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Railways may cut freight and passenger rates to boost slumped economy

There is helping hand for companies, as the railways may cut freight rates in a bid to boost economic growth, besides "rationalising" passenger fares

Indian Railways may rationalise fare, cut freight rates to boost economy

In September, the railways had announced several incentives to boost freight traffic

Restructuring will end departmentalism in Indian Railways: Piyush Goyal

The Railways will also now have just two departments -- Railway Protection Force and Medical Service Department -- with all its other departments coming under one Railway Management System

Cabinet approves merging of railway cadres, restructuring board: Report

Cabinet approves merging of railway cadres, to be now called Railway Management System: Sources.

IRCTC shares climb 4% as Railways revises prices of standard meals

The company has also signed an MoU with HRANI for listing the association's member hotels and their room rate inventory for sales on the IRCTC portal

Railway spends Rs 22,000 crore on salary, pensions; finances take a hit

The minister said railways spend a lot a funds on cleanliness, running suburban railway trains, gauge conversions and others

AC chair car emerges as operationally profitable service of railways: CAG

This, in effect justifies the introduction of AC chair car trains like the Vande Bharat Express and the Tejas Express, which do not offer sleeper-class services, it has added

Indian Railways operating ratio in 2017-18 was worst in 10 years: CAG

A measure of expenditure against revenue, the ratio shows how efficiently the railway is operating and how healthy its finances are.

Response to Railways' 'Give it Up' scheme 'not encouraging': CAG report

The initiative, started in 2017, encouraged senior citizens to give up their train fare concessions as part of the Railways' bid to increase revenues

How to transform Indian Railways

Indian Railways should immediately corporatise its production units and construction wing, segregate its passenger and freight businesses, and restructure the Railway Board

Railways saw least number of accidents in last two and half years: Goyal

"The last 2.5 years have been the safest in the history of Indian Railways. There have been least number of accidents in the last 2.5 years", the minister said

ICF to manufacture 740 coaches for Train 18 by 2021-22: Piyush Goyal

Two rakes already put into service; At present, the train runs on the New Delhi-Varanasi and New Delhi-Sri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra sectors

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The IPO is part of the government's ambitious disinvestment programme that targets raising Rs 1.05 trillion via this route in financial year 2019-20

Rs 3-trillion metro rail projects proposed for the next five years

The projects also include the 90-km RRTS line between Meerut and Delhi

Rlys replaces 1 litre Rail Neer bottles with 500 ml ones in Shatabdi trains

Passengers can get extra bottles, but they would have to pay for it

Railway Board clears Bengaluru suburban rail: State minister Suresh Angadi

Thanking Angadi, Bengluru South MP Tejasvi Surya tweeted, "Karnataka is lucky to have him (Angadi) handling the railway ministry."

Railways hails cab aggregators for parking slots; Uber, Ola not interested

Ride so far too costly, say the latter; attempt now to sweeten parking spot deal for the cab aggregators

Slowdown takes a Rs 4,000 crore toll on Indian Railways' earnings

The RTI revealed railways earned a revenue of Rs 13,398.92 crore from passenger fares in April-June quarter which dipped to Rs 13,243.81 crore in the July-September quarter

TRAI recommends 5Mhz spectrum to Railways for safety and security services

TRAI suggested that spectrum charges be levied on formula basis as prescribed by Telecom Department for Royalty Charges and Licence Fee for captive use

Railways running 2,500 additional services to cater to festival rush

Also, augmentation of coaches in regular trains is being done to ensure berth availability during festive rush, railways said