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Haridwar:
In view of thousands of pilgrims stranded in calamity-struck Uttarakhand, the Railways has started special trains from Haridwar, Dehradun and Rishikesh to other parts of the country.Stranded passengers are being transported free of cost as per coordination between the Railways and the Uttarakhand Government ensuring that sufficient empty coaches are sent to Haridwar and Dehradun.Three special trains were run yesterday to Lucknow, Delhi and Ambala and more were being planned as per the expected requirement in the coming days, according to sources in the Ministry of Railways.A task force has also been set up at the level of the Railway Board under its Chairman Vinay Mittal, who is monitoring the situation.The Northern Railway, under which the Moradabad Division, Haridwar and Dehradun railway stations fall, have also geared up by making additional arrangements for the pilgrims.Senior officers have been deputed as special officers in charge of four most crucial points. These officers will be responsible for liaison and coordination with the state civil authorities, ensuring management and dispersal of passengers by trains, running of special trains and also ensuring setting up of 24-hour passenger help booths at these locations.The designated officers are Sanjeev Garg for Dehradun (09717630953), DK Singh for Rishikesh (097171630969), Hitendra Malhotra for Haridwar (09760534001) and Vivek Shrivastava for New Delhi (09717631001).

Railway Police Force officials with adequate personnel of inspectors and constables have also been deputed at these four locations along with doctors and paramedical staff.

Adequate arrangements of catering facility, drinking water and frequent announcements via a public address system regarding the status of trains and other passenger-related information is also being done

Meanwhile, a delegation of the BJP met railway officials and complained about lack of sufficient additional trains for the disaster-affected pilgrims from Haridwar.

Led by party unit district chief Vikas Tiwari, the activists gave a memorandum in this regard to Moradabad Divisional Manager Hitendra Malhotra. They demanded extra bogies and trains from Haridwar to other parts of the country.

Malhotra said additional bogies were being attached to the trains bound for Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and other states. In case of cancellation of reservation, full payment was being done to the passengers.

He added that additional counters and information centres had been set up at the Haridwar and Rishikesh railway stations in view of a rise in the number of passengers owing to the natural calamity. The passengers mainly comprise pilgrims who were rescued from Kedarnath, Badrinath, Yamunotri, Gangotri, Chamoli, Uttarkashi, Karanprayag, Tehri, Srinagar, Garhwal and Rudraprayag areas.

HELPLINE NUMBERS

Haridwar: 09760534054, 09760534055

Dehradun: 0135 2622131

Rishikesh: 0135 2434167

Railways 
Northern Railway will run two pairs of special trains, 04911/04912 between Hazrat Nizamuddin and Beas and 04917/04918 between Saharanpur and Beas.

Railways 
Northern Railway will run two pairs of special trains, 04911/04912 between Hazrat Nizamuddin and Beas and 04917/04918 between Saharanpur and Beas.

The government railway police rescued a 12-year-old boy at the Secunderabad railway station here on Friday.According to M Kantha Rao, superintendent of police, the boy, Suraj, hails from Gudihatnur in Adilabad district.On Thursday, he and his mother went to the Secunderabad railway station to board a train to Bangalore. While his mother was buying tickets at the counter, the boy went missing. When he was loitering on the platform, railway police noticed and rescued him. On being questioned, he gave them his parents’ details and mobile number. The police then contacted his  parents over mobile phone and handed him over to them.

WORKER ARRESTED: Railway police arrested 57-year-old railway pointman who abused a co-worker in an intoxicated condition at Old Yard Master’s office at Bellampally railway station.The victim, Sekhar, approached the railway police and lodged a complaint. Based on the complaint, railway police registered cases and took up investigation.Investigation revealed that the railway pointman, Mynabo Bapu, had been abusing and assaulting Sekhar in drunken condition. Police arrested Bapu on Friday and produced him in the court.

TEACHERS, STUDENT HELD: The GRP arrested two teachers and a student who abused a woman sweeper at the parcel office at Bhadrachalam Road railway station.The arrested persons are K Venkata Ramana (28) and G Mohan (24), teachers in Khammam; and E Vijay (22), a student from Kothagudem. The trio, in a drunken condition, abused the female sweeper two days ago. Acting on the victim’s complaint, police arrested the trio on Friday.

Chandigarh:
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.

The South Central Railway (SCR) on June 21 dispatched a special empty rake consisting of 15  coaches to Haridwar for attaching extra coaches or operating special trains for clearing the pilgrims stranded in Uttarakhand due to heavy rains and floods. Separately, a special train is being run from Delhi (Nizamuddin station) to Secunderabad to clear the passengers bound to Andhra Pradesh, the SCR said in a release here. The special empty rake consists of six sleeper coaches, two AC-III tier, five general second Class and two general second class luggage-cum-brake van coaches. Senior SCR officials are in close liaison with Railway Board and Northern Railway authorities to coordinate the movement of special trains/attaching extra coaches on trains from Northern region towards Andhra Pradesh to cater to the needs of the stranded pilgrims, the release said. Extra coaches are also being attached to Secunderabad- bound Dakshin Express and Duronto Express from Delhi to clear the extra rush of passengers, it added.l

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।

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।

ALLAHABAD: GRP sleuths nabbed five persons at Allahabad railway junction on Saturday. All these persons were involved in cases of theft of the luggage of the passengers.These five persons were identified as Mohd. Alam of Civil Lines, Vikas Tiwari of Karchana, Arvind, Mahendra and Arun Kumar. As these persons were planning to loot passengers, GRP sleuths swung into action and captured all these persons from platform number 9/10 of Allahabad railway junction.According to GRP sources, this gang of criminals was involved in many cases of theft and loot of luggage of the passengers traveling in the Mughalsarai-Allahabad, Allahabad-Katni and Allahabad-Kanpur section of the railways.