When Rly. officials become unreasonable, MP should approach the Minister Mysuru: A two-furlong stretch of a public road that has been blocked by the Railways near the Ring Road on the Hazrath Gumnam Shahwali Dargah Road at Bannimantap has led to a lot of inconvenience to truck and lorry owners. This also has increased the…
By Shadan Muneer, Freelance Journalist An Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) Officer, Aparna Garg took over as the Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), South Western Railway, Mysuru, in April 2018. She belongs to the 1987 batch of Civil Services and holds a Post-Graduate degree in Economics. She obtained her second Master’s degree in Transport Economics from…
Mysuru: Soon, Indian Railways will shift from manual filing system to e-office to bring transparency and efficiency in functioning. RailTel, a ‘Miniratna’ Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under Ministry of Railways, has taken up the work of implementing e-Office system for Indian Railways. E-Office project is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the National e-Governance Programme…
Mysuru: The Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest and biggest employers with 1.4 million people as its workforce. The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) conducts the world’s biggest online recruitment every year to absorb talented candidates. The exams are tough in their own way and there are different levels for the candidates to clear…
Mysuru: A massive recruitment drive will be conducted by the Railway Ministry to fill up 62,907 vacancies. More than 12,000 vacancies are earmarked for CCAAs (Course Completed Act Apprentices) trained in Railway Establishments only. 2,293 vacancies of South Western Railway are also included in the notification for erstwhile Group-D. This includes about 450 vacancies for…
Yesterday I was out of Mysuru leaving the city early morning and returning late night. As is my wont, I picked up Star of Mysore before hitting the sack. What a good news! ‘Train via Kodagu scrapped’. The sub-title said that the Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal would make an official announcement in Parliament today…
By K.B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief The Railway Department’s refusal to clear the blockage of the crucial two-furlong road in Bannimantap connecting Hazrath Gumnam Shahwali Dargah Road and Ring Road in city citing safety issues and its argument that trespassers cannot be permitted near the Railway track on that stretch is totally unacceptable. The Railway’s attitude regarding…
Mysuru: Indian Railways is enabling printing of key information on train tickets in local language. Beginning is being made with addition of Kannada on unreserved tickets issued through it’s UTS system. The facility has been started initially at Mysuru, Bengaluru and Hubballi Stations of South Western Railway (SWR) and the same will be extended to…
New Delhi: In a bid to revamp the cash-starved Indian Railways, the fares of 48 Express and Mail trains have been increased. According to the new time-table released on Nov. 1, these new trains have been upgraded to ‘superfast’ trains, simply by raising their designated average speed by 5 km. However, no additional amenities are…
Mysuru: Railway has decided for temporary augmentation of following trains with Second Class Sleeper Coaches to clear extra rush of passengers during Deepavali Festival:
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