According to the plan, Namo Bharat train will be seen running between short distances like Lucknow to Kanpur and Meerut-Saharanpur. These trains will be given stoppage at all major stations. These trains will be equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and all AC bogies will be installed in them. This will make it easier for passengers to travel.

Rapid growth in UP rail network

While giving information about Uttar Pradesh, the Railway Minister said that the Railway Ministry has made a provision of Rs 19858 crore for this budget. Along with this, an investment of Rs 1.04 thousand crore is also being made in the state. He said that the development of double, triple lines and Amrit Bharat stations is also being done rapidly in the state.

Work is being done to increase rail connectivity in UP. Ashwini Vaishnav said that in the last ten years, 5200 km of new lines have been laid in UP. Not only this, 157 stations are being developed under the Amrit Bharat Yojana. On the expansion of railways in the state, he said that 14 Vande Bharat trains are passing through 20 districts in UP. During this, the Railway Minister also praised UP CM Yogi and said that the UP Chief Minister is also fully supporting in expanding the rail network.

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Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav reached the New Railway Station on Tuesday morning. During this, he interacted with auto rickshaw drivers and porters, heard their grievances and promised solutions to improve their working conditions. Union Minister Vaishnav garlanded the porters and auto rickshaw drivers. The Railway Minister assured the auto rickshaw drivers that their concerns would be addressed. Vaishnav promised to halve the parking fee and build a rest house at the station to provide shelter during harsh winters and monsoons.

Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav also made the announcement while discussing with the auto drivers present at the railway station. The Railway Minister said, if auto drivers face any kind of problem, they can contact on 9717633061. Their problem will be resolved on this number. Apart from this, the Railway Minister has also announced a big relief in parking charges at Delhi Railway Station. Earlier the fee for taxi drivers was Rs 1200, but now they will have to pay Rs 400, while auto drivers had to pay Rs 700 earlier, but now they will have to pay only Rs 200.

The Railway Minister made some more important announcements for the convenience of passengers and employees. He said that rest houses will be built to avoid cold and rain. Also, more than 50 rest rooms will be built for railway porters. Apart from this, medical facilities will be improved and health services will be provided under the Ayushman Bharat scheme. Education facilities will also be provided for the children of employees in railway schools. The Railway Minister said that both the porters and passengers working at the railway station will be taken care of equally. He said that these changes and facilities have been made to improve their work so that everyone gets more facilities and they can provide their services without any hassle.

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Vande Bharat Train: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav shared the video

Vande Bharat (Sleeper) testing at 180 kmph pic.twitter.com/ruVaR3NNOt

— Ashwini Vaishnaw (@AshwiniVaishnaw) January 2, 2025

Union Railway Minister, Ashwini Vaishnav, while sharing a video of the successful trial run in Kota division on social media platform X, mentioned speed in his post. In the video, a glass almost filled with water is seen next to a mobile placed on a flat surface inside the Vande Bharat sleeper train. It can be seen in the video that as the train picks up speed of 180 kmph, the level of water in the glass remains constant.

Vande Bharat Train: Achieves speed of 180 km/h between Kota and Laban

On Thursday, the train achieved a speed of 180 km/h during a 30 km long run between Kota and Laban in Bundi district of Rajasthan. On the first day of January 1, 2025, during a 40 km long trial run between Rohal Khurd and Kota, the Vande Bharat sleeper train touched a speed of 180 km/h. On the same day, speeds of 170 km/h and 160 km/h were achieved on the Kota-Nagda and Rohal Khurd-Chowmahala sections. These trials will continue till the month of January under the supervision of RDSO, Lucknow.

Vande Bharat Train: Facilities like automatic doors, comfortable berths, Wi-Fi

Vande Bharat sleeper trains have been designed with features like automatic doors, extremely comfortable berths, on-board Wi-Fi and aircraft-like design. The biggest task before the railways was to install sleeping seats (berths) in the train and ensure that the train could run smoothly even when fully loaded with passengers and luggage. While doing all this, the train also had to reach a speed of 180 kmph, only then it could be made a Vande Bharat sleeper train.

Vande Bharat Train: Vande Bharat Express train will run at a faster speed than Rajdhani

If the remaining trials of Vande Bharat are successful, it is expected that passengers will get a great rail travel experience in Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Delhi to Mumbai, Howrah to Chennai and other long distance journeys. Currently, the average speed of a train to travel from Mumbai to Delhi is 90 kmph. A train like Tejas Rajdhani Express, which is the fastest among all Rajdhani trains, can run at a maximum speed of 140 kmph. But Vande Bharat Sleeper train will be able to run at a speed of 180 kmph, which will take even less time.

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In this, a Vande Bharat train will be seen running from New Delhi to Ajmer via Jaipur. After the commencement of this train, passengers will reach their destination in less time. Earlier there were reports that Vande Bharat would run from Delhi to Jaipur, but according to what is now coming to the fore, it will run from Delhi to Ajmer and Jaipur will be one of its stoppages.

Recently, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav had expressed the hope of starting the Vande Bharat train before April 10. North Western Railway is also hopeful that the Vande Bharat train will start running on the tracks from the first week of April. The English website Times of India has published a news in this regard. It mentions a new proposal in which it has been said that the Vande Bharat train will run between Ajmer and New Delhi via Jaipur. Information about the route and timing of this train has also come to the fore.

Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer Vande Bharat Express Route and Timings

Everyone wants to know the route and time-table of Vande Bharat Express starting from Delhi to Ajmer in the coming days. So let’s give you information about this. Actually, according to the news going on, this train will run six days a week. This train is likely to run on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This means that Vande Bharat train can be seen on the track from Delhi to Ajmer via Jaipur on the remaining days of the week except Wednesday.

On the other hand, in terms of timing, the Ajmer to New Delhi Vande Bharat train will start from Ajmer in Rajasthan at 6.10 am and then reach Delhi at 12.15 pm. This train will take about 6 hours between the two cities. In between, stoppages have been made for Vande Bharat at Jaipur, Alwar, Gurugram.

Delhi-Jaipur Vande Bharat Express Timings

On the same day evening, the Vande Bharat train will again run from New Delhi at 6.10 and will reach Ajmer at 12.15. During this also it will take about six hours. How long will the train take to reach Jaipur from Delhi? If this question is coming in your mind then the train will reach here at 10.20. According to this, it is likely to take four hours and 10 minutes between New Delhi and Jaipur. The average speed of the train can be 72.74 kilometers per hour.

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A committee of Parliament has urged the Ministry of Railways to consider reinstating the exemption given to senior citizens in train fare. In this, there has been a demand to restore the relaxation of ticket fare to senior citizens in sleeper class, 3rd AC.

If the Ministry of Railways considers this appeal, then senior citizens can get exemption once again. However, in December 2022, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav made it clear that the discount on ticket fare cannot be restored at present. He told the reason behind this that the pension and salary bill of the Railways is very high. The burden of expenditure on Railways is more than before.

53 percent discount was available

According to the information received from the Ministry of Railways, all the citizens traveling in the train get an average discount of 53 percent on the fare. Along with this, Divyangjans, students and patients get many types of concessions apart from this exemption. Senior citizens were getting such exemption earlier also, but it was withdrawn in March 2020 during the Corona epidemic. Now there is a demand to restore it again.

Discounts were available in all trains

According to the report, the committee noted that the Indian Railways used to give 40 per cent concession in fares to men who were 60 years of age or above and 50 per cent concession to women if the minimum age was 58 years . Let us tell you that senior citizens were getting these concessions in rail tickets in all Mail, Express, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto trains. The Railways withdrew this discount on train ticket fare during the Corona period.

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The Ministry of Railways said in the Rajya Sabha that the Standing Committee has advised to review and consider the concession to senior citizens at least in sleeper and 3 AC. Parliamentary panel has recommended that concession on railway tickets to senior citizens should be restored.

The Railway Minister told the Rajya Sabha on Friday that the Indian Railways subsidized Rs 59,837 crore on passenger tickets in 2019-20, which is an average concession of about 53% for each person traveling.

There may be a change in the rules, the Railway Board said that it is planning to give concessions to senior citizens, in which the idea is to reduce the cost of these concessions while maintaining the subsidy for senior citizens. As of now, no terms and conditions have been decided yet.

53 percent discount is available

According to the information received from the Ministry of Railways, all the citizens traveling in the train get an average discount of 53 percent on the fare. Along with this, Divyangjans, students and patients get many types of concessions apart from this exemption.

In which class will the discount be given?

In the Rajya Sabha, the Railway Minister was asked about the Railway Concession, whether the Railways will again give the facility of discount on train tickets. On this, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has said that in 2019-20, Railways has given a subsidy of Rs 59,837 crore on passenger tickets. Apart from this, the Standing Committee attached to the Parliament has suggested giving concession in train tickets to senior citizens traveling in sleeper and third AC.

In response to another question by BJP MP Sushil Modi on waiver of Rs 670 crore subsidy , the minister informed that the revenue on account of concession in passenger fares to senior citizens during 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 is around Rs 1,491 crore. , was Rs 1,636 crore and Rs 1,667. In 2017-18, a subsidy of Rs 670 crore was waived off for senior citizens in non-AC class trains, while Rs 820 crore was spent for subsidy in AC class.

In 2018-19, Rs 714 crore was spent on these concessions in non-AC classes and Rs 921 crore in AC classes. In 2019-20, there was a discount of Rs 701 crore for non AC class, while it was Rs 965 crore for AC class.

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For this, Indian Railways has decided to increase its ticket capacity. Now the Railways is considering increasing the ticket capacity per minute from 25,000 to 2.25 lakh. Along with this, there is a plan to increase the capacity of Railway Inquiry from 4 lakh to 40 lakh.

Will emphasize on railway infrastructure

Talking to the media on Friday, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that in the financial year 2023-24, the emphasis will be on railway infrastructure. A total of 7,000 km of new railway tracks will be laid this year. Along with this, ‘Jan Suvidha’ stores will be opened at a total of 2,000 railway stations which will operate 24 hours.

Significantly, in this financial year, the work of laying up to 4,500 kilometers of tracks has been done so far. Along with this, he said that the aim of the Railways is that every railway passenger can get confirmed tickets. For this, Railways has decided to increase its ticket capacity from 25,000 to 2.25 lakh. Along with this, there is a target to increase the capacity of Railway Inquiry from 4 lakh to 40 lakh.

Railways got an allocation of Rs 2.40 lakh crore in the budget

In the budget 2023 presented on February 1, 2023, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has given a big gift to the Railways. The biggest ever allocation has been made to Railways. The government wants to modernize it by spending Rs 2.40 lakh crore on the railways. This money will be spent on the modernization, service and security of the railways.

Along with this, the aim of the Railways is to construct more and more modern railway stations. Along with this, the number of luxury and semi high speed trains should be increased in the country. For this, Railways is paying special attention to increasing the number of Vande Bharat trains.

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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has given a lot of information about this. Railway is going to restore the concession given to senior citizens (Railway Concession to Senior Citizen). Along with this, talk is going on about the change in the eligibility criteria as well.

Railway Minister issued a statement Let us tell you that before Corona, the government had stopped the discount given to senior citizens in the train, but a statement has been issued by the Railway Minister regarding its restoration. Giving information, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has said that at present there is no plan to restore this exemption.

Preparations are being made to change the age limit as well, along with this news is coming that the Railway Board is planning to change the age limit of senior citizens, after which the passengers will get relaxation according to the category. At the same time, earlier the Railway Department used to give concessions to all categories of people.

Giving further information, the Railway Minister has said that a subsidy of Rs 59,000 crore has been given for passenger services, which is bigger than the annual budget of many states. At the same time, the annual pension bill of the Railways is about Rs 60,000 crore. Apart from this, the salary bill is Rs 97,000 crore while Rs 40,000 crore is being spent on fuel.

Let us tell you that before the Corona epidemic, women of 58 years and above and men of 60 years and above were given concessions by the Railways. Women used to get 50 per cent discount and men got 40 per cent discount on all categories of tickets.

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After this statement of Ashwini Vaishnav, train fares are expected to be increased in the coming times. In the Lok Sabha, the Railway Minister was asked on re-introducing the concession on train fare to senior citizens before Covid-19. In response to this question, the Railway Minister said that at present 55 percent concession is being given to every passenger traveling by trail.

Subsidy of Rs 59000 crore was given.

He told that at present, the per km expenditure of railways on the fare of a passenger is around Rs 1.16. While the Railways charges only 45 to 48 Paise per km for this. Giving last year’s figures, he said that a subsidy of Rs 59,000 crore has been given by the Railways on passenger fare. He said that the railways is constantly working on passenger facilities. The railway line is being expanded including the operation of new trains. In such a situation, people should see the condition of the railways.

Many new types of facilities are coming

He also said that many new types of facilities are coming for the passengers in the coming time. Indicating the increase in train fare, said that more decisions will be taken in the coming time. The Railway Minister told that work is being done on other stations along with big stations. Prime Minister Modi has a big vision regarding railways.

Earlier, Ashwini Vaishnav while replying to the cyber attack on Delhi’s AIIMS server in Parliament said that work is going on at multi-dimensional level to ensure cyber security. Apart from this, many steps have also been taken.

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Actually, Railways has implemented a new provision. Under this provision, the supervisory cadre will get a chance to reach higher pay scale at par with Group ‘A’ officers. With this, about 80 thousand railway employees will get an opportunity to increase their salary, who are facing salary stagnation. Along with this, there will also be opportunities for promotion.

Announcing the new provision on Wednesday, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that there was a stagnation in the pay scale of the supervisory cadre in Level-7 of the Railways and there was little scope for their promotion.

Addressing a press conference here, he said, “For the last 16 years, there was a demand for an increase in the pay scale of the supervisor cadre. The only way of promotion was to get selected by giving Group ‘B’ examination. Now provision has been made for 50 per cent employees to go from level 7 to level 8. “A provision has been made for 50 per cent employees in the non-executive grade to be promoted from Level-8 to Level-9 in four years,” he said.

The move is expected to benefit 40,000 supervisory category employees such as station masters, ticket checkers, traffic inspectors. The increase in the pay scale means that everyone will get an additional salary of Rs 2,500 to Rs 4,000 per month on an average.

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