Railway minister of india 2022

• v • t • e The Chairperson and CEO of the History [ ] British Raj [ ] The After Independence [ ] In April, 1951 the post of chief commissioner was abolished and the seniormost functional member was appointed the chairman of the board. List of heads of Indian Railways [ ] Chief Commissioners of Railway, 1922–51 [ ] List of chief commissioners of railway S. No. Name From To Duration (months) 1 Sir Clement Hindley 01.11.1922 11.10.1928 63 2 Sir Austen Hadow 12.10.1928 15.10.1929 12 3 Sir Guthrie Russell 16.10.1929 16.07.1940 128 4 Sir Leonard Wildson 17.07.1940 17.08.1944 49 5 Sir Arthur Griffin 12.09.1944 19.05.1946 20 6 Col RB Emerson 20.05.1946 10.09.1947 16 7 KC Bakhle 11.09.1947 31.03.1951 42 Chairmen Railway Board, 1951–present [ ] List of Chairmen Railway Board S. No. Name Cadre From To Duration (months) 1 01.04.1951 30.09.1954 42 2 G Pande 01.10.1954 31.12.1956 26 3 PC Mukherjee 01.01.1957 25.06.1959 30 4 KB Mathur 30.06.1959 18.04.1960 10 5 Karnail Singh 18.04.1960 16.08.1962 35 6 DC Baijal 16.08.1962 07.08.1965 26 7 Kripal Singh 07.08.1965 21.01.1967 17 8 GD Khandelwal 21.01.1967 06.01.1970 36 9 BC Ganguli 07.01.1970 12.10.1971 21 10 BSD Baliga 13.10.1971 12.10.1973 24 11 MN Bery 12.10.1973 30.04.1976 31 12 GP Warrier 01.05.1975 31.08.1977 16 13 KS Rajan 01.09.1977 03.06.1979 21 14 M Menezes 04.06.1979 16.11.1980 16 15 MS Gujral 17.11.1980 06.02.1983 27 16 KTV Raghvan 05.04.1983 31.01.1985 23 17 JP Gupta 01.02.1985 30.06.1985 5 18 Prakash Narain 01.07.1985 31.06.19...

Further, tare weight, the weight of an empty vehicle or container, of the aluminium is 3.25 tonne lower than that of steel. Flagging off the new 61-wagon rake from Bhubaneswar station, which will carry coal for Hindalco’s Aditya Smelter in Lapanga, Odisha, Ashwini Vaishnaw, the union minister of railways said: “These wagons save 14,500 tonne of CO2 emissions, have more carrying capacity, consume less energy and are corrosion-resistant. They are 100% recyclable and even after 30 years, they will be as good as new. These aluminium wagons will enable us to achieve our climate goals.“ With the Railways planning to deploy more than one lakh wagons in the coming years, the potential annual CO2 reduction could be to the tune of over 25 lakh tonne, with 15 - 20% shift to aluminium wagons, the Hindalco statement said. Satish Pai, managing director, Hindalco Industries said: “The launch of the India’s first aluminium freight rake is a testimony to our capability and commitment to offer smart and sustainable solutions for nation building. Hindalco is steadfast in bringing together the best of global technologies with local resources to make Indian Railways’ logistics more efficient and contribute to the vision of an Atmanirbhar Bharat." The freight sector in India is expected to grow at more than 7% CAGR to 15-billion tonne by 2050, with the energy-efficient and eco-friendly railways expected to notably increase its volume share from the current 18%. Hindalco is also planning to part...

The Indian Railways is the largest rail network in Asia and the second largest in the world. The first railway in the Indian subcontinent connected Bombay with Thane, a distance of around 21 miles. Mr. George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay Government, had the concept for a railway connecting Bombay to Thane, Kalyan, and the Thal and Bhore Ghats inclines during a visit to Bhandup in 1843. On April 16, 1853, 14 railroad carriages carrying about 400 people left Bori Bunder at 3.30 p.m., "to the loud applause of a great many people and to the salute of 21 cannons." This was the start of the opening ceremony. On August 15, 1854, the first passenger train chugged out of Howrah station and headed 24 miles to Hooghly. This marked the commencement of rail travel on the eastern side of the subcontinent as the first segment of the East Indian Railway opened to the public. In the southern region, it started on July 1, 1856, when the Madras Railway Company inaugurated the first line. The route covered 63.1 miles from Vyasarpadi Jeeva Nilayam (Veysarpandy) to Walajah Road (Arcot). On March 3, 1859, a section of track measuring 119 miles was built from Allahabad to Kanpur in the northern region. When it originally opened to traffic on October 19, 1875, it connected Hathras Road and Mathura Cantonment.

Five years after the railway budget ceased to exist as a separate entity, the national transporter puts If one reviews the pink-coloured documents of the last few years, the plan for building about 18,000 km of new lines, which were sanctioned mostly due to political considerations, is either frozen or moving at a tardy pace. These projects have not been officially declared dead, but once a project receives a meagre allocation of Rs 1,000 for a financial year, that too repeatedly, it means the project is jettisoned, albeit unofficially. Here’s one example: the 38-km-long Basukinath-Chitra broadgauge project in Jharkhand was sanctioned Rs 450 crore in 2016, but the outlay for it in 2020-21 and 2021-22 was just Rs 1,000 each. According to available data, as on April 1, 2020, about 18,700 km of new railway lines were at various stages of development, which would have required funding of over Rs 3 lakh crore. A railway officer, requesting anonymity, tells ET that the transporter, however, prioritises only about 800 km to be completed by 2024, targeting projects mainly in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and the Northeast, and deliberately slows the construction of the remainder 17,900 km. A close look at the pink books for 2020-21 and 2021-22 shows that the Rs 1,000 projects are mostly new lines, which substantiates what the officer has claimed. Allocating an outlay of Rs 1,000 to keep a project alive was practised earlier, too, but it has become more common of late. Agains...

Speaking at the Times Now Summit 2022 on the delay of bullet train operations in India, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, said "The technology and initial design for Bullet trains are very complex, but we have built close to 110 km of track already. The train will be fully operational by 2026 if everything goes as planned."

Criticising the govt for ignoring the Kharge recommendations, Kharge asked when CAG in its 2022 report pointed that almost seven out of 10 accidents between 2017-21 were due to train derailment, then why there was zero testing of Rail and Weld (Track Maintenance) for safety in the East Coast Railway Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Sunday said the "root cause" of the deadly train accident in Balasore of Odisha that claimed 275 lives and over 1,175 injured, has been identified and will be revealed very soon. The railway minister said the accident happened due to a change in "electronic interlocking". India's top auditing body, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in a 2022 report on “Derailments in Indian Railways" held the engineering department of the Indian Railways responsible for the majority of derailments. The report attributed422 derailments, from April 2017 to March 2021, to thedepartment. The report had also flagged severe shortfalls in inspections, failure to submit or accept inquiry reports after accidents, not utilising a dedicated railway fund on priority tasks, declining trend in funding track renewal, and inadequate staffing in safety operations as serious concerns. The report pointed towards poor track maintenance, overspeeding, and mechanical failure as significant reasons for derailments "There were shortfalls ranging from 30-100 per cent in inspections by Track Recording Cars required to assess geometrical and structural conditions of railway trac...