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PUNE: The Pune railway division has eliminated five unmanned level crossings located on railway tracks. Four level crossing were located on Daund-Baramati tracks and one was located in Miraj-Kolhapur section. The railway administration said that road users have been provided alternative level crossings and sub way to cross the tracks.

"The Pune division is planning to close about 15 unmanned level crossings in the current financial year. Of which, five crossings have been closed already. The administration is working to close down remaining crossings. This will make the tracks safer and help prevent accidents", said an official from the Pune railway division.

"There are 28 unmanned level crossings in Pune division. A target has been set to eliminate/close down all these crossings by 2015. Most of these level crossings are located on Daund-Baramati and Pune-Miraj tracks. Besides the administration also deployed staff at all the crossings on Pune-Lonavla and Pune-Daund tracks", the official added.

The railway administration has appealed to the road users to take precautions while crossing the tracks at the unmanned crossings. An official said that sign boards have been installed at the unmanned crossings. Besides repeated announcements are being made at all the prominent stations to use foot over bridges to cross the railway tracks.

PUNE: The Pune railway division has eliminated five unmanned level crossings located on railway tracks. Four level crossing were located on Daund-Baramati tracks and one was located in Miraj-Kolhapur section. The railway administration said that road users have been provided alternative level crossings and sub way to cross the tracks.

"The Pune division is planning to close about 15 unmanned level crossings in the current financial year. Of which, five crossings have been closed already. The administration is working to close down remaining crossings. This will make the tracks safer and help prevent accidents", said an official from the Pune railway division.

"There are 28 unmanned level crossings in Pune division. A target has been set to eliminate/close down all these crossings by 2015. Most of these level crossings are located on Daund-Baramati and Pune-Miraj tracks. Besides the administration also deployed staff at all the crossings on Pune-Lonavla and Pune-Daund tracks", the official added.

The railway administration has appealed to the road users to take precautions while crossing the tracks at the unmanned crossings. An official said that sign boards have been installed at the unmanned crossings. Besides repeated announcements are being made at all the prominent stations to use foot over bridges to cross the railway tracks.

सड़क मार्ग खुलने से आपदा में फंसे लोग धर्मनगरी पहुंचने लगे हैं। हरिद्वार रेलवे स्टेशन पर यात्रियों का हुजूम लगा है। इन्हें सकुशल गंतव्य तक पहुंचाने के लिए रेलवे ने गुरुवार को लखनऊ, दिल्ली और अंबाला के लिए तीन स्पेशल ट्रेनें चलाई हैं। एक अतिरिक्त रैक भी रिजर्व रखा है। जरूरत पड़ने पर गाड़ियों के फेरे भी बढ़ाए जा सकते हैं।
प्राकृतिक आपदा में फंसे लोग धीरे- धीरे धर्मनगरी पहुंचने लगे हैं। बड़ी संख्या में यात्री हरिद्वार स्टेशन पर डेरा जमाए हैं। सभी को घर पहुंचने की जल्दी है, लेकिन ट्रेनें सीमित हैं। यात्रियों को होने वाली दिक्कतों को देखते हुए नॉर्दर्न रेलवे ने गुरुवार को लखनऊ, दिल्ली और अंबाला के लिए तीन स्पेशल ट्रेनें चलाई हैं। लखनऊ के लिए शाम आठ बजे, दिल्ली के लिए रात नौ और अंबाला के लिए रात साढ़े दस बजे ये ट्रेनें यात्रियों को लेकर रवाना होगी।
स्पेशल ट्रेन के सभी कोच जनरल होंगे। इसके अलावा एक रैक भी रिजर्व रखा है। स्थानीय अफसरों के मुताबिक जरूरत पड़ने पर ट्रेनों की संख्या और इसके फेरे भी बढ़ाये जा सकते हैं।
अतिरिक्त टिकट काउंटर खुले
टिकट लेने में यात्रियों को परेशानी न हो इसके लिए रेलवे स्टेशन पर दो अतिरिक्त बुकिंग काउंटर खोले हैं। इनमें एक अनारक्षित (यूटीएस) और दूसरा आरक्षित टिकट काउंटर (पीआरएस) है। आरक्षित काउंटर पर यात्री रिफंड आदि रात दस बजे तक ले सकते हैं।

The closure of MG Road to carry out Kochi Metro work for six months is likely to hit the business in the region. Even though the decision has not been finalised the business community believes that trade will nosedive as it would cause parking problems and other inconvenience for customers. The daily business volume in about 250 shops on the MG Road stretch is in the range of `60 lakh to `1 crore. Traders point out that MG Road has already lost its charm to shopping malls and the business had shifted to Edappally and Palarivattom regions. Though the Kochi Metro Rail work is expected to start only after Onam, the Metro agency will carry out the preparatory work during the weekends till September on MG Road.K G Venugopal, president, Ernakulam Merchants Association, said that the authorities are of the opinion that Kochi Metro work will not affect the traders but in reality, it would be different. “The majority of the business on MG Road has shifted to malls and the bypass. When the work commences, parking will become a hurdle which will not be in favour of traders. In Edappally, where the metro work is in progress, the business has been hit because of space constraints,” he said.He also said that textile and jewellery shops on MG Road would not be much affected by the arrangement as they provide sufficient parking space. Ramesh S Pai, managing partner, A Geeri Pai Jewellers, said that small traders on the road would be affected more. “Even a small shop on MG Road fetches a daily business of around `20,000. When metro work progresses the business will be affected and If the road is closed for six months the trader will find it difficult to regain the business,” he said.Divakar Prabhu, the owner of a shop on MG Road, said that retail activity along the road will be stalled owing to the commencement of metro work. “Branded shops on MG Road had experienced a fall of 60 percent in business when various malls in the city started functioning. The crisis will be severe once the metro work starts on the stretch. The inconvenience will affect all sections of traders,” he said.

After the alleged bribery scandal related to appointments in the Railways Ministry that led to the resignation of Pawan Bansal, the CBI has turned its attention to the Railways's internal practice of distributing Emergency Quota (EQ) to waitlisted tickets on need-cum-priority basis.Following a complaint from Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, CBI officials made multiple visits to the Railway Board this week and spent hours with those in the Railways' Commercial Directorate, and officers of Passenger Marketing, who oversee the process of preparing charts and allocating the quotas as per requests.In a letter, Ramesh had complained about the misuse and forgery of his official letterhead to seek confirmed tickets.The CBI officials took with them documents related to the policy guidelines that govern the allotments of the EQ to tickets. They also took sheaves of paper, which are requests for EQ received from railway officials, MPs, MLA, and others. Internally, every directorate, including the Minister's Cell, has an official request form that is endorsed by an authorised signatory. The number of such requests at the Railway Board alone run into thousands everyday.Sources said that the visiting officials asked the Railways to maintain in a specified format daily records of every request for EQ honoured by the Railway Board. "Granting of EQ is an internal matter of the Railways. How does it fall in the purview of an outside agency? But we are cooperating right now," said a senior Railways official.Every train has a specified number of seats in EQ quota, which are allotted against requests for emergency/urgent travel received from a wide array of people. The most number of requests is believed to be received every day from offices of MPs in their official letterheads.Subject to availability, the Railways always honours requests received from offices of MPs and senior government officials. The problem often faced is that several such requests are signed not by the VIPs or the senior officials themselves but by their personal staff who use their letterheads.The current political dispensation heading the ministry is believed to be working out a method of streamlining the system of requests. The earlier dispensation, headed by Bansal, had been planning sending out letters to MPs asking them not to keep their signatures scanned in their blank letterheads, as is the practice employed by many, but to personally sign them.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Director Mangu Singh has directed all its officials to contribute a day’s salary for the affected people in Uttarakhand to help the State to tide over its present calamity.All non-executive staff members of the Delhi Metro have been given the option to also contribute towards this effort on similar lines.

In SBI account:The contributions will be deposited with the SBI account opened by the Uttarakhand Government for this purpose. At present, DMRC has around 8,000 employees, including 577 officials.

25 जून 2013 कोडरमा के लिए ऐतिहासिक होगा। नवनिर्मित कोडरमा-नवाडीह रेलखंड पर इस रूट की पहली पैसेंजर ट्रेन का परिचालन होने जा रहा है। पूर्व मध्य रेलवे के महाप्रबंधक, पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री बाबूलाल मरांडी, विधायक अन्नपूर्णा देवी हरी झंडी दिखाकर रवाना करेंगी।1धनबाद रेल मंडल के अनुसार उपरोक्त पथ पर पांच कोच वाली पैसेंजर ट्रेन का परिचालन होगा। यह ट्रेन कोडरमा-नवाडीह के बीच दिन भर में दो फेरे लगाएगी। कोडरमा-नवाडीह के बीच यह ट्रेन कोडरमा टाउन, महेशपुर और राकेशबाग स्टेशन पर रूकेगी। कोडरमा से नवाडीह तक दस रुपये और अन्य स्टेशनों के लिए न्यूनतम पांच रुपये किराया निर्धारित किया गया है।11999 में आरंभ हुआ काम : कोडरमा-गिरिडीह रेल पथ का कार्य वर्ष 1999 में आरंभ हुआ था। 14 साल में यह काम पूरा हुआ और 15 वें साल में इस रेल खंड पर रेलवे ने ट्रेन परिचालन को अनुमति दी। नतीजतन उक्त क्षेत्र के लोगों की मुराद पूरी होने जा रही है।जागरण संवाददाता, धनबाद : 25 जून 2013 कोडरमा के लिए ऐतिहासिक होगा। नवनिर्मित कोडरमा-नवाडीह रेलखंड पर इस रूट की पहली पैसेंजर ट्रेन का परिचालन होने जा रहा है। पूर्व मध्य रेलवे के महाप्रबंधक, पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री बाबूलाल मरांडी, विधायक अन्नपूर्णा देवी हरी झंडी दिखाकर रवाना करेंगी।1धनबाद रेल मंडल के अनुसार उपरोक्त पथ पर पांच कोच वाली पैसेंजर ट्रेन का परिचालन होगा। यह ट्रेन कोडरमा-नवाडीह के बीच दिन भर में दो फेरे लगाएगी। कोडरमा-नवाडीह के बीच यह ट्रेन कोडरमा टाउन, महेशपुर और राकेशबाग स्टेशन पर रूकेगी। कोडरमा से नवाडीह तक दस रुपये और अन्य स्टेशनों के लिए न्यूनतम पांच रुपये किराया निर्धारित किया गया है।11999 में आरंभ हुआ काम : कोडरमा-गिरिडीह रेल पथ का कार्य वर्ष 1999 में आरंभ हुआ था। 14 साल में यह काम पूरा हुआ और 15 वें साल में इस रेल खंड पर रेलवे ने ट्रेन परिचालन को अनुमति दी। नतीजतन उक्त क्षेत्र के लोगों की मुराद पूरी होने जा रही है।

A large number of tourists and pilgrims from West Bengal, who were stranded in Uttarakhand, were likely to board trains for Kolkata from Haridwar tonight, West Bengal Disaster Management department sources said. Quoting feedbacks from Tehri, where state's Transport Minister Madan Mitra and Planning Minister Rachpal Singh were camping, the sources here said that a total arrangement have been kept in place both at Rishikesh and Haridwar to assist the stranded tourists and pilgrims for their return to Howrah. Last night 22 pilgrims from West Bengal were helped to board train for Kolkata, the sources said. Special trains have also been arranged by the Railway Board for the purpose which would be available from time to time, they said. With the improvement of weather condition at Gourikund, 65 helicopter sorties were arranged to airlift the stranded tourists and pilgrims to safer locations, the sources said adding that roads have also opened up below Joshimath from Badrinath. Meanwhile, the state government has received a report that 30 people remained stranded at Shangla under Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh for past few days. "Their evacuation has not been possible for want of choppers. An arrangement of food, water etc have been made by the DC of Kinnaur. They can't be evacuated till Helicopters are available from Air Force," the sources said.

A large number of tourists and pilgrims from West Bengal, who were stranded in Uttarakhand, were likely to board trains for Kolkata from Haridwar tonight, West Bengal Disaster Management department sources said. Quoting feedbacks from Tehri, where state's Transport Minister Madan Mitra and Planning Minister Rachpal Singh were camping, the sources here said that a total arrangement have been kept in place both at Rishikesh and Haridwar to assist the stranded tourists and pilgrims for their return to Howrah. Last night 22 pilgrims from West Bengal were helped to board train for Kolkata, the sources said. Special trains have also been arranged by the Railway Board for the purpose which would be available from time to time, they said. With the improvement of weather condition at Gourikund, 65 helicopter sorties were arranged to airlift the stranded tourists and pilgrims to safer locations, the sources said adding that roads have also opened up below Joshimath from Badrinath. Meanwhile, the state government has received a report that 30 people remained stranded at Shangla under Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh for past few days. "Their evacuation has not been possible for want of choppers. An arrangement of food, water etc have been made by the DC of Kinnaur. They can't be evacuated till Helicopters are available from Air Force," the sources said.

LUCKNOW: In a brazen show of strength that took place in the heart of the city during peak hours, two groups involved in the railway contract business wielded firearms at each other inside the northern railway divisional railway manager's (DRM) office on Friday noon.According to reports around 1pm railway contractors Surendra Kumar Kaliya and Rakesh Singh Rana reached the railway office to submit tenders documents of contract related to building platform at Jaunpur railway station. The two sides came face to face and warned each other against going ahead with the tender process. Within moments it became free-for-all fight and goons started hitting each other with rifle butts and firearms. Hazratganj police reached the spot and separated the groups. Both Kaliya and Rana had sustained injuries.Rana alleged that Kaliya had torn the tender form and the bank draft he was carrying. A cross case was registered at Hazratganj police station subsequently by the two sides against each other. TNN The two contractors owe allegiance to two controversial heavyweights from east UP. In the past too several brawls have been witnessed in the same DRM office.