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  Indian Railways News  / Nizamabad-Kacheguda-Nizamabad DEMU Passenger to Stop at Sirnapalli

South Central Railway will provide o­ne minute stoppage for Nizamabad-Kacheguda-Nizamabad DEMU Passenger at Sirnapalli with effect from 17th October, 2012.Accordingly, Train No. 77685 Nizamabad-Kacheguda DEMU Passenger will arrive / depart Sirnapally at 05 25 / 05 26 hrs.In the return direction, Train No. 77686 DEMU Passenger will arrive / depart Sirnapally at 12.40/12 41 hrs.

  Indian Railways News  / SPECIAL TRAINS

To clear the extra rush of passengers, the following Special Trains will be run between Chennai Central and Pune. T.No.06028 Chennai Central – Pune Garib Rath weekly special will leave Chennai Central at 16.00 hrs. from 24.10.2012  to 28.11.2012 (Wednesdays) and arrive Pune at 13.00 hrs. o­n Thursdays.T.No.06027 Pune – Chennai Central Garib Rath weekly special will leave Pune at 14.15 hrs. from 25.10.2012 to 29.11.2012 (Thursdays) and arrive Chennai Central    at 11.35 hrs. o­n Fridays. The composition of the trains will be 14 AC 3-tier coaches.  The trains will stop at Arakkonam, Renigunta, Koduru, Razampeta, Nandalur, Cuddappah, Yerraguntla, Muddanuru, Tadipatri, Gooty, Guntakal, Adoni, Mantralayam Road, Raichur, Yadgir, Wadi, Gulbarga, Solapur and Daund.  T.No.06027 will stop at Perambur also.

  Indian Railways News  / RTC’s Dasara offer for passengers

Here is cool news for RTC passengers travelling by Visakhapatnam Railway Station to Vizianagaram by ‘Sheetal’ service being operated by Visakhapatnam Region of RTC. The basic fare is being reduced from Rs.1.50 paise a km to Rs.1.20 paise a km with effect from Thursday (October 18). This will result in the passenger paying around Rs.16 less on one-way fare, according to RTC Regional Manager Y. Jagadeesh Babu.Passengers have been requested to avail of the AC service at the lower fare.

Departure advanced

The departure time of Visakhapatnam – Tirupathi Garuda Plus service is being advanced by 2 hours with effect from October 20. The luxury service will leave Dwaraka Bus Station (RTC Complex) at 5.30 p.m. every day.

People from the city coming home from Hyderabad for Dasara vacation can avail of five special Super Luxury and Indra (AC) buses being operated by RTC from October 18 to 23.

The corporation is also operating around 100 specials from Anakapalle and Narsipatnam towns for the convenience of ‘Bhavani’ devotees visiting the temple of Goddess Durga at Vijayawada. Special buses will also be operated from Visakhapatnam to Rajahmundry, Kakinada and various other places in East Godavari district, based on the demand, for the convenience of people visiting their native places for Dasara.

  Indian Railways News  / Kochi Metro: crucial Board meeting today

The crucial Director Board meeting of Kochi Metro Rail Ltd. (KMRL) on Friday is expected to take a call on the legal issues reportedly delaying the handing over of the metro’s work to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).This is expected to clear the air about the uncertainty about when work on the project will pick up steam. Allegations were rife that attempts were being made to keep the DMRC away from the project.A few days ago, E. Sreedharan, Principal Adviser to the DMRC, is said to have written to the Transport Minister and the KMRL that the agency would pull out of the project if a solid decision was not taken at the Board meeting. The State government is yet to issue an order despite its Cabinet deciding in January to award the work to the DMRC.He also put in black and white how the Central Vigilance Commission norms applied only to private firms and not the DMRC, “the sole agency in the country which has got fourth-generation metro-rail technology.” This technology is being adopted on lines seven and eight in Phase III of the Delhi Metro. This latest technology was available for Kochi also, DMRC sources said.Elias George, Managing Director of KMRL, spoke of how the Board’s technical committee suggested updating the detailed project report prepared by the DMRC (in 2005) so that state-of-the-art technology was available. “Matters like communication-based train controls, smoothening curves that have a radius of 90 metres or less and fixing the power lines in between the rails (third-rail traction) instead of having them overhead are likely to come up for discussion at the Board meeting.”

Sources in the KMRL said the State government was expected to prevail over the Union Cabinet on how the work could be awarded to DMRC, “overlooking norms of the Central Vigilance Commission”. The legal opinion of the former Chief Vigilance Commissioners and Supreme Court lawyers have been sought. This is because there is no precedent of such a mega project being entrusted to another government agency sans global tenders, they said.

JICA factor

The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is yet to respond to a letter sent on Monday on whether it insists on global tender since the State government wants to entrust the work to the DMRC on a turnkey basis, they said.

On news reports that global tenders were not called when the KMRL awarded the tender to resurface over a dozen city roads to the Kerala State Construction Corporation and when it entrusted Cusat with doing a study on parking lots attached to metro stations, they said KMRL entrusted the works to another State government agency and hence the norms were not applicable. “Though there were other agencies with the expertise, Cusat had the human resources to do the parking study.” Sources said the Board was also expected to decide on matters such as the design of pillars and the number of coaches on each train and their width.

  Indian Railways News  / Vana Prasadam scheme extended

Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) has extended the Vana Deeksha and Vana Prasadam schemes till November end, a press release said. HMR is supplying saplings for mass plantation programmes at various institutions and colonies across the city under these schemes, the release said.

For details visit HMR websites ‘www.hyderabadmetrorail.in’ and ‘www.hmr.gov.in’.