Mr Vinay Mittal took over as the new General of South Eastern Indian Railways at its headquarters in Kolkata today. Before joining South Eastern Indian Railways he was the General Manager of the North-Western South Eastern headqartered at Jaipur. Mr Mittal is an officer of Indian Railways Traffic Service. He has worked in various capacities [...]

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Indian Railway passengers need not book a new ticket if they have to advance or postpone their journey. Instead they can get the date changed on the ticket already booked by them. The Indian Railway Reservation scheme of Railways to advance or postpone a train journey on a booked ticket has been existing for long [...]

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For the first time Indian Railways has extended the facility of AC-3 tier travel pass for the family of the lowest grade employees of the Indian Railways like the gangmen, khalashis, etc. Employees of Group D in the Indian railways were earlier not entitled for travel pass in AC compartments. Revised entitlement of travel on [...]

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Senior citizens and women passengers travelling on the Indian Railways will soon be able to book luggage trolleys in advance by calling up a designated telephone number. Once they arrive at the station a uniformed Rail Yatri Sevak holding a placard with the trolley number will provide them the service for a price. The facility [...]

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The Indian Railways or the Indian train service is the most popular way of traveling almost anywhere in India. The Indian Railways serve millions of commuters on a daily basis. Many of them book their tickets well in advance. This is why the Indian Railways have a really efficient Indian train enquiry service. This Indian [...]

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Indian Railways is the highest employer in the world in the public sector. There are more than a hundred thousand employees who are associated with Indian Railways. At present, the Indian Railways has trains running to almost all the towns across the country. The tracks which are present are 70 percent laid down by the [...]

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With mounting complaints regarding quality of food served and cartels holding sway over the catering business, the ministry of railways on Friday shifted the blame on its wholly-owned subsidiary Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) for the mess in catering management in trains and stations to justify the move of introducing a new catering [...]

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Users logging on to the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) website to book train tickets in the past few days were dismayed as the servers were down. A few ticketing agents claimed that it became tedious to book etickets and passengers complained of excess money being debited while making payments. Suresh, a [...]

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Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC), which also provides online passenger reservation system, has launched a beta version of the revamped site, which is claimed to be more user-friendly and efficient. The beta version of the new site is available at https://www.irctc.co.in/cgi-bin/beta.dll/irctc/services/home.do# The new interface is intended to increase the number of visitors [...]

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Indian Rail Catering and Tour Company (IRCTC) has been appointed as the official ticketing agency for CWG 2010 in consortium with Broad Vision  Systems and TicketPro. IRCTC will provide tickets through the Internet, call centres and a network of retail outlets. Each ticket holder can travel free of charge by Delhi Metro trains and DTC [...]

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