Three railways stations in Kerala to be renovated to meet international standards
The Centre has decided to give a facelift to three railway stations in Kerala and raise them up to international standards.
The Centre is decided to spend about Rs. 20 crores each on renovating the railway stations in Kottayam, Kozhikode and Palakkad. Union Tourism Minister Alphonse Kannanthanam has informed about this decision by the Centre through a Facebook post.
Kottayam, Palakkad and Kozhikode railway stations will be raised to world-class standards, he said. The minister also said that the government has decided to allocate Rs 20 crore for this purpose.
He has clarified that the decision was taken after a discussion with Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.
Source – http://kaumudiglobal.com
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Indian Railway is India’s national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways. It manages the fourth-largest railway network in the world by size, with 121,407 kilometres (75,439 mi) of total track over a 67,368-kilometre (41,861 mi) route[3]. Thirty eight percent of the routes are electrified with 25 KV AC electric traction while thirty-three percent of them are double or multi-tracked.
IR runs more than 13,000 passenger trains daily, on both long-distance and suburban routes, from 7,349 stations across India. The trains have a five-digit numbering system. Mail or express trains, the most common types, run at an average speed of 50.6 kilometres per hour (31.4 mph). In the freight segment, IR runs more than 9,200 trains daily. The average speed of freight trains is around 24 kilometres per hour (15 mph).
As of March 2017, IR’s rolling stock consisted of 277,987 freight wagons, 70,937 passenger coaches and 11,452 locomotives. IR owns locomotive and coach-production facilities at several locations in India.
The world’s eighth-largest employer, it had 1.308 million employees as of March 2017.
In the year ending March 2018, IR is projected to carry 8.26 billion passengers and transport 1.16 billion tons of freight. In the fiscal year 2017-18, IR is projected to have earnings of ₹1.874 trillion (US$29 billion), consisting of ₹1.175 trillion (US$18 billion) in freight revenue and ₹501.25 billion (US$7.7 billion) in passenger revenue, with an operating ratio of 96.0 percent.
