South Eastern Railway observed International Level Crossing Awareness Day today (07.05.2013) by organizing a Safety Awareness Programme at Demari Higher Secondary School, Tamluk, Purba Medinipur. Shri N. Kashinath, Chief Safety Officer, South Eastern Railway inaugurated the programme in presence of Shri P.K.Mondal, Addl. Divisional Railway Manager, Kharagpur and other senior railway officers. The main objective of the programme is to create awareness among the people, specially the students about the safety rules to be followed while crossing a manned or unmanned level crossing. About 700 students attended this Rail Safety Awareness Programme at Demari Higher Secondary School, Tamluk today.Tamluk was chosen as the main venue of this Safety Awareness Campaigndue to the presence of large number of level crossings in the area.Folk songs, street play, slide show, magic show etc. were organized to educate the students and road users about the safety rules to be observed at level crossings with...
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a view to prevent accidents. Counselling sessions were also organized and leaflets were distributed among the students to make them aware of the different provisions of Indian Railways Act, Motor Vehicles Act and Safety Rules.

Shri N. Kashinath, Chief Safety Officer, South Eastern Railway later speaking to media persons stated that at present there are altogether 1374 level crossings in S.E.Railway’s jurisdiction out of which 558 are manned and 816 are unmanned. Shri Kashinath stated that it has been planned to eliminate all the unmanned level crossings in a phased manner. This will be done through Manning of level crossing gates, Provision of Limited Height Subways, Diversion, Provision of Road Over Bridges and Closure.

Apart from Tamluk, International Level Crossing Awareness Day was also observed at other places of Kharagpur Division as well as Adra, Chakradharpur and Ranchi Divisions of SER. It may be mentioned here that South Eastern Railway organises Safety Awareness Campaign throughout the year by issuing of advertisements in Print and Electronic Media, Exhibitions, Counselling Road Users, SMS campaign etc. with a view to preventaccidents.

Kolkata, 21st May, 2013:-

“Anti-Terrorism Day” was observed at SER Headquarters, Garden Reach, this morning.

Shri A.K.Verma, General Manager, South Eastern Railway administered the pledge to all officers and staff to uphold and promote peace, social harmony and understanding among all fellow human beings and fight the forces of disruption threatening human lives and values.
Shri O.P. Choube, Addl. General Manager, South Eastern Railway, Shri Manoj Pande, Chief Personnel Officer, Shri G.K.Mohanty, Chief Operations Manager, Shri Ranjan Tiwari, FA&CAO, Shri A.K.Singh, Chief Security Commissioner, Dr. A. Roy, Chief Medical Director and other senior officers and staff of this railway were also present at...
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the oath taking ceremony.

Anti-Terrorism Day was also observed at all Divisional Offices of South Eastern Railway i.e. Kharagpur, Adra, Chakradharpur and Ranchi.

For the convenience of the rail passengers and to increase the passenger carrying capacity to clear extra rush, Railway has decided to augment the 12521/12522 Barauni Jn- Ernakulam Jn- Barauni Jn Raptisagar Express, 15203/15204 Barauni- lucknow- Barauni Express, 15279/15280 Adarsh Nagar Delhi- Saharsa Jn- Adarsh Nagar Delhi Poorabiya Express, 15273/15274 Delhi Jn-Raxaul Jn- Delhi Jn Satyagrah Express, 12561/12562 New Delhi- Darbhanga Jn- New Delhi Swatantrata Sainani Express, 15269/15270Muzaffarpur Jn- Ahmedabad Jn- Muzaffarpur JnJansadharan Express, 12355/12356 Rajender Nagar Bihar- Jammu Tawi- Rajender Nagar Bihar Archana Express, 12391/12392 New Delhi- Rajgir- New Delhi Shramjeevi Express and 12569/12570 Jaynagar- Anand Vihar- Jaynagar Garib Rath Express Trains o­n permanent basis as per the under-mentioned programme:
The 12521/12522 Barauni Jn- Ernakulam Jn- Barauni Jn Rapitsagar Express Train has been augmented by o­ne Additional Sleeper Class Coach (total 24...
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coaches) with immediate effect when departing from Barauni Jn & from 24.05.2013 when departing from Ernakulam Jn. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.
The 15203/15204 Barauni Jn- lucknow- Barauni Jn Express Train has been augmented by o­ne Additional Sleeper Class and Four Additional General Class Coaches (total 19 coaches) with immediate effect when departing from both sides. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.
The 15279/15280 Adarsh Nagar Delhi- Saharsa Jn- Adarsh Nagar Delhi Poorabiya Express Train will be augmented by Two Additional Sleeper Class and Two Additional General Class Coaches (total 24 coaches) from 23.05.2013 when departing from Saharsa Jn & from 24.05.2013 when departing from Adarsh Nagar Delhi. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.
The 15273/15274 Delhi Jn-Raxaul Jn- Delhi Jn Satyagrah Express Train has been augmented by o­ne Additional Sleeper Class Coach (total 21 coaches) with immediate effect when departing from both sides. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.
The 12561/12562 New Delhi- Darbhanga Jn- New Delhi Swatantrata Sainani Express Train has been augmented by o­ne Additional Sleeper Class Coach (total 24 coaches) with immediate effect when departing from both sides. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.
The 15269/15270Muzaffarpur Jn- Ahmedabad Jn- Muzaffarpur JnJansadharan Express Train will be augmented by Four Additional General Class Coaches (total 22 coaches) from 23.05.2013 when departing from Muzaffarpur Jn & from 26.05.2013 when departing from Ahmedabad Jn. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.
The 12355/12356 Rajender Nagar Bihar- Jammu Tawi- Rajender Nagar Bihar Archana Express Train has been augmented by o­ne Additional Sleeper Class Coach (total 24 coaches) with immediate effect when departing from Rajender Nagar Bihar & from 22.05.2013 when departing from Jammu Tawi. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.
The 12391/12392 New Delhi- Rajgir- New Delhi Shramjeevi Express Train has been augmented by o­ne Additional Sleeper Class Coach (total 24 coaches) with immediate effect from both sides. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.
The 12569/12570 Jaynagar- Anand Vihar- Jaynagar Garib Rath Express Train hasl been augmented by Two Additional AC Three Tier Coaches (total 20 coaches) with immediate effect from both sides. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.

Delhi Metro has compiled a list of all Metro stations nearest to the examination centers of the Civil service (Preliminary) Examination scheduled to be held on 26th May, 2013.There are a total of 356 centers in Delhi for this year’s Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination. The list taken out by Delhi Metro shows the nearest Metro stations to all 356 examination centers and the also the distance between the examination center and the Metro station. This information is available on DMRC’s official website www.delhimetrorail.com.Some of the important stations near the examination centers include Rajiv Chowk, Central Secretariat, Jor Bagh, AIIMS, Lajpat Nagar, Tuklagabad, Shahdara, Tilak Nagar, Dwarka Sec-12, Janak Puri West, Pitam Pura, Pachim Vihar West, Netaji Subhash Place, G.T.B. Nagar, Dilshad Garden etc.This information will be of great help to all the candidates appearing for the Preliminary Examination in Delhi as this will help them to plan their journey using...
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the Metro so that they can reach their exam centers on time.The timing of the examination is 9.30 am to 11.30 am for the forenoon session and 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm for the afternoon session. The Delhi Metro operates from 6 am to 11 pm on all days.

Gorakhpur: The city railway station has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, for sometime now, with cases of heist and pushing travellers off the coaches coming to light. The GRP and the RPF tasked with the security of the passengers seem to have put their hands up, complaining of  lack of manpower.   However, strangely enough, the alleged manpower crunch does not appear to be an issue, when it comes to extorting money from innocent passengers, as a covert operation by dainikbhaskar.com has revealed. Indeed on several occasions, it has been found that where only 4 to 5 policemen should ordinarily be doing duty, over a dozen are present...the attraction of extorting money being too strong to ignore and even the scorching May heat failing to daunt them.   If the same commitment is shown for the security of the travellers, train journeys would probably be much...
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safer.

An additional air-conditioned coach has now been introduced for exclusive use of central paramilitary personnel in four Express trains.The AC-III tier coaches will have 64 seats each and they have been authorised to four trains- Awadh-Assam Express (Guwahati-Lalgarh), Lal Quila Express (Kolkata-Delhi), Kolkata-Jammu Tawi Express (Kolkata-Jammu) and Andaman Express (Chennai Central-Jammu)- symbolising all the four corners of the country."All the trains will have one additional AC three tier coach for central police forces personnel for a period of one year. This will greatly help in the movement of troops who are going for official duties or on leave," a senior paramilitary official said.Troops of BSF, CRPF, CISF, SSB, ITBP and NSG will be eligible to avail this benefit after booking tickets through the official booking system put in place, the official said.The decision to provide this benefit to the troopers, deployed for internal security duties across the country, was jointly...
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taken by the Union Home and Railway ministries recently.The Border Security Force (BSF) has been appointed as the nodal agency in this regard.

NEW DELHI: Candidates appearing for the Civil Services Preliminary Examination have got a helping hand from Delhi Metro which has compiled a list of stations nearest to the 356 exam centres in the national capital.The list compiled by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation shows the nearest Metro stations to all examination centres in Delhi for this year's Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination and also the distance between the centre and the Metro station.This information is available on DMRC's official website www.delhimetrorail.com."Delhi Metro has compiled a list of all Metro stations nearest to the examination centres of the Civil service (Preliminary) Examination scheduled to be held on May 26," a DMRC spokesperson said.Some of the important stations near the examination centres are Rajiv Chowk, Central Secretariat, Jor Bagh, AIIMS, Lajpat Nagar, Tuklagabad, Shahdara, Tilak Nagar, Dwarka Sec-12, Janak Puri West, Pitam Pura, Paschim Vihar West, Netaji Subhash Place, GTB Nagar, Dilshad Garden etc."This...
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information will be of great help to all candidates appearing for the preliminary examination in Delhi as this will help them plan their journey using the Metro so that they can reach their exam centres on time," the spokesperson said.The timing of the examination is 9.30 AM to 11.30 AM for the forenoon session and 2.30 PM to 4.30 PM for the afternoon session. The Delhi Metro operates from 6 AM to 11 PM on all days.

The company has garnered three large value projects each of around Rs 200 crore from Railways in the second half of the last year.
Kalindee Rail Nirman (Engineers) has rallied 12% to Rs 56, extending its previous day’s 3% gain, after the company said it has garnered three large value projects each of around Rs 200 crore from Railways in the second half of the last year.“The company's bid for Rs 246 crore with Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, New Delhi under Ministry of Railways, New Delhi has been successful due to being lowest bidder,” Kalindee Rail Nirman said in a statement.The company has also bagged a high value order of Rs 166 crore from Kolkata Metro. Presently order position in the company is highly comfortable, it added.The stock opened at Rs 50 and hit a high of Rs 56.20 on BSE....
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A combined 899,876 shares changed hands on the counter so far on BSE and NSE.

AURANGABAD: Buoyed by the successful installation of 48 bio-toilets on tow long-distance trains, the South Central Railway (SCR) has decided to replace the existing excreta disposal systems in trains such as Secunderabad-Manmad Ajantha Express that passes through Nizambad, Nanded, Aurangabad and Manmad.In January this year, the SCR had installed bio-toilets on two of its trains, Kacheguda-Bangalore Express and HussainSagar Hyderabad-Mumbai Express, at Rs 80,000 each. Satisfied by the results, the SCR authorities have decided to go a step ahead and install the bio-toilets on some more trains.The SCR is viewing the bio-toilets as a solution to the hazards of the conventional ones fitted in the trains, as the facility, by allowing night soil to fall on the tracks, cause unhygienic conditions and corrosion to the rails and coach fittings. This, in turn, endangers safety. The passengers use the toilets while the trains are on platforms and the tracks get scattered...
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with excreta, creating unpleasant situation for those on the platforms.A senior railway official said maintaining cleanliness at railway stations, especially the tracks, is a daunting task for the railways in the face of the ban on the manual scavengering and track maintenance staff also has to face difficulties in maintaining the tracks.The bio-toilets, jointly developed by Railway Research Design and Standard Organisation and Defence Research Development Establishment, have six compartments each and inoculums (bacteria) are used to decompose the night soil.
The night soil from commode enters the bio-tank, where the inoculums are stored, and get decomposed by the bacteria. Following this the decomposed substance enter a chlorine-filled tank, where it further gets treated. The final output is just water and gas. The bio-toilets with provision to replenish inoculum and chlorine are making the facility more preferable and easy to maintain.
Railway officials maintained that the SCR was set to fit 200 more bio-toilets on three more trains, including Ajantha Express that passes through the Marathwada region, in a couple of months.
An official said with simple design, less maintenance and easier fitment procedure, the eco-friendly bio-toilets will ensure zero discharge of night soil on the ground. "The arrangement will ensure clean environment and hygienic conditions of the railway stations and the tracks," the official added.