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  Indian Railways News  / India-Bangladesh to sign rail link MoU between Agartala and Akhaura

The Indian Govt would soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh to set up a 15-km railway link between Tripura capital Agartala and Bangladesh’s southeastern city of Akhaurah. At a cost of Rs 271 crore, The Indian Railway Construction Company (IRCON) would lay the  railway track, of which five km falls in the Indian territory and the remaining in Bangladesh. The railway project was decided by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina during her maiden visit to India in January 2010. The establishment of the new railway link would helped connect northeast India with Chittagong international sea port, resource-rich Sylhet and Dhaka. Agartala, for instance, is 1,650 km from Kolkata and 2,637 km from New Delhi via Guwahati and West Bengal, whereas the distance between the Tripura capital and Kolkata through Bangladesh is just about 350 km.

  Indian Railways News  / Western Railways rakes in Rs 5.8cr from ticketless travellers

MUMBAI: The Western Railway (WR) booked 1.64 lakh commuters in October, which included Navratri, for travelling without a valid ticket. Fines to the tune of nearly Rs 5.84 crore were recovered from the ticketless travellers.

WR chief public relations officer Sharat Chandrayan said, "We also registered 469 cases of illegal transfer of reserved tickets (for long distance journeys) and fines to the tune of Rs 3.57 lakh were recovered. During the same period, 1,024 beggars and unauthorized hawkers were apprehended." They were prosecuted and fined. During the same month, 198 checks were conducted against touts and other anti-social elements. As a result, 363 persons were apprehended and prosecuted under sections of the Railways Act. Of those apprehended, four were sent to jail.

The WR has a Surakshini squad comprising women ticket checkers and RPF personnel. The squad caught 603 beggars and evicted them from railway premises in October.

  Indian Railways News  / KMRL board unlikely to discuss DMRC role

This is because a committee headed by Union Urban Development Secretary Sudhir Krishna and the Chief Secretaries of Kerala and New Delhi as members is yet to state whether the DMRC’s resources can be spared for executing the metro.
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A meeting of the Director Board of Kochi Metro Rail Ltd. (KMRL), on Tuesday, is unlikely to discuss the extent of involvement of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in the Kochi Metro.This is because a committee headed by Union Urban Development Secretary Sudhir Krishna and the Chief Secretaries of Kerala and New Delhi as members is yet to state whether the DMRC’s resources can be spared for executing the metro.KMRL’s MD Elias George had on Saturday said that the DMRC would have a seminal role in the project.DMRC officials had said that the agency’s Kochi unit had ample number of technical personnel to oversee the metro rail’s works, and they needed very little help from its head office in New Delhi.The Director Board will discuss the status of land acquisition for the Kochi Metro, which requires a total of 40.40 hectares of government and private land.The immediate land requirement is widening of the Town Hall-Madhava Pharmacy Junction stretch into a four-lane road as part of the metro rail’s preparatory works. The KMRL has handed over nine cents of land to the DMRC for this. A few more cents of land is required.

COMPENSATION

Section 4(1) notification has been published for acquiring many plots for the metro project (mostly to locate metro stations) along its Aluva-Tripunithura Pettah alignment.

The district-level purchase committee and the State-level empowered committee are expected to fix the compensation that has to be paid to the land owners, KMRL sources said.

Even if land owners resist the acquisition, the Revenue Department will take advance possession of their lands after 80 per cent of the compensation is handed over to the owners.

To a question on when the KMRL will sign a memorandum of understanding with the National Highways Authority of India to widen narrow stretches on the Aluva-Edapally stretch of NH 47, the sources said discussions were on with the agency and they had to vet the details.

The aim is to provide motorists with a four-lane NH when the construction of the metro rail is on.

THE EVOLVING ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE OF KMRL TOO WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE MEETING. THE AGENCY IS IN THE PROCESS OF RECRUITING TECHNICAL EXPERTS HAVING EXPERIENCE IN METRO RAILS OR RAILWAY. ITS HUMAN RESOURCE POLICY TOO HAS TO BE FRAMED, AND THE DIRECTOR BOARD IS EXPECTED TO DECIDE AND APPROVE THIS.

THIS IS THE THIRD MEETING OF THE NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS – FIVE OF THEM REPRESENTING THE UNION GOVERNMENT AND FIVE OTHERS THE STATE.

MOREOVER, THIS WILL BE THE FIRST BOARD MEETING FOR THE NEW CHIEF SECRETARY JOSE CYRIAC.

  Indian Railways News  / Kochi Metro: Get, set, go - The New Indian Express

Giving wings to Kochi Metro dreams, the authorities on Monday waved green flag for the trial run through the reconstructed motor bays of the North Rail Overbridge (RoB) on Monday.

The officials of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), traffic police authorities and other officials concerned monitored the trial run that was conducted between 11 am and 12 noon.

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