New 24-hour Indian Railways train ticket refund scheme, Vande Bharat sleeper, launch of ultimate stretch of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramula Rail Link mission, a “super app” for railway passengers and the India’s first vertical raise railway bridge – these are simply a few of the things that the Ministry of Railways is proposing as a part of its 100-day plan for the new authorities after Lok Sabha polls 2024.
According to a TOI report, ministries are gearing as much as implement numerous “people-friendly” measures following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directive to arrange a 100-day plan for the new authorities.
Indian Railways intends to introduce a 24-hour ticket refund scheme, changing the present three-day course of, and launch a complete “super app” providing a number of companies like ticketing and train monitoring.
According to a TOI report, ministries are gearing as much as implement numerous “people-friendly” measures following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directive to arrange a 100-day plan for the new authorities.
Indian Railways intends to introduce a 24-hour ticket refund scheme, changing the present three-day course of, and launch a complete “super app” providing a number of companies like ticketing and train monitoring.
Indian Railways 100-day roadmap
We check out a few of the top focus areas for Indian Railways:
- Indian Railways goals to provoke the
PM Rail Yatri Bima Yojna insurance coverage scheme for passengers inside the first 100 days. - The authorities is in search of cupboard approval for three financial corridors spanning 40,900 km, necessitating an funding of Rs 11 lakh crore.
- There are plans to launch a extra passenger pleasant refund scheme that may enable passengers to get refunds for train ticket cancellations inside 24 hours.
- A “super-app” could also be launched that may enable train passengers to trace their train standing, guide tickets and do a bunch of different railway associated duties in a single place
- Plans embody the operation of trains from Jammu to Kashmir upon completion of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramula Rail Link mission. This stretch of the USBRL mission additionally consists of the
Chenab bridge which is the world’s highest railway bridge (Taller than Eiffel Tower!) and theAnji Khad bridge which is Indian Railways’ first cable-stayed bridge.
- India’s first vertical-lift bridge, the
Pamban railway bridge connecting the mainland with Rameswaram, is slated to turn out to be operational. Train companies between Mandapam and Rameswaram had been halted in Dec 2022 attributable to security issues relating to the current 1913 rail bridge. - Railway authorities are additionally centered on introducing sleeper variations of Vande Bharat trains. The first prototype of the Vande Bharat sleeper train is presently being manufactured by BEML in Bengaluru and is anticipated to be prepared in six months time.
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- The goal can also be to expedite the bullet train mission. The focus shall be on operationalising roughly 320 km of the 508 km Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train stretch by April 2029.
