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  Indian Railways News  / रेललाइन निर्माण कार्य के दौरान बीज बोए खेतों में घुसा पानी

रामगढ़, बरकाकाना : कोडरमा-हजारीबाग-बरकाकाना से होते हुए रांची तक बन रहे रेललाइन निर्माण कार्य के दौरान बनाए जा रहे पुल से तेलियातू गांव के कई बीज बोए खेतों में पारी भर गया है। खेतों में बीज व खेत बर्बाद होने से गुस्साएं ग्रामीणों ने जोरदार विरोध किया। घटना की सूचना के बाद ओपी बरकाकाना सअनि सुनील कुजूर सदलबल वहां पहुंचकर जानकारी ली। इसके बाद निर्माण कार्य कर रहीं कंपनी त्रिभुवन अरोड़ा के लोगों को बुलवाकर कई बिंदुओं पर चर्चा की। इधर कंपनी के लोगों ने ग्रामीणों को आश्वासन दिया कि पांच दिन का समय दे। खेत में लबालब भरे पानी को वे उचित स्थान पर निकालने का प्रयास करेंगे। इधर ग्रामीणों ने कहा कि बर्बाद हुए बीज व खेतों में घुसे बालू की वजह से हुए क्षतिपूर्ति का मुआवजा दिया जाए। मुआवजा नहीं मिलने व निर्धारित समय सीमा के अंदर पानी अगर खेतों ने नहीं निकाली गई तो ग्रामीण कार्य को बंद करवा देंगे। निर्माण कार्य के दौरान अभियंता ने बताया कि खेतों की पानी को निकालने के लिए काफी मशक्कत करनी पड़ेगी। बावजूद जेसीबी से मिट्टी काटकर पानी को निकाला जाएगा। मौके पर ग्राम प्रधान सुरेंद्र महतो, नागेश्वर महतो, शीबू महतो, प्रेम महतो, काशी महतो, बरतू महतो, प्रयाग महतो, बालेश्र महतो आदि ग्रामीण उपस्थित थे।

  Indian Railways News  / Runaway train goes across India border

In a scene somewhat similar to Hollywood movies Runaway Train and Unstoppable, an unmanned train engine covered 29 km from India to Nepal on Monday. The diesel locomotive covered the distance from Jaynagar in Bihar on the Indo-Nepal border to Janakpur, the mythical birthplace of Lord Ram's wife Sita in Dhanusha district of Nepal, in 45 minutes. Operated by Nepal Railways Corporation, the Jaynagar-Janakpur narrow gauge stretch is part of the only functional train network in Nepal covering 53 km used by passengers to reach the sacred Hindu site. Though the passenger train takes two and half hours to traverse the distance at 10 km per hour, on Monday the engine sped at over 50 km per hour as railway officials watched in horror. It chugged past many bridges, pools and seven stations for 45 harrowing minutes before being diverted to an unused track in Janakpur railway station and brought to a halt by placing obstructions. The train's driver had got down at Jaynagar to quench his thirst while leaving the engine on neutral transmission mode when it started moving. Despite authorities learning about the incident immediately, they failed to stop the engine due to lack of manpower and equipment. It covered three kilometers before entering Nepal. "The episode could have ended in a serious crash if we had not placed obstructions," Maniraj Khatiwada, station manager at Janakpur told The Kathmandu Post.

  Indian Railways News  / BYJD warns of mass movement

The Biju Yuva Janata Dal (BYJD) on Saturday warned unless the Centre stops its ‘anti-Odisha’ stand in the field of development of railway infrastructure, there will be mass movement in Odisha against the ‘step-motherly’ attitude.Reduction of Rs 186 crore from the budget will hit the development of railway infrastructure in the State hard, BYJD president Sanjay Dasburma said and alleged that it is a conspiracy against Odisha.  The people of the State will give a fitting reply to the Centre for this injustice to Odisha, Dasburma told a media conference here.Dasburma alleged that even though Odisha had given a revenue of Rs 7,500 crore to the Railways in 2012-13, only Rs 723 crore was provided to the State in the Railway Budget. An all-party committee, headed by Speaker Pradip Amat, had demanded Rs 2,345 crore in the budget for development of railway infrastructure in the State, Dasburma said and added the Chief Minister had also placed a similar demand. Last year’s provision has affected industrialisation in the State as well as expansion of infrastructure to the Naxal-hit districts, he said.BYJD spokesman Bijay Nayak, State vice-president Lopamudra Buxipatra and Bhubaneswar district president Babu Singh were present.

  Indian Railways News  / Magnetic Metro scrapped

The ambitious plan of Delhi Metro to introduce high-speed magnetic metro trains without wheels in phase 3 to run through a small corridor, has finally been scrapped. According to officials, the plan to run the Magnetic Levitation or Maglev trains to ply on the 5.5 km Najafgarh-Dwarka corridor proposed in phase 3 has been dropped. "We wanted to introduce the Maglev trains on experimental basis on a small stretch. But we later realised that Maglev is not a trusted technology and may create technical problems in the future," said SD Sharma, director business development, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).Last year a three-member team comprising former DMRC chief E Sreedharan, former director (works) and present MD Mangu Singh and director (rolling stock) HS Anand had visited Korea to gather first-hand experience about the Maglev trains. Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials have been engaged in development of Maglev trains in Korea. After returning, Sreedharan had sent a proposal to the union urban development ministry and also the chief minister of Delhi.After gathering experience from this small stretch, DMRC wanted to introduce Maglev trains at other cities as well at a later stage, HS Anand, director Rolling Stock had told HT. Initially, Delhi Metro thought that they will be able to run Maglev technology-based trains on the stretch as these trains' passenger carrying capacity is almost similar to the mid-capacity trains that are operational on Line 5 (Inderlok-Mundka) and Line 6 (Central Secretariat-Badarpur).

"As we have dropped the plan to introduce Maglev trains, mid-capacity trains will ply on the proposed Najafgarh-Dwarka corridor to be built in phase 3," Sharma said.

  Indian Railways News  / Railway hospital to get new OPD Block

General Manager of South Western Railway Ashok Kumar Mital has said that a new Out-Patient Department (OPD) block and an additional operation theatre would soon be set up at the Central Railway Hospital in Hubli.He was speaking after inaugurating the Golden Jubilee Railway Hospital Day celebrations in Hubli on Sunday.Mr. Mital also said that the SWR had plans to computerise all the transactions in the hospital and also add other facilities and for the purpose clearance and funds from the Railway Board had been sought.He said that after gaining the status of Headquarters’ Hospital with the formation of the South Western Railway, the Central Railway Hospital was able to improve its services.“While the other such hospitals in newer railway zones were facing several problems, the Central Hospital in Hubli has been able to come up with additional facilities because of the dedicated service of the existing staff and medical officers of the hospital”, he said.Mr. Mital admitted that earlier he didn’t have faith in the results given by the medical laboratories of the railway hospitals.