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Hundreds of passengers commuting to Chandigarh via trains in morning faced trouble due to the delay in arrival and departure of trains. The delay was caused due to a damaged overhead wire near Babarpur. Railway officials said all the trains which were plying between 8:45 am to 1:30 pm were delayed due to repair work of the overhead wire.A senior railway official said due to the damage in the overhead wire only single track was used for the plying the trains on the route near Babarpur. This delayed arrival and departure of all the trains till afternoon.Suman Sharma, a resident of Sector 38, who was traveling in the Himalayan Queen which got delayed by 20 minutes, said it has become a routine practice of the railway to delay the arrival and departure of the trains. She was not consoled with the fact that the delay in the train today was due to some technical fault.

झालावाड़। राजे ने कहा कि रेल व राजनीति एक जैसे हैं। दोनों में लक्ष्य तक पहंुचने के लिए सही समय पर निर्णय करने पड़ते हैं। लोगों ने आने वाले चुनाव के समय सही गाड़ी नहीं पकड़ी तो पांच वर्ष तक उन्हें प्लेटफार्म पर खड़ा रहना पड़ जाएगा।

राजे झालावाड़ रेलवे स्टेशन परिसर में में झालावाड़-कोटा पैसेंजर ट्रेन को हरी झंडी दिखाने से पहले आयोजित सभा को सम्बोधित कर रही थीं। उन्होंने कहा कि 25 साल पुराना सपना आज पूरा होता देख खुशी हो रही है।

Central Railway

Press Release

SPECIAL TRAFFIC BLOCKS BETWEEN ASANGAON-VASIND

   

Central Railway will operate two traffic blocks o­n Up and Dn north east lines between Asangaon and Vasind for engineering works as under -

ON UP & DN LINES BETWEEN ASANGAON AND VASIND

FROM 10.20 AM TO 11.20 AM (1 HOUR)

ON 24.6.2013 (MONDAY) & 26.6.2013 (WEDNESDAY) (2 BLOCKS)

CANCELLATION OF 2 SUBURBAN TRAINS o­n 24.6.2013 & 26.6.2013

1. Asangaon local leaving CST at 9.26 am &

2. CST local leaving Asangaon at 11.16 am

RESCHEDULING OF SUBURBAN TRAIN o­n 24.6.2013 & 26.6.2013

1. CST local scheduled to leave Kasara at 10.10 hrs will be rescheduled to leave Kasara at 10.40 hrs.

Mail/express trains arriving Mumbai during the block period will also be regulated and arrive their destination 10 to 20 minutes behind schedule.

Passengers are requested to kindly bear with the Railway Administration for the inconvenience caused.

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Date: June 22, 2013

This news comes to you from Public Relations Department, Central Railway, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai.

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PUNE: The Government Railway Police (GRP), Pune recently arrested a suspect for allegedly stealing luggage of women travelling in long distance trains. The police have recovered gold ornaments and two cell phones totally worth Rs 1.90 lakh from him. The GRP said the suspect is Sharanappa Pandurang Walher alias Kannadi (19) a resident of Timmapur Chowk, Ambikanagar, Gulbarga, Kanrnataka, currently residing at Pune. The GRP team led by assistant police inspector Mahendra Bagade made the arrest. Bagade said that in the month of March this year, the suspect had stolen a bag of the wife of Shaikh Abdul Nabi of Gulbarga at Pune railway station. Nabi's wife was travelling in Rajkot-Sikandarabad express. "The train had reached Pune railway station around 11.30 pm and left the station after half-an-hour. The suspect had entered into the compartment and had fled with the bag," Bagade said. He said that the superintendent of police (GRP) Pratapsinh Patankar had recently issued orders to launch a special drive to nab the suspects committing thefts in the long distance trains. "We laid a trap and nabbed Walher from a train," Bagade said. During the sustained interrogation he admitted his involvement in the theft in the month of March. "We have recovered gold ornaments, two cell phones totally worth Rs 1.90 lakh from him," Bagade added. The investigating team comprised police constables Sanjay Sonavane, Amardip Salunke, Santosh Chandane, Rupesh Pawar and Dattatreya More.

If you're going to Pune railway station, chances are you'll be greeted at the gate by a tall, bespectacled young girl who'll ask for your ticket. This is a fairly ordinary part of Aleena Zacharias' job as a senior ticket collector (TC) and people usually hand her their tickets without much ado. It's only when they look up however, that they are surprised by a mirror image of her standing just a few feet away, with the same athletic stance, wearing the same brown salwar-kurta uniform, and even the same pink watch and white sneakers. This too, is a fairly regular occurrence, says Aleena, whose twin sister, Anila is also a senior TC at the station."People get confused all the time when they see us. Once there was this man who saw Anila at one end of the station, and then saw me at the other end. He was so puzzled, he came and asked me how I got there so quickly," she says. The sisters, both 23 years old, moved to Pune about three years ago from Kannur, in Kerala, and have been working at the station ever since. "In the beginning, everyone would be surprised when they saw us. Now everyone who works at the station, and even most of the regular passengers know that we are twins," says Anila. In fact, there is only one small difference that can help tell them apart - Aleena's face is slightly longer and narrower than Anila's - a difference that is missed by most people.But this confusion has been a constant part of their lives, right from their childhood. "Our teachers were always confused between us. In 12 th standard, Anila made a mistake but the teacher came and scolded me instead. Later she found out that I was not Anila," says Aleena. It didn't help of course, that their parents dressed both of them in identical clothes. To this day, the sisters continue to wear identical clothes even when they are not on duty.In Kerala, the girls grew up with a university-level volleyball player for a father, and they picked up the game early, in Class V. They grew up to play volleyball professionally for Kerala's state team. Little did they know that their common passion for the sport would continue to keep them together in the future. When they went to play a match in Nagpur, they were spotted by another coach who recruited them to play for the Central Railways team, also offering them a job with the Railways under the sports quota. Ask her what they'll do if they're separated in the future, Aleena says, "We cannot even think of being apart. We had got separate jobs in Kerala but we refused because we wanted to be together."Their normal working hours are from 8 am to 4 pm, but because they also have to fit four hours of volleyball practice everyday, they collect tickets until 12 and practise volleyball for four hours. Here too their identical looks and similar-sounding names has caused some chaos. "The coach would want to call Alina but he would call me instead, or vice versa. For the first year, the team was a bit confused," says Anila.They have hopes of being together even later, as Aleena says. "Not that we're thinking about it right now, but our parents have said that they'll try to look for twin brothers as grooms for us."

New Delhi: Three days after nearly two thousand commuters were stuck when a Delhi Metro train broke down inside a tunnel, the train operators have been directed to speed up the evacuation process in such incidents, Delhi Metro chief Mangu Singh said Friday.Receiving the preliminary report and feedback from the public, Mangu Singh said: "In case passengers are stranded in the underground tunnel without lights and proper ventilation for more than ten minutes, the Metro operational managers should initiate evacuation of passengers."Metro operational managers were asked to ensure adequate tunnel lighting and ventilation during evacuation, and that any natural obstructions are painted with luminous paint. "The tunnel lighting in the underground tunnel will be reoriented by the Metro electrical engineers so that a clear view of the underground passage is available to the commuters in an evacuation scenario," said Metro executive director (corporate communications) Anuj Dayal.On Tuesday at 9.24 a.m. an eight-coach Metro train carrying 1,791 passengers from Jahangirpuri-HUDA City Centre in Gurgaon was stranded in mid-section between Central Secretariat and Udyog Bhawan Metro stations, as the emergency brake did not get released after it was applied.However, the passengers, who were stuck for over an hour, pushed open the emergency exit and came out on the track, thus delaying rescue operations as well as passage on the opposite track. "In such emergency situations the operational managers are asked to evacuate passengers if they are not able to rectify the fault through local trouble shooting," Dayal said.Soon after the incident, the Metro engineers were asked to examine the feasibility of having a secondary backup system for train lighting and ventilation in an emergency situation to ensure that lights and ventilation are always "on". "Such a failure has happened for the first time and a team of engineers from Delhi Metro and the manufacturer are investigating to avoid recurrence of such incident," Dayal added.Delhi Metro makes over 2,800 trips a day, covering about 70,000 km and carrying around 2.2 million passengers on working days.

New Delhi: Three days after nearly two thousand commuters were stuck when a Delhi Metro train broke down inside a tunnel, the train operators have been directed to speed up the evacuation process in such incidents, Delhi Metro chief Mangu Singh said Friday.Receiving the preliminary report and feedback from the public, Mangu Singh said: "In case passengers are stranded in the underground tunnel without lights and proper ventilation for more than ten minutes, the Metro operational managers should initiate evacuation of passengers."Metro operational managers were asked to ensure adequate tunnel lighting and ventilation during evacuation, and that any natural obstructions are painted with luminous paint. "The tunnel lighting in the underground tunnel will be reoriented by the Metro electrical engineers so that a clear view of the underground passage is available to the commuters in an evacuation scenario," said Metro executive director (corporate communications) Anuj Dayal.On Tuesday at 9.24 a.m. an eight-coach Metro train carrying 1,791 passengers from Jahangirpuri-HUDA City Centre in Gurgaon was stranded in mid-section between Central Secretariat and Udyog Bhawan Metro stations, as the emergency brake did not get released after it was applied.However, the passengers, who were stuck for over an hour, pushed open the emergency exit and came out on the track, thus delaying rescue operations as well as passage on the opposite track. "In such emergency situations the operational managers are asked to evacuate passengers if they are not able to rectify the fault through local trouble shooting," Dayal said.Soon after the incident, the Metro engineers were asked to examine the feasibility of having a secondary backup system for train lighting and ventilation in an emergency situation to ensure that lights and ventilation are always "on". "Such a failure has happened for the first time and a team of engineers from Delhi Metro and the manufacturer are investigating to avoid recurrence of such incident," Dayal added.Delhi Metro makes over 2,800 trips a day, covering about 70,000 km and carrying around 2.2 million passengers on working days.

1:35 pm: Army begins evacuation of people trapped near Kedarnath at Jangalchetti

NDTV reports that the army has begun evacuating people slowly from the Jangalchetti area where army teams had to be airdropped in order to get access to around 1000 pilgrims who were trapped there.

The army has made a makeshift helipad which is being used presently to evacuate people, the channel reported.

12:35 pm: Army says they will ensure all flood affected will be taken to safety

ANI reports that Lt General Anil Chait has said that they have built many small bridges to transport people to safety yesterday.

“The road link from Uttarkashi to Harsil is open. Today already 250 people have used it,” Chait was quoted as saying by ANI.

He said that the disaster in Uttarakhand was spread over 40,000 square kilometres and presently there were 8500 army personnel on the ground assisting in rescue efforts.

11: 30 am: 550 deaths so far,  Shinde says rescue ops taking place on war footing

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who is in Uttarakhand today, said various rescue teams were working to provide relief to the thousands of people who are still stranded in various parts of the state.

“Despite bad weather army, NDRF, ITBP teams are landing and conducting rescue operations…Operations are on a war footing,” Shinde told reporters.

As per reports they had received about 200 people were stuck in Jangalchetti, near Gaurikund, and rescue teams were presently working to ensure food is “somehow provided to them”, Shinde said.

The Home Minister said that they had recorded 550 deaths in the state till yesterday, 392 people were reported  injured and 334 people are still missing.

Describing the widespread damage in the state, Shinde said 1,751 houses, 147 bridges and 1307 roads have been damaged in the floods.

Shinde said that 73, 000 people have been taken to safety so far  and an additional 30,000-32,000 still stranded.

“We are hopeful of evacuating all people in the next two days,” he said.

The minister brushed aside criticism that the disaster was man-made.

“I don’t think it is a man-made disaster. There have been two cloud bursts. How can that be called a man-made disaster,” he said.

He also said that given the ongoing rescue efforts and weather conditions it was not advisable for any political leaders to carry out aerial surveys of the areas affected by the disaster.

“Let the police and army work professionally. We should not disturb them right now,” Shinde said.

He said that if he was unable to travel to affected areas then that should apply to other leaders as well.

The minister promised all the funds needed to carry out relief operations.

“We are willing to provide as much funds are needed, for the Uttarakhand flood relief,” he said.

11: 10 am: Angry villagers block road

Villagers angry about the damage caused by extensive flooding and the lack of relief have reportedly blocked the road linking Barkot and Yamunotri, said CNN-IBN.

11:00 am: Rescue ops to continue even if weather worsens, says Army official

An Indian Army official has said that they are prepared to carry out rescue operations even in the event that the weather worsens over the next 24 hours.

“Despite inclement weather ground operations will continue,” Brigadier Uma Maheshwar told CNN-IBN.

He said that the army group that had found the around 1000 pilgrims near Gaurikund were providing them with food and water.

However, he said that transporting them out of the location would be difficult given that the terrain was extemely difficult and only people with training in mountain climbing would be able to cope with it.

11:00 am: ITBP says rescue over next 24 hours will be crucial

A spokesperson for the Indo-Tibetan Border Patrol said that the next 24 hours would be critical to carry out rescue operations given that that the state could see more rains after that.

In an interview with ANI, Deepak Pandey of the ITBP highlighted the difficulties the rescue teams are facing. He said that the ITBP had built a bridge yesterday which they used to rescue people, but it was damaged again last night and they are rebuilding it today.

10:30 am: Army starts dropping paratroopers for rescue ops

In a video that they’ve just uploaded, the Army has shown paratroopers being dropped in Uttarakhand to assist in rescue operations.


09:00 am: Army finds 1000 people stranded near Gaurikund

The Indian Army rescue team has finally made contact with a group of around 1000 people who were stranded between the pilgrimage site of Gaurikund, reports CNN-IBN.

The group of people have been located between Gaurikund and Ram Bada and ropeways are being used to help evacuate the able bodied among the people.

However, given that there are no roads and the terrain is a difficult to negotiate the evacuation will be a slow process.

As there is no helipad near the location the people will be forced to trek down to a lower location from where they can be evacuated, an army spokesperson told the channel.

To stave off chaos on the impending high tide days this month from June 23 to 28, the civic body has decided to inspect flooding spots that fall under the jurisdiction of railways. There are 150 culverts in the railway premises that are desilted by the railway authorities before every monsoon for which the civic body bears the costs. But despite paying the railways Rs2.5 crore this year for desilting the drains, railway tracks continued to be flooded and suburban trains were disrupted on all days that received heavy rain in the past two weeks. The directions were issued by municipal commissioner Sitaram Kunte, who also heads the Greater Mumbai Disaster Management Authority. Kunte held a monsoon review meeting on Wednesday evening to discuss the problems faced by civic officials due to the outpour on Sunday. The meeting was also attended by railway officials. "We will reexamine the flooding spots in railway premises and study the drainage system to identify problem areas," Kunte said. A joint inspection would be conducted by officials from the storm water drains department and those from the railways to prevent flooding on tracks. On Sunday, services running on Central and Harbour railway routes were suspended for as long as four hours leaving lakhs of commuters stranded. Areas that faced major flooding in the past ten days and disrupted suburban trains on the Central Railway route i nclude Masjid, Sandhurst Road, Currey Road among others till Sion. Civic officials, however, said the flooding on railway tracks was primarily because of the inadequate desilting work carried out by the railways.

NOIDA: The Noida Authority has invited public suggestions and objections for amendments in its building bylaws allowing development over 500 metres on either side of existing and proposed Metro corridors. A final decision will be taken by the end of the month after public hearings.Easing of coverage and height restrictions that will allow building properties with enhanced floor area ratio (FAR) of 0.5% was proposed in a joint board meeting of the three development Authorities of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway areas last month. Chairman and CEO Rama Raman said the 500m zone is aimed at carving out a mix of residential, commercial and public utilities along the Metro corridor."The amendment will be applicable to all categories of land use. The 0.5% FAR will be purchasable and our exiting formula for buying it will be applicable. Proceeds from the sale of additional FAR would be used to strengthen the resources of the Metro system," Raman said.Though the Authority is pitching hard for maximizing the land use pattern, organizing open houses to garner peoples' support is also part of their agenda. "Suggestions and views can be given in writing to the chief architect planner's office or by appearing personally between 9.30am and 6pm on working days at our office. Once the process is complete, the plan would be finally reviewed and implemented. We have already sent the proposal to the state government for approval," Rama Raman said.The Authority's aim is to increase population density along the Metro corridors and bring passengers within walking distance of stations. "We are encouraging mixed land use and higher floor area ratios along the Metro corridors to enhance economic activity. Through the proceeds we plan to mobilize resources to fund the future phases of the Metro besides funding the proposed special purpose vehicle (SPV) between Noida and Greater Noida - Noida Metro Rail Company - set up for constructing the proposed Metro corridors," Raman added.The proposed increase in the FAR is also expected to boost realty rates in both townships. Planning around transit lines is linked to economic development because of the scope to increase real estate value, increase tax revenues and generate jobs. Residential development around the Metro, especially if it is a part of a mixed land use strategy, is potential especially for developing cities like Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway areas, the CEO said.