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A fake currency note dealer from Bengal was arrested from Gaya railway station on Tuesday.
Economic Offences Unit officers seized Indian currency notes witha face value of Rs 4.75 lakh from him. With the confiscation, the total value of seized fake Indian currency notes in the state since January has gone up to Rs 30 lakh. So far, 26 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in circulation of counterfeit notes in the state.
Additional director-general (headquarters) Ravinder Kumar said: “One Chhedu Mandal, a resident of Malda in Bengal, has been arrested. Fake currency notes, with a face value of Rs 4.75lakh, were recovered from his possession.”
He said the Economic Offences Unit officers apprehended Mandal soon after he alighted from a train at Gaya railway station and was about to deliver the consignment to a resident.
The notes were of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denomination, he added.
Kumar said a case under sections 489 (A), 489 (B) and 489 (C) of the Indian Penal Code has been lodged against Mandal with the Economic Offences Unit police station in Patna.
Mandal is a native Chaipara in Malda district of Bengal.
He said Malda has, of late, emerged as a nerve centre for the fake currency note dealers in eastern India.
Giving details of the seizure, the additional director-general (headquarters) said counterfeit notes with a face value of Rs 49.96 lakh were seized in 2012 and 53 people were arrested.
“In 2011, fake notes with a face value of Rs 22.54 lakh were recovered and 52 people were arrested,” he added.
Similarly, fake notes with a face value of Rs 18.69 lakh were seized and 72 people were apprehended in 2010.
The police had seized fake notes with a face value of Rs 13.07 lakh and arrested 67 people in 2009.
A year prior to that, 112 people were arrested and notes with a face value of Rs 16.81 lakh were seized.

बिलासपुर। डिवीजन के 10 उन छोटे रेलवे स्टेशनों के रिजर्वेशन काउंटर से अनरिजर्व टिकटें भी जारी होंगी। हर दिन समय विशेष पर जनरल टिकट कटाने वालों की भारी भीड़ होती है। यही वजह है कि काउंटरों के दोहरे उपयोग के निर्देश दिए गए हैं। यह भी तय कर दिया गया है कि किस समय कौन सी टिकट जारी होगी। नया निर्देश मंगलवार से लागू कर दिया गया।
अकलतरा, सक्ती, विश्रामपुर, बिजुरी, किरोड़ीमल नगर ये सभी स्टेशन ऐसे हैं, जहां सुबह 6 बजे से 9 बजे के बीच दो से अधिक पैसेंजर ट्रेनें गुजरती हैं। इसके चलते इस समय स्टेशन में जनरल टिकट लेने वालों की भारी भीड़ रहती है। एक काउंटर से टिकट जारी करने के चलते यात्रियों के बीच झगड़े की स्थिति बन जाती है। बिजुरी, बेलपहाड़ स्टेशन में पैसेंजर ट्रेनें दोपहर में पहुंचती हैं, लिहाजा यहां इस समय भीड़ ज्यादा रहती है।
रेल प्रशासन ने इस समस्या को दूर करने के लिए भीड़ के वक्त रिजर्वेशन काउंटर को यूटीएस यानी अनरिजर्व टिकट काउंटर के तौर पर उपयोग करने की योजना बनाई है। ऐसे में एक काउंटर के सामने लंबी कतार होती है, दूसरा (रिजर्वेशन) काउंटर सूना रहता है।

Patna: Minister of state for railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has blamed the state government for not coordinating with the railways keeping in view the large congregation at Dhamara Ghat railway station during the holy month of Shrawan. He also refuted the state government’s claim that 37 persons died in the Monday tragedy.

“The local administration did not alert the railways about the large congregation of pilgrims for the Shrawani fair at the Katyayani temple. Otherwise, we could have taken some measures,” he said at the Patna airport after returning from the accident site on Tuesday morning.

“Actually, only 28 persons died and nine were injured” Chowdhury said. The minister announced that railways would construct a foot overbridge at the accident site under Samastipur division of East Central Railway (ECR) in Khagaria district. New platforms would also be built at Dhamara Ghat and better public address system would also be installed there to check recurrence of any such accident in future, he said.

“Bihar government gets enough funds from the Centre under Prime Minister Gramin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY). It should have, at least, develop a road network at such a remote place where railways is the only mode of transport,” he said.

According to Chowdhury, railways is keen to hold a high-level probe into the matter to fix the responsibility on the guilty persons.

ECR GM Madhuresh Kumar who camped at the site whole night to restore traffic on Saharsa-Mansi section, said the condition of the injured loco pilots, Rajaram Paswan and Sushil Kumar Suman, was much better now. They are undergoing treatment at a hospital in Khagaria, he said, adding that the services of Saharsa-Patna Rajyarani Express (12567/12568) could be restored only by Thursday.

According to ECR CPRO Amitabh Prabhakar, train traffic was restored on that section and Saharsa-Amritsar Express crossed at 1 on the intervening Monday-Tuesday night. However, security has been beefed up at Dhamara Ghat, he said.

21-08-2013
mumbai
WR TO RUN SUPERFAST GANAPATI SPECIAL TRAIN TO MADGAON FROM AHMEDABAD (Via VASAI ROAD) ON 07/09/2013



For the convenience of passengers during Ganesh Festival, WR will run o­ne Superfast Special train service between Ahmedabad - Madgaon (Goa) via Vasai Rd o­n 07/09/2013(Saturday) to clear extra rush.



Ahmedabad – Madgaon Superfast Special Train (via Vasai Road)



Train No.09418 Ahmedabad–Madgaon Special Train will leave Ahmedabad at 09.30 hrs o­n 07/09/2013(Saturday). It will arrive at Vasai Rdat 16.25 hrs o­n same day and reach Madgaon at 05.30 hrs the next day.



Similarly, in return direction train No.09417 Madgaon – Ahmedabad Special Train will leave Madgaon at 07.15 hrs o­n Sunday, 08/09/2013.It will arrive at Vasai Rd at 21.10 hrs the same day and reach Ahmedabad at 04.10 hrs the next day.



The train will halt at Nadiad, Anand, Vadodara, Bharuch, Surat, Vapi, Vasai Road, Panvel, Khed, Chiplun, Ratnagiri, Kankavali, Kudal, Sawantwadi, Thivim and Karmali stations in both directions.



The train will have AC 2-tier, AC 3-tier; Sleeper class and II class general coaches.



The booking for 09418 will open at all Passenger Reservation Centers o­n 22nd August, 2013.


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रेलवे बुधवार को जोधपुर से तीन नई ट्रेनों की शुरुआत करेगा। इनमें से दो की घोषणा रेल बजट में की गई थी जिन्हें फिलहाल हॉलिडे स्पेशल के रूप में चलाया जाएगा। बहुप्रतीक्षित जोधपुर-जयपुर इंटरसिटी शाम को पहले फेरे पर रवाना होगी। जोधपुर-जयपुर इंटरसिटी बुधवार सुबह छह बजे जयपुर से चलेगी।



सुबह साढ़े दस बजे यहां पहुंचने के बाद शाम सवा छह बजे वापस जयपुर के लिए रवाना होगी। पहले दिन इस ट्रेन में सफर करने के लिए जयपुर से 164 व जोधपुर से 179 यात्रियों ने मंगलवार रात तक टिकट बुक करा लिए थे। इसी प्रकार जोधपुर-भीलड़ी के बीच डेमू  ट्रेन का संचालन भी बुधवार को शुरू होगा। यह सुबह साढ़े छह बजे रवाना होगी। इसी दिन जोधपुर व भीलड़ी के बीच नई पैसेंजर ट्रेन भी शुरू होगी जो रात नौ बजे रवाना होगी।

Though the Western Railway (WR) last month initiated work to raise the height of selected platforms, passengers are unlikely to get immediate respite.

Considering the current administration’s work speed, completion of the platform raising work will take at least 21 months.

This means commuters won’t get respite from perilous suburban travel before May 2015.

The Railway Design and Standards Organisation gave clearance to increase the height of a platform from 760 mm to 920 mm.

In 2012, the WR had conducted a survey in which 32 out of a total of 132 platforms were found most critical.

Currently, work is underway at Grant Road, Charni Road, Elphinstone, Lower Parel, Vile Parle and Khar, while work at five other stations will start soon.

The administration has earmarked sets of three platforms.

Each set is expected to take two months to finish, and only after work on one set is over will work on another set start.

“We are trying to expedite this work so that we can raise all critical platforms at the earliest. The sanction for 32 platforms has arrived, but we are still trying to get approval for 16 more platforms so that work on 48 suburban platforms is complete,” said Shailendra Kumar, divisional railway manager (DRM), WR.

However, activists said that this initiative has come too late.

“The high court had directed the railways to reduce the platform-train gap in 2004, but till date, the work is not complete,” said commuter activist Sameer Zaveri.

Arunkumar Dhar, 46, fell in the gap between the platform and the train while trying to board a local at Mahalaxmi station on Monday, is the latest victim.

When asked if his family would receive compensation, Sharat Chandrayan, chief public relations officer, WR, said, “No such request has been made by them. And such compensation was not paid for similar incidents in the past.”

Jaipur, Aug 21: 
A new superfast special train between Jaipur and Jodhpur via Phulera will commence its first journey from railway station here today morning. The train with 15 coaches, including AC and non-ac chair cars, will leave at 6 am and reach Jodhpur at 10:30 am, a NWR spokesman said. In return journey from Jodhpur, the train will depart at 6:15 pm and reach Jaipur at 10:40 pm. The train will have brief stoppages at Phulera, Kuchaman City, Makrana, Degana, Merta, Gotan and Rai-ka-Babh. The train, a long pending demand of passengers for a morning service between the two important cities, has been approved for 42 trips initially, the spokesman said.

समस्तीपुर रेल मंडल के धमारा घाट में हुई हृदयविदारक घटना से सबक लेकर धनबाद रेल मंडल ने एहतियात बरतना शुरू कर दिया है। रेलवे बोर्ड से जारी आदेश के बाद सभी स्टेशन मास्टर को सतर्क रहने के निर्देश दिये गये हैं। झारखंड, बिहार, उत्तर प्रदेश व मध्य प्रदेश में फैले रेल मंडल के वैसे रेलखंड जहां रेलवे फाटक के आसपास मेला का आयोजन या फिर हाट-बाजार लगता है, उन रेलखंडों पर विशेष एहतियात बरतने को कहा गया है। रेल चालक व गार्ड को ऐसे स्थानों में रफ्तार नियंत्रित कर स्वविवेक से काम करने की हिदायत दी गई है। रेल फाटकों के आने के एक किमी पहले से सायरन बजाकर रेल परिचालन करने तथा भीड़भाड़ वाली जगहों थ्रू पासिंग नहीं करने को कहा गया है।

A fake currency note dealer from Bengal was arrested from Gaya railway station on Tuesday.
Economic Offences Unit officers seized Indian currency notes witha face value of Rs 4.75 lakh from him. With the confiscation, the total value of seized fake Indian currency notes in the state since January has gone up to Rs 30 lakh. So far, 26 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in circulation of counterfeit notes in the state.
Additional director-general (headquarters) Ravinder Kumar said: “One Chhedu Mandal, a resident of Malda in Bengal, has been arrested. Fake currency notes, with a face value of Rs 4.75lakh, were recovered from his possession.”
He said the Economic Offences Unit officers apprehended Mandal soon after he alighted from a train at Gaya railway station and was about to deliver the consignment to a resident.
The notes were of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denomination, he added.
Kumar said a case under sections 489 (A), 489 (B) and 489 (C) of the Indian Penal Code has been lodged against Mandal with the Economic Offences Unit police station in Patna.
Mandal is a native Chaipara in Malda district of Bengal.
He said Malda has, of late, emerged as a nerve centre for the fake currency note dealers in eastern India.
Giving details of the seizure, the additional director-general (headquarters) said counterfeit notes with a face value of Rs 49.96 lakh were seized in 2012 and 53 people were arrested.
“In 2011, fake notes with a face value of Rs 22.54 lakh were recovered and 52 people were arrested,” he added.
Similarly, fake notes with a face value of Rs 18.69 lakh were seized and 72 people were apprehended in 2010.
The police had seized fake notes with a face value of Rs 13.07 lakh and arrested 67 people in 2009.
A year prior to that, 112 people were arrested and notes with a face value of Rs 16.81 lakh were seized.