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  Indian Railways News  / railway to scrap tatkal ticket scheme? - बंद होगी रेलवे की तत्‍काल स्‍कीम? - www.bhaskar.com

नई दिल्‍ली.ट्रेन टिकट रिजर्वेशन की तत्‍काल स्‍कीम खत्‍म हो सकती है। इस स्‍कीम पर एक तरह से दलालों का कब्‍जा हो गया है। इसे लेकर हाल में मीडिया में काफी खबरें प्रकाशित हुई हैं। इसके बाद हालात सुधारने को लेकर रेलवे में विचार चल रहा है। एक सुझाव यह स्‍कीम बंद करने का भी आया है।  हालांकि इस पर अमल आसान नहीं होगा, क्‍योंकि रेलवे को यात्रियों का गुस्‍सा भी झेलना पड़ सकता है। इसलिए कुछ और विकल्‍पों पर विचार किया जा रहा है। संभव है कि रेलवे तत्‍काल स्‍कीम के तहत टिकट कटाने वाले यात्रियों से बुकिंग के समय ही पहचान पत्र मांगे और अचानक यात्रा का कारण पूछे। एक और प्रस्‍ताव यह है कि तत्‍काल रिजर्वेशन कराने वाले हर व्‍यक्ति से पहचान पत्र मांगा जाए। अभी उसी व्‍यक्ति का पहचान पत्र दिखाना जरूरी होता है जो यात्रा कर रहा होता है

  Indian Railways News  / Vadodara bogies to run electric trains in Australia

VADODARA: Bogies manufactured in Gujarat's small town - Savli - will now ensure that commuters in South Australian capital city, Adelaide, enjoy a comfortable ride in what will be Australia's most modern trains. From Savli, 1250 metro bogies have already become part of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for commuters of country's national capital. Bombardier Transportation India will start exports of Bombardier Flexx Metro 3001 bogies from its Savli site, where the multinational had started a wholly owned railway vehicle manufacturing facility three years back. Bombardier Transportation had won an order from the Government of South Australia in March 2011 for supply and maintenance of 25kV electric trains to be delivered as three-car sets.While the rail cars will be built at Bombardier's Dandenong ( Victoria) and Maryborough (Queensland) manufacturing facilities in Australia, the Savli site will manufacture and supply semi-finished Metro 3001 bogies for this vehicles. The new rail cars designed for Adelaide will form 240-seat trains with state-of-the-art technology including Mitrac propulsion and control system and Flexx bogies developed by Bombardier.These vehicles to be used for Adelaide's suburban railway network, locally as "A-City" will be the first rail vehicles in Australia that will meet new international crash standard specifications.

"This first export order to be manufactured at Savli comes only three years after the start of commercial production in June 2009. In addition to catering to the Indian market, the Savli site is set to develop export activities around the region. With 33 million euro investment, we employ nearly 700 highly skilled team members and indirectly generate around 3,000 jobs in Vadodara region," chief country representative of Bombardier Transportation India Harsh Dhingra told TOI.

"This has made Vadodara the only city in the world with the capacity to deliver all key electrical and mechanical components for the manufacturing of railway vehicles," said Dhingra.

Exports are expected to start in the last quarter of 2012 with completion of deliveries in the second quarter of 2014.

The Savli site of Bombardier is capable of producing 1,500 assembled bogies a year.

  Indian Railways News  / Scam fallout: Indian Railways may scrap tatkal system

The Railway is likely to scrap the Tatkal scheme after an IBN7 expose showed how touts had taken full control over the issuing of emergency tickets. In fact, the Indian Railway is also looking at making it mandatory for ticket seekers to show identification and give reasons for urgent travel.

A sting operation by IBN7 had shown how middlemen, some of them being Delhi Police personnel, were blatantly cornering and reselling tickets meant for passengers. Now the Railway Ministry has finally swung into action. Admitting serious lapses, it has promised stringent action and a series of solutions are being examined.

A middleman caught on camera selling tatkal ticket to an undercover IBN7 reporter. Screengrab from ibnlive
One key suggestion is that the Tatkal system itself be scrapped and an emergency quota be implemented. A passenger seeking reservation under this quota will have to furnish valid reason for the travel.

Another proposal is that identification proof should be made mandatory for any person making the Tatkal reservation. Earlier the ID proof had to be furnished only by the person travelling with the ticket.

Proposals like scrapping the Tatkal ticket sales at counters and allowing only e-reservations and changing the timings for the Tatkal ticket booking to avoid overlap with booking times for normal tickets are also under consideration.

Sources in the Railway Ministry say a decision on the measures to be adopted will be taken soon. Earlier measures to streamline the Tatkal system like allowing only two tickets per person, disallowing change of passenger names after booking and stricter cancellation rules don’t seem to have worked in eliminating touts.

  Indian Railways News  / Mamata's tenure the golden phase of Railways : Mukul

Howrah, June 30 (PTI) Terming the tenure of Mamata Banerjee as the 'golden phase' in the history of country's largest network, Railway Minister Mukul Roy today said all the projects being implemented now were planned by Banerjee.

"This is a phase when new trains are being introduced, line doubling work is carried on in several divisions, new projects are coming up.

  Indian Railways News  / Jaipur-Secunderabad-Jaipur bi-weekly Special trains extended for two more trips

Jaipur-Secunderabad-Jaipur bi-weekly Special trains extended for two more trips
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Train No.09736/09735 Jaipur-Secunderabad-Jaipur Bi-weekly Express will be extended to run for two more trips to its existing timings, stoppages and days of service.