NEW DELHI: On the basis of GATE 2017 score, Indian Railways will recruit for Project Engineer post at Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation Ltd (MVRC). Online registration for the recruitment has begun and candidates can apply till 27 January 2018. A total of 18 vacancies are open in the disciplines of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics & Telecommunication. ‘Though the project tenure is for 5 years, the initial appointment will be made for two years on contract basis with consolidated emoluments. The period of contract is extendable by three years with enhanced emoluments, depending upon the project requirements and performance of the candidate,’ clarifies the recruiting body.

Applicants must not be more than 30 years of age as on 27 December 2017.

Candidates must have qualified GATE 2017 and should have Bachelor Degree in the relevant engineering discipline with minimum 60 percent marks from recognized Govt. Universities or Institutions through full time regular courses only.

‘Engagement will be made on the basis of scores of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering-2017. Based on GATE-2017 score and Organizational requirement, candidates will be short listed for verification of documents and discussions.’

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Candidates shall have to send their application in the prescribed format and email it to gate2017mrvc@gmail.com along with scanned copies of GATE 2017 admit card, GATE 2017 score card, Engineering Graduation Marksheet, Engineering Graduation Certificate, Date of Birth Certificate/Age proof and Caste Certificate (If belonging to reserved community.)

Travelling in a private two bedroom, lounge, kitchen and toilet setup aboard a train could soon be a reality with the Railways exploring ways to facilitate such luxurious journeys.

It will come at a price though, which officials say could be “exorbitant”.

Railways is set to give non-railway personnel a taste of traveling in its saloons or inspection coaches, and is exploring ways to promote it.

In a first of its kind meeting between Chairman Railway Board Ashwani Lohani and travel and trade associations held in Delhi today, the issue of how the luxurious saloons could be promoted for the use of the general public who want to travel in style, was raised.

Mr Lohani conceded that there was a demand for this kind of travel and asked his officers to plan to make at least two such saloons available in Delhi for tourism purposes.

He also asked IRCTC to chalk out routes on which they can be made operational. Mr Lohani also asked the railways’ tourism and catering arm to come out with a brochure on such coaches.

Officials say that saloons or inspection cars, perfect for two families to travel, are adequately built to facilitate stay for up to five days.

They comprise two bedrooms, a lounge, a pantry, a toilet and a kitchen.

They are now most commonly used by senior railway officials to reach accident sites and remote railway lines not connected by road or air.

The closest to this kind of luxury that a common passenger can avail is the tourist car, which can be booked by large groups, but has amenities essential only for an overnight journey.

COMMENTSThe Railways has a total of 336 saloon cars across railway zones, among them 62 are air-conditioned. Railway officials, however, ruled out using more such saloon cars for works other than official.

“This does not mean that we will push all our saloon cars for this purpose. They are extremely significant for inspection purposes and cannot be spared. With these two, we just want to give the common man an experience of travelling in luxury,” said an offici

Three Central Ministries have come together to drive a technology mission for the Railways, which will be beneficial for both the national transporter and academic and research institutions.

A memorandum of understanding on Technology Mission for Indian Railways was signed on Thursday by the Ministries of Railways, Human Resource Development (HRD) and Department of Science and Technology (DST).

The agreement will “facilitate collaboration and cooperation” between the Ministries.

“While the Railways will get world-class technologies, academic and research institutions will get involved in numerous applied research projects which will help them in reorienting research towards national objectives,” Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani said.

Co-financing plans

“This MoU will facilitate the co-financing of Technology Mission for Indian Railways by investment sharing for identified railway projects for applied research,” he added.

The Railway Ministry will fund 30 per cent of the project, while the other two ministries will put in 25 per cent each.

Lohani further said indigenous technologies will be developed with “win-win scenario” to all the consortium members. The Technology Mission will take up research and development projects in the areas of heavy haul, safety, energy, environment and urban railways.

The projects will be implemented through a Mission Implementation and Coordination Committee having members from the three ministries, academia and the industry. The projects will be implemented in the national R&D labs and academic institutions.

Global tie-ups

Collaborations, wherever essential, will be entered into with similar foreign institutions.

The MoU was signed by TMIR chairman Professor N S Vyas, Alok Kumar, co-chairman, TMIR, on behalf of the Ministry of Railways, R Subrahmanyam, Additional Secretary, on behalf of Ministry of Human Resource Development and Dr Neeraj Sharma, Adviser, DST on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Vinod Kumar Yadav, General Manager, South Central Railway held a meeting with Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA), National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) and State Government Officials on 4^th January, 2018 at Tirupati. Vijay Pratap Singh, Divisional Railway Manager, Guntakal and R. Dhananjayulu, Divisional Railway Manager, Vijayawada were also amongst the officials present.

Vinod Kumar Yadav addressing the meeting, instructed the railway officials to submit the requirements regarding operational requirements related to Tirupati and Nellore stations integrated development. He also discussed on other issues like traffic congestion, office building plans and passenger amenities covering retiring rooms, FOBs, Subways and Parking area etc. Later, Tirupati Urban Development Authority(TUDA) Vice Chairman and Municipal Commissioner, Tirupati and Traffic police officials joined the meeting and discussed on approach roads, traffic regulations and other issued related to integrated development works and shared their suggestions and views.

The meeting was focused on major and minor issues pertaining to integrated development of Tirupati and Nellore Railway stations. Major issues such as providing of culvert near LC.No.106 near Poojita residency to avoid the inundation of the proposed southern entrance for Tirupati railway station, Railway Under bridge (RUB) at Rayalcheruvu gate and relocation of the railway reservation counter to have better look and feel to the Govindaraj Swamy pushkarini to be taken up under smart city mission etc.

Later, Ms.Sugunamma, Hon’ble MLA, Tirupati and Narsimha Yadav, Chairman, TUDA met General Manager, SCR at Tirupati railway station and discussed on rail developmental issues of Tirupati Railway station etc.

A.K.Gupta, General Manager of South Western Railway launched Project ‘Saksham’ at Hubballi on 04^th January, 2018. Project ‘Saksham’ is a concentrated capsule of training for all railway employees in short period of time to boost their productivity and efficiency. South Western Railway is thus one of the first Railways to launch this project as per the directives issued by the Chairman, Railway Board.

In his keynote address, Gupta said Project ‘Saksham’ aims to upgrade the skill sets of the workforce with a single drive spanning nine months i.e. till September, 2018. Under Project ‘Saksham’, all employees in the zone will be put through a week’s training in skills and knowledge relevant to their work area. It will be a five day on the job or classroom training in Railway Training centres, depending on the nature of their employment. The nature of short-duration training will range from refresher course, with an eye on evolved global practices in respective areas, to skill in existing line of functioning. Employees from the rank of a peon to higher echelons will undergo the training. The programme will be of immense help to all Railwayman in their endeavour to perform better.

The event was attended by B.B.Singh, Additional General Manager, S.K.Albela, Principal Chief Personnel Officer, P.A.Lamghare, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer, John Prasad, Principal Chief Operational Manager, U.S.S. Yadav, Principal Chief Engineer, the Personnel officers from Bengaluru, Mysuru and Training managers of all departments. Mrs. Beulah Sam Rachel, who is the head of department at Global college of Business administration, IT & Commerce, Hubballi gave a Talk on the “Managerial requisites” on this occasion. Under this project, needs of all the railway staff have been identified and a planned training calendar is prepared so as to complete the training requirements of all the staff over the entire South Western Railway in 9 months. Thus about 2 lakh training days has been planned for officials of all ranks and file, spread over the project duration. All the 9 training centers of South Western Railway as well as on the job training will be used for this. The tag line of project ‘Saksham’ at South Western Railway is Excellence through ‘Saksham’.

Further, e-links on Railway works for learning resources was also inaugurated. Various innovative ways of adopting learning were duly emphasized on this occasion.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday that the electrification of railway routes has taken a “quantum jump” under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.

Since 2014, the railway ministry has been electrifying 1,500 km every year as opposed to only 654 km during 2010-14, Goyal said at an event.

Railway Minister further said, “As Mahatma Gandhi once said, ‘It’s not the man that makes the vision; it’s the vision that makes the man’, and our rail officials have the ability to envision a better railway for India.”

According to media reports, the Centre is also likely to announce 2018 as the year of women’s safety in Railways in the upcoming Budget.

The Railways might use part of the Nirbhaya Fund to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in ladies’ coaches and increase the number of washrooms on platforms, among other measures.

According to Goyal, the Railways also wants to increase its share in the overall goods movement to 50 per cent from the current share of around 35 per cent, touching three billion tons of freight traffic from the current 1.1 billion tons by 2030.

In a bid to encourage cashless transaction, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has initiated a lottery system where customers who buy tickets through might get a 100 per cent cash back.

Commuters who would want to avail of this scheme would have purchase the rail tickets through IRCTC and also pay through their app BHIM or UPI. Passengers while paying for their tickets should opt for one of the two apps at the payment option which would make them eligible for the lottery. Every month five persons chosen through a random draw would get all their money refuned. They would be individually contacted over phone and email.

Authorities said that with the initiation of this scheme, people would be more encouraged to buy tickets online and there will be less crowd at ticket counters. This step would be a shot in the arm to the Centre which has been trying to promote cashless transactions.

Sources at IRCTC said that the lucky draw scheme had been started at the end of last year and looking at the prospective the scheme had been okayed to be continued till March 2007 on a trial basis. After that a meeting would be conducted to decide where it would be continued. Prior to this IRCTC had been giving free travel insurance to passengers of all confirmed tickets purchased through IRCTC.

It was found out that at present nearly 60 per cent of all long distance tickets are purchased through e-ticketing system of IRCTC. They are hopeful that through this scheme the figure would reach at least 70 per cent.

With brick walls failing to solve the problem of garbage being thrown on tracks, the Railways has decided to deal with the menace once and for all by building concrete walls along the tracks.

Officials said that there is a rampant problem of throwing of garbage and plastic bags inside the railway boundary on railway tracks and the national transporter has been grappling with different ideas to deal with it over the years.

“The problem is very acute in metros where slums and habitation has come around railway tracks. We have tried to build brick walls and they have been damaged, said a senior Railway Board official.

“We also proposed wire meshes, which was shot down because they could be tampered with and were not durable. So now we have decided on concrete walls,” the official said.

The Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), under the ministry of railways, has already provided drawings of concrete walls that can be built by zonal railways across its boundaries.

The Civil Engineering department had written to the various zonal railways last November proposing to provide wire meshes along the boundary line to restrict throwing of garbage and plastic bags.

The zones were asked to explore the feasibility of the idea and provide their feedback.

Sources said the chief engineers of zonal railways had rejected the proposal and conveyed to the board that wire meshes would offer little resistance for people who threw garbage on the tracks as they can be tampered with.

Most of them recommended building concrete walls.

“Concrete walls are more durable and long lasting and hopefully they will be a deterrent,” the official said.

On the basis of GATE 2017 score, Indian Railways will recruit for Project Engineer post at Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation Ltd (MVRC). Online registration for the recruitment has begun and candidates can apply till 27 January 2018. A total of 18 vacancies are open in the disciplines of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics & Telecommunication. ‘Though the project tenure is for 5 years, the initial appointment will be made for two years on contract basis with consolidated emoluments. The period of contract is extendable by three years with enhanced emoluments, depending upon the project requirements and performance of the candidate,’ clarifies the recruiting body.

Applicants must not be more than 30 years of age as on 27 December 2017.

Candidates must have qualified GATE 2017 and should have Bachelor Degree in the relevant engineering discipline with minimum 60 percent marks from recognized Govt. Universities or Institutions through full time regular courses only.

‘Engagement will be made on the basis of scores of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering-2017. Based on GATE-2017 score and Organizational requirement, candidates will be short listed for verification of documents and discussions.’

COMMENTSGATE 2018: Admit Cards Released, Download Now

Candidates shall have to send their application in the prescribed format and email it to gate2017mrvc@gmail.com along with scanned copies of GATE 2017 admit card, GATE 2017 score card, Engineering Graduation Marksheet, Engineering Graduation Certificate, Date of Birth Certificate/Age proof and Caste Certificate (If belonging to reserved community.)

Travelling in a private two bedroom, lounge, kitchen and toilet setup aboard a train could soon be a reality with the Railways exploring ways to facilitate such luxurious journeys.

It will come at a price though, which officials say could be “exorbitant”.
Railways is set to give non-railway personnel a taste of traveling in its saloons or inspection coaches, and is exploring ways to promote it.

In a first of its kind meeting between Chairman Railway Board Ashwani Lohani and travel and trade associations held in Delhi today, the issue of how the luxurious saloons could be promoted for the use of the general public who want to travel in style, was raised.

Mr Lohani conceded that there was a demand for this kind of travel and asked his officers to plan to make at least two such saloons available in Delhi for tourism purposes.

He also asked IRCTC to chalk out routes on which they can be made operational. Mr Lohani also asked the railways’ tourism and catering arm to come out with a brochure on such coaches.

Officials say that saloons or inspection cars, perfect for two families to travel, are adequately built to facilitate stay for up to five days.

They comprise two bedrooms, a lounge, a pantry, a toilet and a kitchen.

They are now most commonly used by senior railway officials to reach accident sites and remote railway lines not connected by road or air.

The closest to this kind of luxury that a common passenger can avail is the tourist car, which can be booked by large groups, but has amenities essential only for an overnight journey.

COMMENTSThe Railways has a total of 336 saloon cars across railway zones, among them 62 are air-conditioned. Railway officials, however, ruled out using more such saloon cars for works other than official.

“This does not mean that we will push all our saloon cars for this purpose. They are extremely significant for inspection purposes and cannot be spared. With these two, we just want to give the common man an experience of travelling in luxury,” said an official.