Indian Railways: Facilities & Actions

Most preferable mode of traveling by Indians is Railways due to comfort and economical, but still it needs control on to misuse of its schemes and upgradation of facilities to the travelers. Just yesterday three news related to the welfare of the railway passengers hit the newspapers. Below is brief glimpse of all the stories for the benefits of those fellow Indians which uses Railways but have not information about it –

• Union railway Minister Mukand Rai while responding on to the letter of Avinash Rai Khanna M.P.(Rajya Sabha) coded that Railway Ministry will soon start giving facility of internet( wi- fi) on to selected routs of railways under pilot project. As per information Mr. Khanna had written letter to Railways on 22^nd December,2011 to give wi-fi facility on Superfast Trains, while responding to the same letter above coded  was informed to Mr. Khanna  by railways ministry through letter dated 19 June and soon passengers will be able to use internet while on move. 
•  IRCT which provide services’ to the Indians for booking online Railways Tickets, to tighten the noose of problems face by passengers for booking online tickets, has block half a million email id’s whom they found suspicious as per norms, along with it as per information almost forty four thousand more email id’s were blocked which they consider of agents and were dubious in nature.
• Tightening its grip on to Tatkal Reservation of Railways booking, Indian Railways is going to come up with new plan which will bar Agents to take benefits and misuse tatkal reservations. As per words of Northern Railways GM Mr. Vijay Gupta under new plan reservation counters will equipped with CCTV’s through it there will be round the clock eyes on to booking clerks and agents. Time of opening Tatkal Reservation bookings will be 10a.m. onwards till 12 noon and will have separate window, as per new norms from 8 a.m. onwards till 12 noon Agents won’t allow to book tickets, and it will mandatory to show the proof of identity while collecting ticket of anyone and from one email id maximum three tickets can be book, mobile phone will not work on booking windows, all these initiatives will comes into force across country from coming 10^th July.

Above coded news are very positive and boosting for the Railways passengers and hopefully will help them to get rid on to the problems created by agents and phony email id’s whenever they try to book online railways tickets in the past.