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  Indian Railways News  / 5 Nagpur Municipal Corporation squads raid godowns to check octroi evasion

NAGPUR: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) busted two rackets engaged in octroi evasion on October 10 and 14. To check for more such rackets, five squads searched many godowns in Central Nagpur and seized 97 parcels on Monday. Verification of goods and related documents is underway and is likely to end with detection of a couple of more rackets engaged in octroi evasion.Until now, such drives were conducted only by officials of octroi department. For the first time, on Monday, municipal commissioner Shyam Wardhane engaged additional deputy municipal commissioner Ravindra Kumbhare and assistant commissioners of zones Mahesh Moroney (Dharampeth Zone), Mahesh Dhamecha (Dhantoli), Subhashchandra Jaidev (Laxmi Nagar) and Ganesh Rathod (Lakadganj) in the octroi evasion verification drive.Wardhane took the decision after the detection of the racket on October 10 and implemented the new system on Monday. Such raids will continue now, sources said.Assistant commissioner (octroi) Milind Meshram, who was part of one of the five squads, said the drive commenced at 8am and ended by evening. "All five squads searched over 10 godowns each. Rathod led a squad with octroi inspectors Sanjay Mendule and Sumer Gajbhiye to verify a truck (RJ-11/5797) of Nagpur Freight Carrier at its godown. They seized 58 parcels of clothes, cooker, motor parts and electrical goods for verification. Similarly, Moroney's squad with octroi inspector Dilip Mate seized 10 parcels for verification. Jaidev and his squad comprising octroi inspector Chahande searched godowns but found no irregularity. Squad led by me and Dhamecha along with Jitendra Tomar verified two vehicles of New Golden Transport (HR-55/L-65360 and HR-73/1196) and seized seven parcels of clothes, nine of cycle parts, five of surgical/sports goods, seven parcels of bags and one parcel of hardware material for verification," he said.

Meshram said the new system will help increase revenue and control octroi evasion. "The civic chief asked the assistant commissioners of all ten zones to participate in the drives and assist octroi department. Wardhane has set a target of Rs2 crore revenue per day from octroi," he said.

The octroi department is the biggest revenue earning department in NMC and contributes 50% of the revenue. Any increase in revenue will give scope for new development projects in the city. NMC is also taking up the issue of evasion from railway route and is likely to follow up with the Central Railway for introduction of a system implemented at Mumbai for collecting octroi at the railway station.

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  Indian Railways News  / 28 MORE WINTER SPECIAL TRAINS ON KONKAN RAILWAY

28 MORE WINTER SPECIAL TRAINS ON KONKAN RAILWAY FOR ITS ESTEEMED & VALUABLE PASSENGERS
In addition to 88 Winter Special Trains already announced on Konkan Railway Route recently, in co-ordination with Northern Railway, Konkan Railway has now introduced the following 28 additional AC Superfast Express Winter Special Trains between New Delhi – Madgaon – New Delhi for the convenience of its most valuable and esteemed passengers. The details of these train services are as under:  
Train No. 02456 / 02455 New Delhi – Madgaon – New Delhi (Weekly)

Train No. From To Departure/Arrival Date
02456 New Delhi Madgaon 23.55/11.30 Hrs   (On Third day) 31/10/2012 to 30/01/2013 (Every Wednesday)
02455 Madgaon New Delhi 21.30/07.40 Hrs (On Third day) 02/11/2012 to 01/02/2013 (Every Friday)     
Halts at:These trains will halt at Nizamuddin, Agra Cantt., Jhansi, Bhopal, Bhusaval, Nasik Road, Kalyan, Panvel, Roha, Chiplun, Ratnagiri, Kudal, Thivim and Karmali Stations. The train will have 14 coaches.  With these additional train services, the total number of Winter Special Trains being run on Konkan Railway Route during winter season rises to 112. It is requested that wide publicity may kindly be given for the information and convenience of the esteemed passengers travelling on Konkan Railway Route.

  Indian Railways News  / 8-coach Metro trains from December

SAVLI, GUJARAT: With its ridership increasing, crowding in Delhi Metro trains has become a problem. Come December and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will introduce eight-coach trains on those corridors that have a higher ridership. On Tuesday, it received the 600th MOVIA car from Bombardier at Savli in Gujarat.Manufactured at Bombardier's facility in Savli, the new trains will complement the existing six-coach train fleet and hopefully address the problem of overcrowding, said DMRC managing director Mangu Singh. He was accompanied by urban development secretary Sudhir Krishna while taking the delivery of the car.DMRC had ordered 614 cars from Bombardier for 700 million euros and the first lot had been delivered in September 2009. Singh said his organization has been expanding its network rapidly in the NCR and delivery of more cars would help it tackle over-crowding. "These coaches will help us carry more passengers in a safe and efficient manner," he said. Harsh Dhingra, chief country representative of Bombardier, was also present on the occasion and said the Savli site has evolved into an Indian production and engineering hub.The Delhi Metro began its operations with four coach trains; it then began converting them into six-coach ones in December 2010. While a six-coach train can carry 2,220 passengers comfortably, an eight-coach train would be able to accommodate 2,960 passengers. Delhi Metro carries 20 lakh passengers a day on all its six operational lines with just two corridors-Noida and Gurgaon-accounting for over 60% of the total ridership.

The ridership is expected to touch 40 lakh in 2016 when Phase-III, which will bring another 107 km of the capital under the Metro map, becomes operational. The organization plans to convert most of the trains running on these two corridors that connect the capital with its satellite towns into eight-coach ones.

  Indian Railways News  / Vadodara railway division initiates measures to control accidents at unmanned crossings

VADODARA: The safety organization of the Vadodara division of Western Railway has started measures to control accidents at unmanned level crossings in the railway division.For this it is identifying safety missions every month for generating safety awareness by mass contact with people.The railway division is organizing seminars, video shows, and distribution of safety pamphlets, nukkad nataks and road shows."During the month of August, seminars were conducted by our division. During this seminars, videos were shown and safety pamphlets were distributed amongst 4812 school children, 257 teachers and staff along with 25 school bus drivers of 11 schools apart from village panchayats and chaupals," divisional railway manager of Vadodara division Naveen Kumar Shukla informed on Tuesday.During the same month, nukkad nataks were also performed at two schools and a village panchayat while 472 road users were approached covering over 16 unmanned level crossings.

In September, 6325 safety pamphlets about precautions to be taken while crossing unmanned level crossings were distributed among 2729 villagers of 33 village panchayats. Another 6861 school children including teachers and staff of 31 schools and 632 road users covering 16 unmanned crossings were approached by a team of senior divisional safety officer and safety counselors of the division.