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शाहजहांपुर : सिग्नल में आई तकनीकी खराबी के कारण गुरुवार को किसान एक्सप्रेस की रफ्तार को ब्रेक लग गया। सिग्नल में तकनीकी खराबी के कारण ऐसा हुआ। हालांकि कुछ मिनट बाद ही ट्रेन गंतव्य के लिए रवाना हो गई।
13308 डाउन गंगा सतलुज (किसान) एक्सप्रेस प्रात: 10 बजे रेलवे स्टेशन के प्लेटफार्म नंबर एक पहुंची थी। प्लेटफार्म पर निर्धारित ठहराव के बाद ट्रेन रवाना हुई तो रफ्तार पकड़ने से पूर्व चालक ने ब्रेक लगा दिया। प्लेटफार्म पर सबकुछ ठीक होने के बावजूद ट्रेन रुकी तो गार्ड अचरज में पड़ गया। चालक से पूछने सिग्नल रेड होने की जानकारी हुई। वाणिज्य कर्मी, स्टेशन मास्टर ट्रेन रुकने की वजह जानने पहुंच गए। सिग्नल में गड़बड़ी की बात सामने आने पर सभी अलर्ट हो गए। अफसर कुछ करते इससे पूर्व ही ग्रीन सिग्नल मिला तो ट्रेन गंतव्य को रवाना हो गई। स्टेशन प्रशासन ने ट्रेन के ठहरने की बात लिखा-पढ़ी में न होने की बात कही है।

Demanding a separate Koshal state comprising western Odisha districts, activists under the banner of Koshal Kranti Dal (KKD) today staged a rail roko agitation here.

As a result, express, passenger and goods trains remained stranded at various railway stations, official sources said.

"We have already requested the state and Union government to take immediate steps for formation of Koshal state," KKD president Upendra Mohapatra said.

Bhubaneswar-Bolangir Intercity Express and a goods train were detained at Sambalpur Road station for some time by activists along with students here.

Howrah-Jagadalpur Express was stranded for some time at Bargarh as slogan shouting agitationists squatted on the railway tracks.

Similar demonstrations were staged at Bolangir and Jharsuguda railway station affecting the traffic.

"The rail roko agitation was successful and people from all walks of life spontaneously participated in it," said KKD president.

Earlier on Saturday, rasta roko agitation was held in 10 districts on national highways and state highways linking Western Odisha, said Mohapatra.

MANGALORE, AUG. 9:   The Palakkad division of Southern Railway has said that train services will be regulated in connection with yard re-modelling work at Podanur junction from August 10 to 26.

It said that train no. 16107/16108 Chennai Egmore – Mangalore – Chennai Egmore Express will be partially cancelled between Coimbatore and Mangalore during August 20-25.

Train no. 16107 Chennai Egmore – Mangalore Central Express will be regulated for 60 minutes at Coimbatore on August 11, 13, 14; and for 70 minutes on August 12, 15. This train will be regulated for 120 minutes at Coimbatore on August 16; for 60 minutes on August 17, 18 and 19; and for 70 minutes on August 26.

Train no. 16318 Jammutawi – Kanyakumari Express will be regulated for 105 minutes at Coimbatore on August 15, and for 105 minutes on August 22.

On August 16, train no. 12678 Ernakulam Junction – Bangalore Express will be regulated for 45 minutes at Madukkarai, and the train no. 13352 Alleppey – Dhanbad – Alleppey Express for 75 minutes at Madukkarai. On that day, the train no. 13351 Dhanbad – Alleppey – Dhanbad Express will be regulated for 60 minutes at Coimbatore.

On August 16, and the train no. 12660 Shalimar – Nagercoil Express will be regulated for 90 minutes at Coimbatore, it said.

PUNE: The Pune railway division has initiated a special drive against illegal travelling. During June and July the division booked as many as 1,418 people for various offences such as ticket less travelling, invalid tickets and unbooked luggage. The administration has said that action will continue at all prominent stations in the division in coming days. The action was initiated jointly by the railway officials and the staff of railway protection force (RPF). The officials took action on the platforms as well as in the long distance trains passing through Pune division and local trains that run between Pune-Lonavla and Pune-Talegaon. Offenders were given strict warnings to travel with legal tickets. The officials said that most offenders were caught on the Pune station, Shivajinagar and Miraj. As many as 584 people were booked in June and 834 booked in July. A total fine of Rs. 3.60 lakh was imposed in the cases. The railway administration said that additional ticket windows have been started at prominent stations. The administration was also in the process of appointing ticket agents by opening additional ticket counters near the stations under the Jansadharan Ticket Booking Sevak scheme. About 10 JTBS are being made operational in Pune, most are located in nearby Pune station area, said officials.

GUWAHATI  – Displaying perfect teamwork, defending champions NF Railway Sports Club trounced Food Corporation of India (FCI) Sports Club 4-0 in today’s match of the Abhishek Motors GSA Super Division Football League for the RG Baruah Trophy at the Nehru Stadium here.The FCI boys were totally outplayed in all departments and virtually danced to the tunes of the well-combined Railway players. The defenders in particular were toothless and they could not prevent the nimble-footed Railway frontliners from entering their territory. FCI defender, Sachin Basumatary, who was in sound form in the previous match, was totally off-colour today and as a result, the whole defence line could not match the opponent’s striking force.The Railway boys, who were not in their best form in the last encounter against Navajyoti, bounced back and forged ahead in the 22nd minute through Sibra Narzary. Sibra got the ball when FCI custodian Govinda Boro could not grip it off a set piece taken by Shashanka Chanda and gently pushed home (1-0).

Leading 1-0 at the breather, the NFR players romped into attack mode with a series of moves using both the flanks. Veteran Duleswar Rabha enhanced the margin in the 54th minute capitalising on a pass from Shashanka (2-0).

After the second goal it became a totally one-sided affair and Sibra scored two more goals outwitting the FCI defence. Sibra netted the third goal in the 58th minute with a header reading a floater sent by Bapa Biswas (3-0). Skilful Sibra completed the tally in the 77th minute with a feeble left footer from top of the box (4-0). The ball deflected into the net kissing David Gayari’s legs.

The FCI attackers were totally outsmarted by the well balanced Railway defenders throughout the course and as a result the Railway goalkeeper K Bijen Singh had a relaxed time under the bar.

Rajbari down Abutani 6-1: In the A Division Football League for the Jibeswar Goswami Trophy, Rajbari Athletic Club fired 6 against Abutani’s 1.

In the totally one-sided match on the second ground, Thoiba scored four goals, including a hattrick, while Ng Santosh and Shaolin Singh added one each.

Thoiba scored in the 12th, 40th, 47th and 73rd minutes while Santosh netted in the 56th minute. Shaolin’s goal came in the 81st minute. For Abutani, Abhinash Talukdar scored the lone goal in the 23rd minute.

Today’s matches: (Super Div) ASEB vs Navajyoti; (A Div) City Police vs Maharana.

CHENNAI: Passengers arriving at Chennai central continue to suffer as the stalemate over relocation of the prepaid autorickshaw stand continues. Autorickshaw drivers at the stand met station manager S Govindaswamy who is learnt to have said that the matter was to be resolved with railway police and traffic police. The drivers had met police on Thursday but the meeting ended without a result.Chennai metro rail, which displaced the prepaid auto stand and put up a barricade on EVRSalai (Poonamallee High Road) 16 days ago, have not offered an alternative space. More than 20 women drivers, all of them widows, continue to be jobless due to the standoff. Passengers arriving at Central are forced to walk with their luggage to the main road where auto drivers charge exorbitant fares for short distances. Southern Railway appears to have washed its hands off the issue. "Every agency is passing the buck. I have two daughters who are in college and this is my only profession. For the last several days I have been jobless," said K Senthil, an auto driver.

New Delhi: The CAG has pulled up Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for relaxing payment conditions for Rs 448 crore owed by Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) in lieu of construction work carried out on Airport Metro Line. In its report, the auditor said that when the Airport Metro link was envisaged it was agreed that DIAL would pay upfront Rs 350 crore for civil work for the line inside the airport. An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) had approved this plan, the report said. DIAL then asked DMRC to build a station near National Highway-8 to serve its commercial areas for which it promised an additional Rs 98 crore to be paid in advance. Commercial rights of NH-8 and airport metro stations were given to DIAL. The CAG observed that DMRC relaxed the terms and allowed DIAL to pay the amount in four instalments, which was in contravention of the government's approval for the payment of construction costs upfront. The report said that DMRC had eased the conditions on a request by secretary of the civil aviation.

The CAG also said that while the four instalments had to be paid on the first day of June 2009, September 2009, December 2009 and March 2010, DIAL did not make the payments as per the agreed schedule and an amount of Rs 54.43 crore was still outstanding as on February, 2013.

However, DMRC in its reply to the auditor in October last year claimed that there was no favour or undue advantage to DIAL, the report says it is not clear "why stage payments were accepted, when it was very clear from the conception stage of the project itself that this payment was to be made upfront."

The CAG report has also found fault with the DMRC for having written a recommendation letter to the customs department which enabled, the Airport metro line operator - Delhi Airport Metro Express Private limited (DAMEPL) to get a benefit of Rs 29.56 crore.

East Coast Railway has decided to introduce a new weekly express train between Puri and Sai Nagar Shirdi from August 10.The Puri-Sai Nagar Shirdi weekly express will leave Puri at 10 p.m. on every Friday August 16 and arrive at Sai Nagar Shirdi at 8.25 a.m. on every Sunday.

NEW DELHI: The Urban Development Ministry wants senior Delhi Metro officials, including its chief, to abstain from DMRC board meeting which will discuss the report of the enquiry committee into closing down of Airport metro line.Sources said that the ministry wants the DMRC officials to stay away as it felt that the presence of DMRC chief Mangu Singh, who was himself incharge of establishing the Airport line or other officials Delhi Metro, would "create a conflict of interest" situation.The Airport line enquiry had found various deficiencies in the project and had identified Kumar Keshav, the then Director (projects), DMRC for system failure and five other officers involved in the contract awarded to M/s IJM IJMI JV and recommended appropriate action against them.The two-member committee comprised D Diptivilasa, Additional Secretary in the UD ministry and then Additional member (works) in the Railway board A K Gupta.Officials said that Diptivilasa had also submitted a supplementary note for fixing the responsibility of the present DMRC chief Mangu Singh, who was then director (works) and R N Joshi, the then director ( finance).The other member, Gupta, was of the view that there appeared no reason for the top management to interfere in day-to-day working and the responsibility attributed to the top management of the DMRC in this regard is not justified.

The UD ministry had earlier forwarded the enquiry report to CVC for action which had advised the ministry that DMRC board should meet and discuss the report to take suitable action against those responsible.

The Delhi Airport metro line had closed on July 8 2012 after faults were detected in its civil works. The UD ministry had then set up the two-member committee to find facts and fix responsibility .

NEW DELHI: In a bid to avoid any "conflict of interest" when the DMRC board looks at the role of eight serving and former officials of Delhi Metro, including its managing director Mangu Singh in the Airport Metro line mess, the urban development ministry wants Singh and other functional directors to recuse themselves from the meeting. Out of the 16 members in the board, Delhi Metro has seven representatives, including its MD. A source said that as the meeting with this special agenda will discuss the role of Metro officials, none of its representatives should be present. He added that their presence would raise questions on the impartiality of the decision. As per the advice of Central Vigilance Commission, the ministry has asked the board to consider the finding of the ministry's probe panel. The panel had named eight functionaries responsible and found deficiencies on the part of the concessionaire, construction contractors (IJM-IJMI JV), consultants (PCI-PBI-JARTS-TONICHI-RITES) and the detailed design consultants (Systra).

Sources said CVC has advised that the Metro's chief vigilance officer should probe the case and submit the report to the ministry. Questions are now being raised if the CVO can conduct the probe in which the role of his superior (DMRC MD) is under the scanner.