-The Business Standard For some people, travelling by train to their village 1,400 km away is a journey through hell. These are people who travel unreserved. Their suffering is all the more traumatic for being symbolic of the apathy of those who run the trains and the country. Saraswati Mondal, an illiterate domestic worker in Delhi, going to Murshidabad by Kalka Mail goes to New Delhi station, walks into a crowd of...
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Rural job scheme to help railways expand
-The Business Standard railway engineers would help gram panchayats in developing estimates of the work and in training workers Union railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal today announced a partnership between Indian railways and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in his budget speech. "I thank (Minister of Rural Development) Jairam Ramesh for agreeing to the railways' request to partner in some of the rail-related activities under MGNREGS," he said. Bansal...
More »IRCTC fined Rs 10 lakh for selling soft drinks above maximum retail price
-PTI Indian railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has been slapped with a fine of Rs 10 lakh by a consumer forum here for selling soft drinks above the maximum retail price (MRP) to two customers. The New Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum imposed "punitive compensation" of Rs 5 lakh each in two separate cases against IRCTC, a subsidiary of Indian railways, and said being a government corporation, "it is not...
More »rail Budget 2013: Measures that will cheer middle class
-The Times of India railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Tuesday announced many initiatives in his rail Budget 2013 speech that will bring cheer to middle-income passengers. From better e-ticketing facilities to free wi-fi on select trains, the railway Budget will lead to implementation of many passenger friendly measures. Here is a look at some of them: 1) e-ticketing through mobile phones. Project of SMS alerts to passengers providing updates on reservation status. In...
More »Keeping polls in mind, state budgets offer sops to farmers
-The Business Standard State budgets are raining sops to pull farmers' votes With elections staring at them, several state governments are suddenly waking up to the demands of farmers and offering sops to the agriculture sector in their budgets, even as farmer organisations say the state and Central governments should do more. Karnataka, which pioneered the trend of having a separate agriculture budget--similar to the railway budget at the Centre — brought...
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