sushil | Planning a vacation? Hop onto the Majestic Palace on Wheels on : September 08, 2013 - 03:56:16 AM |
New Delhi: Palace on Wheels, the luxury train for tourists, today chugged out of Safdarjung station here on its first journey of the season carrying 34 passengers. A joint venture of Indian Railways and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC), the train with all modern facilities will travel to Jaipur, Sawaimadhopur, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bharatpur and Agra before returning to the capital. The train has 23 coaches comprising 14 saloons, one spa coach, two restaurants--"Maharaja" and "Maharani", and one reception-cum-bar. The seven-day journey takes the tourists across mountains, rivers, forests and sand dunes in air-conditioned comfort. It will make a total of 34 trips from September 2013 to April 2014 and 3000 passengers are expected to travel in the train, said a senior railway official. The Palace on Wheels is a luxury tourist train. It was launched by the Indian Railways to promote tourism in Rajasthan. The train service was refurbished and relaunched in August 2009 with a new decor, itinerary and cuisine. It was voted the 4th luxurious train in the world in 2010. |
RailXpert | A multi-crore scam that's been quietly chugging along on : September 08, 2013 - 04:00:03 AM |
In an unprecedented move, the Mumbai Railway Accident Claims Tribunal (RCT) has asked the Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR) to file FIRs on fraudulent railway accident compensation claims.The RCT found that compensation awarded to railway accident claimants run into crores — CR paid Rs70.2 crore in two years — and that 25 per cent of compensation cheques are returned because the claimants’ addresses turn out to be fake. Since January 2011, 1,905 of the 7,346 cheques issued by CR were returned unclaimed because of incorrect addresses. In one case, an RCT team led by its member (technical) S Ananthanarayan notified the anti-corruption bureau that 30-odd cases filed with it had the same address for all the victims in the Adarsh Nagar locality of Jalgaon. Also, all claimants had accounts in two cooperative banks in Jalgaon’s Ganesh Colony area.On August 23, the RCT wrote to the WR’s chief claims office, asking it to file an FIR in connection with an accident compensation case filed at the Lucknow RCT as well as the Mumbai RCT, which was in contravention of the rules. The man who filed the case in Lucknow, however, said he did not file for the claim in Mumbai.Atul Rane, chief spokesman, CR, said it was the first time that CR had filed five FIRs in two months against such fraudulent claims. “We are filing cases under section 148 (making false statement in a compensation application punishable with a three-year jail term or a fine) of the Indian Railway Act. This was done on the recommendation of the Mumbai RCT,” he said. |
nikhilndls | Planning a vacation? Hop onto the Majestic Palace on Wheels on : September 08, 2013 - 04:00:07 AM |
New Delhi: Palace on Wheels, the luxury train for tourists, today chugged out of Safdarjung station here on its first journey of the season carrying 34 passengers. A joint venture of Indian Railways and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC), the train with all modern facilities will travel to Jaipur, Sawaimadhopur, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bharatpur and Agra before returning to the capital. The train has 23 coaches comprising 14 saloons, one spa coach, two restaurants--"Maharaja" and "Maharani", and one reception-cum-bar. The seven-day journey takes the tourists across mountains, rivers, forests and sand dunes in air-conditioned comfort. It will make a total of 34 trips from September 2013 to April 2014 and 3000 passengers are expected to travel in the train, said a senior railway official. The Palace on Wheels is a luxury tourist train. It was launched by the Indian Railways to promote tourism in Rajasthan. The train service was refurbished and relaunched in August 2009 with a new decor, itinerary and cuisine. It was voted the 4th luxurious train in the world in 2010. |
irmafia | Onam special trains to stop at Mavelikara on : September 08, 2013 - 05:56:08 AM |
MANGALORE: Southern Railway has provided five Onam special trains with a one minute stoppage at Mavelikara. Train number 08569 Vishakapattnam - Kollam special leaving Vishakapatnam at 9am on Sundays and Thursdays from September 8 to 29 will leave at Mavelikara at 12.42pm. Train number 08570 Kollam - Vishakapattnam special leaving Kollam at 9pm on Monday/Friday from September 9 to 30 will depart Mavelikara at 9.44pm. |
Mafia | Inaugural run of Coimbatore-Rameswaram weekly express from September 17 on : September 08, 2013 - 05:56:14 AM |
COIMBATORE: The inaugural run of the Coimbatore-Rameswaram Weekly Express would be held on Sept 17 from here and from Rameswaram the next day in the return direction. |
puneetmafia | Inaugural run of Coimbatore-Rameswaram weekly express from September 17 on : September 08, 2013 - 05:56:26 AM |
COIMBATORE: The inaugural run of the Coimbatore-Rameswaram Weekly Express would be held on Sept 17 from here and from Rameswaram the next day in the return direction. |
eabhi200k | Norh East Frontier Railway rally to beat Sunrise AC on : September 08, 2013 - 05:56:51 AM |
NFR rally to beat Sunrise AC |
puneetmafia | Velankanni to Mumbai special train on : September 08, 2013 - 05:57:00 AM |
Two special trains, one between Velankanni-LTT Mumbai and another between LTT Mumbai-Chennai Central will be operated in order to clear the extra rush of passengers attending Velankanni Matha festival at Velankanni, in Tamilnadu.Velankanni-LTT Mumbai special train will depart from Velankanni at 23.00 hrs on September 8 (Sunday) and arrive in LTT Mumbai at 11.05 hrs on Tuesday.LTT Mumbai-Chennai Central special train will depart from LTT Mumbai at 12.25 hrs on September 10 (Tuesday) and arrive in Chennai Central at 12.30 hrs on Wednesday. |
railgenie | - अब प्रयाग से ही चलेगी कानपुर पैसेंजर - Amar Ujala on : September 08, 2013 - 05:57:05 AM |
इलाहाबाद। उत्तर मध्य रेलवे प्रशासन ने इलाहाबाद जंक्शन से एक और ट्रेन हमेशा के लिए हटाने का फैसला कर लिया है। इलाहाबाद से ऊंचाहार होते हुए कानपुर तक चलने वाली एयूसी पैसेंजर अब कानपुर से प्रयाग के बीच ही चलाई जाएगी। यह ट्रेन नौ सितंबर से प्रयाग से इलाहाबाद के बीच नहीं चलेगी। अभी यह गाड़ी इलाहाबाद जंक्शन से कानपुर के लिए शाम 4.45 बजे छूटती है। सीपीआरओ संदीप माथुर के मुताबिक नौ सितंबर से गाड़ी संख्या 54102/54101 कानपुर से प्रयाग के बीच ही चलेगी। इससे प्रयाग से छूटने वाली ट्रेनों की संख्या बढ़कर छह हो जाएगी। यहां से पहले से ही जौनपुर की एक, फैजाबाद और बरेली की दो-दो पैसेंजर ट्रेनों का संचालन किया जा रहा है, लेकिन यात्रियों के लिए दिक्कत यह है कि प्रयाग से छूटने वाली ट्रेनों में न साफ-सफाई होती है और न ही पानी भरने की कोई व्यवस्था है। इलाहाबाद से कुंडा, ऊंचाहार और लालगंज की ओर जाने वाले यात्रियों को एक लाभ जरूर मिलेगा कि प्रयाग स्टेशन से इस ट्रेन का संचालन दुरुस्त हो जाएगा। जंक्शन से चलने के दौरान अक्सर यह गाड़ी रात आठ से नौ बजे के बीच छूटती है। |
nikhilndls | स्टेशन मैनेजर ने किया निरीक्षण on : September 08, 2013 - 06:00:05 AM |
आसनसोल रेलवे स्टेशन में यात्रियों की सुविधा को ध्यान रखते हुए स्टेशन मैनेजर हसन न्याज ने शनिवार को स्टेशन का निरीक्षण किया। इस दौरान डिप्टी कमर्शियल मैनेजर मनोज तिवारी भी मौजूद थे। सूत्रों के अनुसार, स्टेशन मैनेजर ने प्लेटफार्म संख्या पांच के ऊपरी मंजिल पर स्थित रिटायरिंग रुम, वेटिंग रुम, प्लेटफार्म संख्या दो व पांच का निरीक्षण किया। इस दौरान प्लेटफार्म स्थित टी स्टाल, कैंटीन, साफ-सफाई आदि का जायजा लिया। मालूम हो कि हाल ही में हसन न्याज स्टेशन मैनेजर बन कर आए हैं। वे स्टेशन परिसर में साफ-सफाई पर विशेष जोर दे रहे हैं। उनके ही प्रयास से जीआरपी थाना में साईन बोर्ड लगा। जो कि पिछले डेढ़ वर्ष से नहीं था। |
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