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Due to line block to facilitate engineering works in Tiruttani yard, the following changes in train services have been made.

T.No.43505 MMC - Tiruttani EMU scheduled to leave MMC at 10.00 hrs. & T.No.43508 Tiruttani - MMC EMU scheduled to leave Tiruttani at 13.10 hrs. will be partially cancelled between Arakkonam - Tiruttani on 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 24th, 25th, 26th & 27th June 2013.



(V.J. ACCAMMA)
Chief Public Relations Officer

Southern Railway will introduce a new train service named Velankanni Express between Chennai Egmore and Velankanni on 22nd June 2013.
T.No.16185 Chennai Egmore – Velankanni (Link) Velankanni Daily Express will leave Chennai Egmore at 23.15 hrs. and arrive Velankanni at 07.45 hrs. the next day.

T.No.16186 Velankanni – Chennai Egmore (Link) Velankanni Daily Express will leave Velankanni at 20.45 hrs. and arrive Chennai Egmore at 05.25 hrs. the next day.

Train No. 16185/16186 Chennai Egmore – Velankanni – Chennai Egmore Express will run with Train No. 16175/16176 Chennai Egmore – Karaikal – Chennai Egmore Express between Chennai Egmore – Nagapattinam – Chennai Egmore in both the directions with the existing timings.

The composition of the Velankanni Express will be 1 AC 3-tier, 2 Sleeper Class, 1 General Second Class and 1 second class-cum-luggage coaches.

The trains will stop at Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Peralam, Mayiladuthurai, Sirkazhi, Chidambaram, Cuddalore Port Jn., Tiruppadiripuliyur, Villupuram, Tindivanam, Melmaruvathur, Chengalpattu and Tambaram.

Advance reservation for the above trains will commence on 19.6.2013.

PATNA: The Bihar government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a consultant - Rites Ltd - for feasibility study and Detailed Project Report preparation for the proposed 30-km Patna Metro railway project, officials said on Tuesday.The MOU was signed between the Rites Ltd Director (Projects) Arbind Kumar and Urban Development Secretary S Siddarth yesterday.Under the agreement, RITES Ltd will be required to submit the feasibility report by September, 2013 and DPR by December, 2013, they said.In its scope of works, the consultant will be required to identity the mass transit corridors on the basis of detailed traffic demand assessment study, topographic survey, soil survey at 500 meters interval on the proposed stretch among other measures, they said.

PATNA: The Bihar government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a consultant - Rites Ltd - for feasibility study and Detailed Project Report preparation for the proposed 30-km Patna Metro railway project, officials said on Tuesday.The MOU was signed between the Rites Ltd Director (Projects) Arbind Kumar and Urban Development Secretary S Siddarth yesterday.Under the agreement, RITES Ltd will be required to submit the feasibility report by September, 2013 and DPR by December, 2013, they said.In its scope of works, the consultant will be required to identity the mass transit corridors on the basis of detailed traffic demand assessment study, topographic survey, soil survey at 500 meters interval on the proposed stretch among other measures, they said.

PATNA :   The Bihar government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a consultant – Rites Ltd – for feasibility study and Detailed Project Report preparation for the proposed 30-km Patna Metro railway project, officials said today.The MOU was signed between the Rites Ltd Director (Projects) Arbind Kumar and Urban Development Secretary S Siddarth yesterday.Under the agreement, RITES Ltd will be required to submit the feasibility report by September, 2013 and DPR by December, 2013, they said.In its scope of works, the consultant will be required to identity the mass transit corridors on the basis of detailed traffic demand assessment study, topographic survey, soil survey at 500 meters interval on the proposed stretch among other measures, they said.

Haflong (Assam), June 18 (PTI) Two suspected insurgents with arms, ammunition and some documents were arrested from Lumding railway station in Dima Hasao district in Assam.

Based on intelligence inputs, the police and Railway Police Force arrested the two underground suspects Rahul Bodo alias Tusi Sukripa and Monjit Langthasa last night.

The news of auctioning the historic Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock Bridge across the Godavari shortly by the Railway Board came as a rude shock to the people of Rajahmundry as well as East and West Godavari district.

In a recent meeting, the General Manager of South Central Railway informed the local MLA that the Railway Board had taken a decision to auction the Bridge as scrap.

Immediately, the MLA appealed to Rajahmundry MP Vundavalli Arun Kumar to keep the decision of the Railway Board in abeyance and then represent it to Union Railway Minister and State Minister.

The issue, which has been hanging fire for long, has come to the fore again, when Union Minister of State for Railways Kotla Suryaprakash Reddy came to Rajahmundry in the month of December, 2012.

After serving the Indian Railways for over a century, the Havelock Bridge was abandoned.

After the news was broke out, historians, academicians, intellectuals, elite and non-government organisations along with political parties decided to take up agitations to protect the historical monument.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an Inspector of works(Construction) and an Assistant Divisional Mechanical Engineer, both of Northern Railway, Ambala Cantt. in two separate cases of bribery.



            A case was registered under Prevention of Corruption Act alleging demand of bribe of Rs.16000/- later reduced to Rs.15000/- by IOW(Construction), working in the office of Executive Engineer, Northern Railway, Ambala Cantt, for releasing bank guarantee, securities and earnest money of the complainant. CBI laid a trap and the accused official was caught red handed while demanding & accepting bribe of Rs.15000/- from the complainant. Search was conducted at his premises which yielded a recovery of cash Rs.1.75 lakh and some incriminating documents.



            The arrested accused was produced before the Designated Court and remanded to Judicial custody.



            In another case, CBI has arrested an Assistant Divisional Mechanical Engineer(ADME), Northern Railway, Ambala Cantt. for demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs.2,000/- from the complainant.



            A complaint was received from a Ambala based Contractor alleging demand of bribe by ADME, Northern Railway, Ambala Cantt. in lieu of passing monthly bills pertaining to the works awarded to the complainant. The Railway official had told the complainant that as he is passing his bills every month, he should pay him bribe on monthly basis, failing which his bill payments would be stopped. CBI registered a case against ADME, Northern Railway, Ambala. Subsequently, a trap was laid and the accused was caught red handed while demanding & accepting bribe of Rs.2000/- as monthly installment. Searches are being conducted at the office and residential premises of accused.



            Further investigation in both the cases are continuing.

The news of auctioning the historic Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock Bridge across the Godavari shortly by the Railway Board came as a rude shock to the people of Rajahmundry as well as East and West Godavari district.

In a recent meeting, the General Manager of South Central Railway informed the local MLA that the Railway Board had taken a decision to auction the Bridge as scrap.

Immediately, the MLA appealed to Rajahmundry MP Vundavalli Arun Kumar to keep the decision of the Railway Board in abeyance and then represent it to Union Railway Minister and State Minister.

The issue, which has been hanging fire for long, has come to the fore again, when Union Minister of State for Railways Kotla Suryaprakash Reddy came to Rajahmundry in the month of December, 2012.

After serving the Indian Railways for over a century, the Havelock Bridge was abandoned.

After the news was broke out, historians, academicians, intellectuals, elite and non-government organisations along with political parties decided to take up agitations to protect the historical monument.

Southern Railway will introduce a new train service named Velankanni Express between Chennai Egmore and Velankanni on 22nd June 2013.
T.No.16185 Chennai Egmore – Velankanni (Link) Velankanni Daily Express will leave Chennai Egmore at 23.15 hrs. and arrive Velankanni at 07.45 hrs. the next day.

T.No.16186 Velankanni – Chennai Egmore (Link) Velankanni Daily Express will leave Velankanni at 20.45 hrs. and arrive Chennai Egmore at 05.25 hrs. the next day.

Train No. 16185/16186 Chennai Egmore – Velankanni – Chennai Egmore Express will run with Train No. 16175/16176 Chennai Egmore – Karaikal – Chennai Egmore Express between Chennai Egmore – Nagapattinam – Chennai Egmore in both the directions with the existing timings.

The composition of the Velankanni Express will be 1 AC 3-tier, 2 Sleeper Class, 1 General Second Class and 1 second class-cum-luggage coaches.

The trains will stop at Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Peralam, Mayiladuthurai, Sirkazhi, Chidambaram, Cuddalore Port Jn., Tiruppadiripuliyur, Villupuram, Tindivanam, Melmaruvathur, Chengalpattu and Tambaram.

Advance reservation for the above trains will commence on 19.6.2013.