greatindian | Railways to offer sops to woo private investment on : September 09, 2013 - 15:56:11 PM |
NEW DELHI: With projects worth Rs 1.45 lakh crore pending, the cash-strapped railways plans to offer incentives, including tax holidays, to attract private players to invest in pending socially desirable and strategically located projects.A parliamentary panel was recently informed that the railways will approach the finance ministry after formulating the proposal.The move is an attempt to make investments in socially desirable but economically unviable projects attractive under public-private-partnership (PPP) mode by offering tax incentives and concessions after the lukewarm response of private players in the sector.The state-run transporter is considering incentives such as tax holidays under the I-T Act, exemptions from central excise and custom duty on purchase of capital goods, relief from sales tax and VAT and relief from payment of octroi and entry tax.Parliament's railway convention committee has asked the railways to seriously examine the prospect of PPP in socially desirable projects in backward areas in consultation with the finance ministry."Most of the socially desirable projects have low financial returns in the short run, but yield high socio-economic dividends. The government has to support such projects," a railway official said.Faced with funds crunch and a large number of pending projects, railways has given priority to those projects in which state governments are sharing costs. States such as Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra have come forward to share the cost with railways to complete socially desirable projects. |
railgenie | Merlin shatters women's 13-year-old 100m national record on : September 09, 2013 - 15:56:14 PM |
RANCHI: Railway sprinter Merlin K Joseph smashed the 13-year-old national record in women's 100m race in the semifinals but could manage only a bronze in the finals on the second day of the 53rd National Open Athletics Championships.Merlin clocked 11.35secs to win the semifinals heat number three as she bettered the earlier national record of 11.38secs in the name of Rachita Mistry set in 2000 in Trivandrum. |
greatindian | Judging productivity in railways on : September 09, 2013 - 16:00:03 PM |
Productivity, as commonly understood, measures how efficiently production inputs, such as labour and capital, are being used in an economy to produce a given level of output. For an industry it is a key source of growth and competitiveness, and is basic information for comparison, both in domestic and international markets. It is also used for analysing capacity utilisation and for planning future business strategies.Indian Railways had introduced the system of Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) for its employees in 1979. The index, defined as the ratio of railways output (measured by the total freight tonne kilometres and a proportion of passenger kilometres) and input (measured by the total number of non-gazetted staff), determines the quantum of PLB payable for a year. A PLB of 78 days for 2010-11 was announced recently.The PLB, in its present form, is based entirely on physical parameters without any reference to the financial viability of the system. For example, the Railways paid PLB of 59 and 78 days respectively to its employees for the years 2001-02 and 2010-11 respectively. This may lead one to believe that the productivity of Indian Railways, and by implication its level of efficiency, improved by almost 30 per cent during this period. But, its operating ratios (reflecting the percentage of expenditure to revenue earned) for the two years, recorded distressingly high levels of 96% and 94.6% respectively, revealing that financially Indian Railways had continued to perform poorly, being neither better nor worse off in the two years compared. |
greatindian | NORTHERN RAILWAY INCREASES THE FREQUENCY OF RUN OF THE NEW DELHI-LUDHIANA SHATABDI EXPRESS on : September 09, 2013 - 17:56:06 PM |
NORTHERN RAILWAY INCREASES THE FREQUENCY OF RUN OF THE NEW DELHI-LUDHIANA SHATABDI EXPRESS AND PROVIDES A NEW STOPPAGE TO NEW DELHI-LUDHIANA/ MOGA SHATABDI EXPRESS AT JIND STATION |
puneetmafia | Agartala to get broad gauge connectivity by 2016 on : September 09, 2013 - 17:56:34 PM |
AGARTALA: The North-East Frontier Railway will bring Agartala in the country's broad gauge rail network by 2016. |
railenquiry | Railway escalator to be commissioned on : September 09, 2013 - 17:56:40 PM |
The escalator installed at the Ernakulam junction railway station will be commissioned on Monday. Union Minister K V Thomas will inaugurate the function which will kick off at 4.30 pm. With this, Ernakulam junction will be the first station in the state to boast of such a facility. |
nikhilndls | Federation of Residents Welfare Associations demands to extend CBE-MV JS to TDPR on : September 09, 2013 - 17:56:50 PM |
மயிலாடுதுறை- கோயமுத்தூர் ஜனசதாப்தி விரைவு ரயிலை திருப்பாதிரிப்புலியூர் வரை நீட்டிக்க வேண்டும் என குடியிருப்போர் நலச் சங்கங்களின் கூட்டமைப்பு வலியுறுத்தியுள்ளது. |
puneetmafia | Illegal structure built on railway property by Class IV staffer razed on : September 09, 2013 - 17:57:07 PM |
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has demolished the unauthorised structure built on railway property by a Class IV employee of Pune Railway Division from where he was illegally running a cement shop.According to the police, the structure that was pulled down on September 5 was built illegally by Anil Gaikwad on the railway property and was also blocking the busy road used by residents.Senior Police Inspector (RPF) AK Lakhoria registered an FIR with Bundgarden Police alleging that Gaikwad and his wife Sunita, residents of railway quarters on Tadiwala Road, had set up an illegal cement shop and a commercial idli preparation unit on the property. According to the complaint, Gaikwad was using electricity and water illegally and also assaulted the PI when he was inspecting the premise after receiving a complaint.Gaikwad was arrested by the Bundgarden Police on September 5 and was produced before a sessions judge who granted him a conditional bail.According to RPF official, the structure was demolished in presence of the police and several railway engineers."The material stored inside the room was confiscated by the police," said an official.The railway administration has taken no action against Gaikwad so far. |
riteshexpert | Anti-Telangana stir puts Tirupati pilgrims in a bind on : September 09, 2013 - 17:57:12 PM |
The protests against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh have affected the travel plans of Tirupati-bound Chennaiites. With State Express Transport Corporation (SETC) buses cancelled, pilgrims are looking to other ways of getting to the hill shrine.According to sources, over 3,000 persons go to Tirupati from the city every day. Most of them travel by bus and some, by train. Ever since the Telangana protests began, many buses have been cancelled to avoid inconvenience to travellers. On Sunday, a board outside the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation in Chennai Moffusil Bus Terminus (CMBT) said that buses to Ananthapur, Cuddapah, Kurnool and Tirupati had been cancelled.Sources said that nearly 40 buses to the temple town were cancelled. According to Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) sources, buses will be operated to Tirupati via Uthukotai on Monday.“My in-laws recently came down to Chennai from Delhi and I had planned to take them to Tirupati. But, the cancellation of buses delayed my plan. Finally, we left by train on Sunday,” said S. Varun Narayanasamy, a resident of Arumbakkam. |
Mafia | On local trains, it's graffiti grief for women on : September 09, 2013 - 17:57:22 PM |
A woman journalist was in for a shock recently when she started receiving lewd calls from strangers. On enquiring, she found that someone had scribbled her phone number along with an obscene message in a local train compartment. She then lodged a police complaint.While her complaint is pending with the cyber crime cell, the menace has been giving other women commuters a tough time. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has registered several cases of damaging or defacing railway property, of which five per cent are cases of obscene graffiti against women, officials say.Such graffiti is usually seen in luggage compartments and second class ladies' compartments that become general compartments after 11 pm.Over the past five years, the RPF registered 766 offences on the Western Railway (WR) and 15,311 on Central Railway (CR). These include defacing trains, damaging banners or altering letters or figures in trains or on railway premises. However, the railway administration has failed to take serious action as it "does not have separate data on cases of obscene graffiti in local trains".Women commuters prefer not to approach police. WR commuter Neha Dutt said, "It would be better if the railway authorities frequently cleaned the train coaches and removed the obscene posters and graffiti."Before 2004, such cases were handled by Government Railway Police (GRP). Later, the RPF was empowered to deal with such cases under Indian Railways Act, 1989.In April 2002, the then railway police commissioner Rakesh Maria formed three squads comprising 10 police personnel. Police had then nabbed two culprits red-handed.On April 18, 2002, a 23-year-old final year engineering student and on April 25, 2002, another 20-year-old college student were caught while scribbling vulgar graffiti on the wall of second class ladies' compartment. RPF authorities, however, said it was difficult to catch the offenders red-handed.WR registers cases of defacing trains under section 166 A and 166 B of Indian Railways Act, regarding damage to railway property. The CR's RPF, however, registers these cases as creating nuisance under sections 145 A, 145 B and 145 C of the Act. The minor penalty entails imprisonment for a month or a fine Rs 500 to Rs 1,000.Alok Bohra, senior divisional security commissioner, CR said, "This is the work of perverted minds. Though the law takes care of such offenders, the permanent solution is that every member of the society must respect women.'' |
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