Prudent Financial Decisions: An Urgent Need for Indian Railways

IR has been consistently spending over 90 per cent of what it earned. This left little room for investing in capital expenditure Read more

10 Key Policy and Infra Issues for the New Railway Minister

Several key issues on Policy and Infra that continue to bog down IR are likely to be on the new railway minister's plate. Read more

Electrification: Southern India – SR, SWR and SCR get Revised Timelines and Targets for 2019-20

Revised timelines and targets have been set out for the three zones in Southern India for the financial year 2019-20 by the Railway Board. Read more

New postings at Railway Board and RDSO

Shri. RK Jain (IRSSE), Director/IRISET, Secunderabad has been transferred to Railway Board and posted as Adviser (Telecom). Shri. Anil Kumar Agarwal (IRSME), Additional Member (Mechanical) has been entrusted with the… Read more

Electrification: Revised 2019-20 Targets for CR, All of Pune – Miraj – Kolhapur route to be completed this year

Central Railway gets revised electrification targets, up from 722 km to 859 km in 2019-20 Read more

V P Pathak is the new Member (Materials Management) Railway Board

V P Pathak an Indian Railway Stores Service Officer (IRSS) of the 1980 batch, is now Member (Materials Management) Railway Board Read more

DG (S&T) Redesignated Member (Signal & Telecom) on Railway Board

The post of Director General (Signalling and Telecom) has been redesignated to Member (Signal & Telecom) in the Railway Board. Read more

UPDATED: Train 18: RDSO and ICF Propose Solution for Damaging Cattle Runovers

Solution to Cattle Runovers on Train-18 found. Testing underway. Read more

Electrification: Targets for 2019-20 set at 10,319 km

Electrification targets for 2019-20 set at 68% higher than target for 2018-20 by Railway Board Read more

New Additional Member (Staff)

Shri. Anand Singh Khati (IRPS) has been appointed as the new Additional Member (Staff) at Railway Board. Read more