Timely detection of a ‘rail cut’ near Cantonment Railway Station in Bengaluru averted a possible train accident, South Western Railways said on Wednesday.

The cut was noticed on Tuesday when Marikuppam-KSR Bengaluru passenger train was about to chug into the station.

The train was detained for 36 minutes till the damaged portion was repaired.

According to a South Western Railway press release, head constable Thirumalesha and constables Chandramani and RS Sundo of Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) were on track patrol duty near Railway cantonment to prevent theft of passenger related offences when they noticed rail cut.

Immediately, information was passed on to the officers concerned. RPF Inspector along with senior section engineer, and station master rushed to the spot, it said.

Appreciating the promptness with which the fault was detected, South Western Railway General Manager AK Gupta announced Rs. 5,000 cash award to the RPF staff.

With an aim to boost services of the Indian Railways, the Cabinet on Wednesday gave nod to a productivity linked bonus (PLB) for Railway employees before the festival season. The productivity linked bonus or PLB would “service as an incentive and result in motivating a large number of Railway employees, to improve their productivity and ensure safety, speed and service for Railway customers,” an official statement said. The move is expected to benefit about 12.30 lakh Railway employees, the government said.

Here are top takeaways from the government statement on bonus for Railway employees:

Productivity-linked bonus equivalent to 78 days’ wages for the financial year 2016-17 to be given to eligible non-gazetted railway employees (excluding RPF/RPSF personnel)

A madness to click a selfie with a running train took the life of a polytechnic student and left another youngster seriously injured in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Tuesday, railway sources and witnesses said.

Rakesh Triguna, 23, and class nine student Suraj Mondal wanted to take the selfie about 1.5 kilometers from Kalyani station and upload it on social media.

They positioned themselves on the edge of the railway track with the Krishnanagar local just behind them.

But as they were clicking the selfie, the fast moving train rammed into them, said eye-witnesses.

Rakesh died on the spot, while Suraj was now fighting for his life in NRS Medical College and Hospital, railway sources said.

Rakesh hailed from Bihar, and used to stay at Anandanagar near Kalyani.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the country’s third Mahamana Express from his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi on September 22, senior railway officials said today.

On its maiden journey, the train will run from Vadodara in Gujarat to Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh after the PM launches it using a remote control, they said.

The Modi government had unveiled the first rake of the Mahamana Express as part of Railways’ Model Rake Project in 2016.

The Mahamana Express with plush interiors — built under the Make in India initiative — currently runs on two routes of Varanasi-New Delhi and Bhopal-Khajuraho.

The new weekly train will run from Varanasi every Friday and from Vadodara every Wednesday.

The 1,531-km journey between the two cities will take 27 hour 30 minutes at an average speed of 55.7 km/hr, ministry officials said.
It has stops at Bharuch and Surat in Gujarat; Amalner and Bhusawal in Maharashtra; Itarsi, Jabalpur, Katni and Satna in Madhya Pradesh; and Chheoki in Uttar Pradesh.

Some of the special features of the Mahamana trains include modular panels, ergonomically designed ladders for climbing to the upper berths, aesthetically appealing toilet modules with big mirror, platform washbasin, controlled discharged water tap, odour control system, exhaust fan, LED lights and dustbin inside the toilets.

The new train will have 18 coaches – one AC 1st class, two 2nd class AC, eight sleeper, four general, one pantry car and two guard brake vans. There is no AC-3 tier coach in the train.

The train has LED lighting across the coaches, special berth indicators-cum-night-light in reserved coaches to assist passengers boarding train at night.

Other facilities like fire extinguisher in all coaches, electrically operated chimney in pantry car and stainless steel panelling in luggage compartment have also been provided in the train.

‘Mahamana Express’ is named after former Hindu Mahasabha president Madan Mohan Malviya, also also addressed as ‘Mahamana’.

China and Nepal have agreed to start technical works to build a cross-border railway link via Tibet to boost connectivity, according to Nepalese Foreign Ministry.

This was decided during the recent visit of Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara to Beijing.

“Both sides have agreed to move forward technical works relating to construction of Nepal-China cross-border railway line,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement last week.

During the high-level talks in Beijing, Mr Mahara had requested China to forward the work relating to preparation of a Detailed Project Report for the construction of inter-country railway line giving it high priority, it said.

China, Nepal To Start Technical Works On Cross-Border Railway
This was decided during the recent visit of Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara to Beijing.
All India | Press Trust of India | Updated: September 19, 2017 00:51 IST

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China, Nepal To Start Technical Works On Cross-Border Railway

Nepal and China have agreed to move forward technical works (Representational Image)
Beijing/ Kathmandu: China and Nepal have agreed to start technical works to build a cross-border railway link via Tibet to boost connectivity, according to Nepalese Foreign Ministry.

This was decided during the recent visit of Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara to Beijing.

“Both sides have agreed to move forward technical works relating to construction of Nepal-China cross-border railway line,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement last week.

During the high-level talks in Beijing, Mr Mahara had requested China to forward the work relating to preparation of a Detailed Project Report for the construction of inter-country railway line giving it high priority, it said.

However, China’s state-run People’s Daily has claimed that during Mr Mahara’s visit to China early this month a deal has been struck to establish the rail link.

It said the rail link includes two lines: one connecting three of Nepal’s most important cities and two between China and Nepal.

The daily, however, did not identify the Nepalese cities. The Sino-Nepali railway, which passes through the Chinese border town of Zhangmu and connects with routes in Nepal, will be the first railway by which China enters South Asia, said Zhao Gancheng, director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.

“Although the railway connection between China and Nepal is intended to boost regional development and not for military purposes, the move will still probably irritate India,” he was quoted as saying by the daily – the ruling communist party’s official mouthpiece.

China last year agreed to consider building a railway into Nepal and to start a feasibility study for a free trade agreement with landlocked Nepal, which has been trying to lessen its dependence on its other big neighbour India.

Nepal also signed up to President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative which is opposed by India as it passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said he would meet Railways Minister Piyush Goyal to discuss the future of a proposed diesel engine factory in Bihar’s Chhapra. The project — billed as the country’s biggest Make in India project — may slip out of Bihar’s grasp, reports say, with the railway ministry toying with the idea of shelving the 3000-crore initiative that’s expected to roll out by October 2018.

The ministry is of the view that since electrification of railway tracks going ahead full steam, investment in diesel engines would not pay off in the coming years, reports said. Mr Kumar, who has handled the railways portfolio twice, disagrees.

Indian Railways is the third largest railway network in the world and full electrification of the 1.1 lakh-km tracks will take a long time, Mr Kumar argues. Till then, having fuel-efficient diesel engines will be cost-effective. Besides, once full electrification is done, India may even sell the diesel engines to neighbouring countries that are yet to modernize their railways, he said.

The factory at Marhaura, billed as the biggest Make in India project is expected to roll out 1,000 fuel efficient diesel-electric evolution series locomotives within 10 years. The emissions-compliant diesel locomotives would be a first in the country. Besides ushering in modern rail infrastructure, it would also generate at least 1,000 jobs in the state.

The project had been the brainchild of then railway minister Lalu Yadav, who wanted to build a state-of-the-art factory. But it went into cold storage and was later revived by the Narendra Modi government.

In 2015, the project was awarded to the US multinational General Electric, which has already built two locomotives in its US-based factories. The first engine has been shipped and it will arrive in India on October 10. Sources in the company said if all goes well, the factory in Patna may be commissioned much before its scheduled date.

A few months ago, Mr Goyal, who was then the Union Power Minister, also put a 4000 MW ultra-power project in Bihar’s Banka on hold, saying unless the state entered a power purchase agreement, the Centre would not sanction funds to start work. The project had been given to state in the Prime Minister’s package announced just before assembly elections in 2015.

In a major development, Indian Railways has decided to fill more than one lakh safety related jobs. The safety-related posts include loco running staff, driver, station master, guard, technology supervisor, control and yard staff, signal inspector and maintenance employees. A report published in the Allahabad edition of Hindi Daily Dainik Jagran said that the Railways has decided to recruit one lakh staff in the safety category, and these vacancies were on hold for a very long time.

What is important to note is the timing of these recruitment announcement.

On August 23, Kaifiyat Express derailed in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh injuring over 100 people.

At least 23 people were killed and over 72 injured after 14 coaches of the Utkal Express ran off the tracks in Uttar Pradesh on August 20.

The Indian railways had reported total of 13,929 train accidents from 1960 to 2016.

According to Mint, the Indian Railways had a vacancy of 1,22,763 in 2016 in safety category while it was 1,24,201 in 2015.

Indian Railways had reported a 2.1 lakh vacant posts in 2012, including 90,000 safety-related vacancies, crucial for train operation.

 

According to a study by NITI Aayog, since 2012, six out of every 10 rail accidents in the country have happened because of mistakes by or the negligence of railway staff.

Currently, according to Indian Railways’ response to a Parliament question, over 700,000 railways staff work on safety-related operations at the country’s largest employer.

Taking charge of Indian Railways after two back-to-back train accidents that, the newly Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani has also said that his focus will be safety.

The railway ministry has already initiated measures like inducting modern coaches, creating a safety fund as well as incorporating new technology to not only plug accidents due to derailments, but also to reduce casualties, a senior ministry official said on August 20.

A detailed presentation on safety was made at a meeting which was held at the presence of Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Coal on September 7, 2017 with members of Railway Board & Safety Directorate of Railway Board to comprehensively review Safety measures for train operations. In the meeting, the Minister emphasized that the safety is paramount and there cannot & should not be any compromise on this front.

The special focus of the meeting was to identify measures to reduce accidents due to derailments which has emerged as one of the major causes of Train accidents. Minister of Railways directed the Railway Board to ensure that all unmanned level crossings should be eliminated expeditiously on the entire Indian Railway network in a year’s time from now.

The Dainik Jagran report today said the Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) will fill half of the seats in group C and RRB and Railway Recruitment Cell (RRC) together will fill the seats from Group D vacant.

According to reports, the selected candidates after the RRB and RRC recruitment process will be appointed across 96 divisions of Indian railways which are located in 17 zones.

RRB Non-Technical Popular Category (NTPC) Stage II Computer Based Test (CBT) exams which were conducted on January 17, 18, and 19 across India this year and the whole process took Indian Railways, one of the largest employers in the world to a new mile stone.

A whopping 92 lakh candidates had applied for the jobs, of whom 2.73 lakh qualified the preliminary exam and were called for online test on January 17-19, a senior Railway Ministry official told Press Trust of India.

RailTel Corporation of India Limited, a Mini-Ratna (Category-I) Public Sector Undertaking under Ministry of Railways will recruit for the posts of Assistant Engineers and Senior Managers. Candidates should note that recruitment to the posts will be on contract basis for for implementation of National Optic Fiber Network (NOFN) project covering the State of Gujarat. Out of the total 45 vacancies 38 are for Assistant Engineer post. ‘The period of contract shall be for two years, which may further be extended based on mutual consent and requirement.’ Official notification has been released at the website railtelindia.com.

The last date for submission of application is 27 September 2017 (12 noon).

Eligibility Criteria for Assistant Engineer post

Candidates with Diploma and 3 years of work experience
MCA/ BE/ B.Tech/ B.Sc (Engineering) and 1 year of work experience

The recent job notification released by Railway Recruitment Cell (RRC) Jaipur, has stirred an excitement among government job aspirants. The news carried by various job portals claims that RRC Jaipur has started recruitment process for a total of 307 vacancies. The recruitment is infact a GDCE notification. RRC Jaipur will conduct General Departmental Competitive Examination (GDCE) 2017 for recruitment to the posts of staff nurse, junior engineer, station master, goods guard, pharmacist, stenographer, commercial clerk, ticket examiner, technician, assistant loco pilot and clerk cum typist.

The notification, which has been assumed to be a direct recruitment alert issued by Indian Railways, is actually open for those candidates who are engaged in North Western Railways (Group C) and Eastern railways (Group D). Concerned eligible candidates can submit their applications online before 1700 hours of 12 October 2017.

Railway job aspirants, need not apply for the recruitment. Moreover job seekers are suggested to go through the recruitment notifications released by organisations properly before applying in order to avoid the confusion between direct recruitment and deputation jobs.

Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) notify job advertisements (and declare the results, as well) on the official websites (region wise web portals), Employment News (job journal of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India). Candidates can regularly check these for timely updates on railway recruitment.
Considered to be one of the largest functioning bodies in the country, a job in the Indian Railways is one of the most sought after among job aspirants’.