2000 railway stations equipped with free wifi

RailTel, a railway PSU, started providing free wifi services at Indian railway stations to turn them into a platform for digital inclusion.

Bhopal: Committee writes to Goyal seeking arrangement for clearing rush during Ijtema

It also urged the ministry to arrange a 24-hour active booking office on November 25 and 26 at the Bhopal railway station.

In July last year, JSPL had received from railways an order of about one lakh tonne rails, which was later extended by over 26 lakh.

Out of these 141 trains, Flexi fare is applicable in 32 trains for nine months only.

Network will bring India closer to neighbours in Asean and Bimstec groupings.

Speaking at the annual Martyrs' Day rally, she asserted that 'nothing, however, could prevent her supporters from attending the programme'.

As a pilot launch, it would be carried out at 1,600 railway station equipped with Wi-Fi.

The first train will be the Delhi-Varanasi Kashi Vishwanath Express to be flagged off by Ministers Harsh Vardhan and Suresh Angadi.

Goyal said track kilometre grew from 77,609 km to 89,919 km from 1950-2014 and rose to 1,23,236 km in the past five years.

'It is for the first time in nearly 18 years that the Lower House (Lok Sabha) sat for this long,' Joshi said.