL states. It said that even in the 2006 Malegaon blasts, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested several Muslims which now National Investigation Agency (NIA), claims is the handiwork of Hindutva extremists.

Nepal has said Sep 6 that the Chinese authorities in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) had agreed to extend the region’s expanding railway network into the neighbouring Himalayan country. Nepal’s myrepublica.com Sep 6 cited the country’s Chief Secretary Leela Mani Poudel as saying an assurance to this effect was given by Mr Luo Sang Jiang Cun, chairman of the TAR Government.The ethnically Tibetan Chinese official has told the visiting Nepalese official that China would expand the rail service to Nepal once the ongoing Lhasa-Shigatse rail service comes into operation. The construction of the Lhasa-Shigatse railway, which has been going on since 2010, is scheduled to be completed by next year.This is the first time China is reported to have given a concrete assurance to extend a railway service into Nepal. Previously, China had only said it would consider Nepal’s request most favourably. “Feasibility study is underway for expanding rail service between Nepal and Tibet. We will immediately commence the process for implementing the plan once railway line reaches Shigatse from Beijing,” the report said Hari Basyal, Nepalese Consul General in Lhasa, quoted Luo as saying in the Sep 5 meeting with Poudel.At the meeting, the Nepali delegation also solicited Chinese support for the construction of a Kathmandu-Lumbini rail service and linking it with Shigatse, the report added.

Poudel has also asked China to support Nepal in the development of its trade infrastructures, including the construction of dry ports, upgrading of roads and building of new railway for facilitating the promotion of bilateral trade.

Poudel reiterated Nepal´s policy of not allowing anti-China activities on its soil, the report added.   The meeting took place in the backdrop of the holding of the 14th Nepal-China’s Tibet Economic and Trade Fair – 2013, a biennial five-day event which opened in Shigatse on Sep 5.

VIRUDHUNAGAR: With the Madurai railway division extending Karaikudi-Manamadurai-Karaikudi passenger till Virudhunagar via Aruppukottai, the long-standing demand for rail connectivity in the section has finally been met. The extended passenger train was formally inaugurated at Virudhunagar junction on Saturday morning.Viruthunagar - Manamadurai section was closed for broad-gauge conversion work in 2008 and the people in the region were stressing for the speedy completion of the works as the work proceeded at snail pace.After five years, the section was ready for train operation and the section was inaugurated for train operation in the presence of Union minister of state for civil aviation K C Venugopal on July 14. The recently flagged off Puducherry - Kanyakumari Weekly Express was the sole train plying through this section. As the local people were demanding more train services, the division has now extended Karaikudi-Manamadurai DEMU passenger till Virudhunagar.The extended passenger service, train number 76837 Karaikkudi-Virudunagar passenger (except Saturdays) will leave Karaikkudi at 6.15pm and arrive Manamadurai at 7.35pm to leave Manamadurai at 7.45pm and will reach Virudunagar at 9.45pm. Meanwhile, train number 76838 Virudunagar-Karaikkudi passenger (except Sundays) will leave Virudunagar at 6am, arrive Manamadurai at 7.40am to leave Manamadurai at 7.50am and will reach Karaikkudi at 9.35am. The train will stop at Devakottai road, Kallal, Panangudi, Sivaganga, Melakonnakulam, Manamadurai, Narikkudi, Tiruchchuli and Aruppukkottai.

Virudhunagar MP, Manick Tagore flagged off the train in the presence of divisional railway manager, A K Rastogi and Additional DRM, V Ajithkumar and other railway officials. A Malairajan, a member of the Consumer Forum in Aruppukottai welcomed regular train service on the stretch after five years. "The train timings are very beneficial for the office-goers. We urge the railway authorities to extend this train up to Senkottai so that many more benefitted," he said.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who has been pleading with the public to vote for him in lieu of his freebies, has made an exception for his pet project Jaipur Metro. When he launched the project in 2010, he hoped it would be a vote-catcher if he could start it well before Assembly elections in December 2013. But on August 25, when Gehlot visited the Metro sites, he saw the graffiti on the wall. With the project much behind schedule, he now says: "Not every work should be linked to elections."

VIRUDHUNAGAR: With the Madurai railway division extending Karaikudi-Manamadurai-Karaikudi passenger till Virudhunagar via Aruppukottai, the long-standing demand for rail connectivity in the section has finally been met. The extended passenger train was formally inaugurated at Virudhunagar junction on Saturday morning.Viruthunagar - Manamadurai section was closed for broad-gauge conversion work in 2008 and the people in the region were stressing for the speedy completion of the works as the work proceeded at snail pace.After five years, the section was ready for train operation and the section was inaugurated for train operation in the presence of Union minister of state for civil aviation K C Venugopal on July 14. The recently flagged off Puducherry - Kanyakumari Weekly Express was the sole train plying through this section. As the local people were demanding more train services, the division has now extended Karaikudi-Manamadurai DEMU passenger till Virudhunagar.The extended passenger service, train number 76837 Karaikkudi-Virudunagar passenger (except Saturdays) will leave Karaikkudi at 6.15pm and arrive Manamadurai at 7.35pm to leave Manamadurai at 7.45pm and will reach Virudunagar at 9.45pm. Meanwhile, train number 76838 Virudunagar-Karaikkudi passenger (except Sundays) will leave Virudunagar at 6am, arrive Manamadurai at 7.40am to leave Manamadurai at 7.50am and will reach Karaikkudi at 9.35am. The train will stop at Devakottai road, Kallal, Panangudi, Sivaganga, Melakonnakulam, Manamadurai, Narikkudi, Tiruchchuli and Aruppukkottai.

Virudhunagar MP, Manick Tagore flagged off the train in the presence of divisional railway manager, A K Rastogi and Additional DRM, V Ajithkumar and other railway officials. A Malairajan, a member of the Consumer Forum in Aruppukottai welcomed regular train service on the stretch after five years. "The train timings are very beneficial for the office-goers. We urge the railway authorities to extend this train up to Senkottai so that many more benefitted," he said.

5800 People Penalised for Littering, Spitting etc., on Railway Premises During August, 2013


With a view toensure proper cleanliness in railway promises, South Central Railway vigorously implements the provisions of Indian Railways (Penalties for Activities Affecting Cleanliness at Railway Premises) Rules-2012.

DuringAugust, 2013, 5800 persons were detected / penalized for violating the provisions ofthis Rules by littering, spitting etc., o­n railway premises. This includes 865 persons in Secunderabad Division, 411 persons in Hyderabad Division, 2088 persons inVijayawada Division, 559 persons in Nanded Division and1130 persons in Guntakal Division and 743 persons in Guntur Division. An amount of Rs. 11.70 lakh/-was realized from these persons towards penalty.

During the first five months of thecurrent financial year, ie., April to August 2013, 32800 persons were detected for committing the offence of littering, spitting etc., o­n Railway premises and an amount of Rs. 66.00 lakh was realized from themtowards penalty.

The Indian Railways (Penalties for Activities Affecting Cleanliness at Railway Premises) Rules-2012 came into effect from November, 2012. The rules stipulate penalties up to Rs. 500/- o­nany person / passenger found either littering or spitting or urinating or defecating or pasting posters or dumping garbage o­n railway premises etc.

VISAKHAPATNAM: Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has mooted a rail over bridge (ROB) connecting Railway New Colony and Gnanapuram in the city at a cost of Rs 30 crore to ease traffic problems in and around the city railway station.Explaining the project proposal to the Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) of Waltair division of East Coast Railways, Anil Kumar, here on Saturday, the civic chief said they would also submit a detailed project report to the state government for approval of the ROB.The GVMC chief also appealed to the DRM to cooperate with GVMC in taking up the service road on the left side of the flyover towards Railway Station in front of the DRM office that is located between the Railway hospital and Officers' Guest House.The civic chief also assured the DRM that GVMC would soon release pending dues worth Rs 1.02 crore to the Indian Railways. He said GVMC had already allocated 25 acres at Mudasarlova as compensation for land that the corporation took for the flyover project from the railways. He informed the DRM that the flyover project would be inaugurated by chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.