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SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY

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PRESS RELEASE

S E RAILWAY TO RUN 2 PAIRS OF SPECIAL TRAINS FOR CANDIDATES APPEARING IN NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY AND NAVAL ACADEMY EXAMINATION

Kolkata, 4th September, 2020:

South Eastern Railway has decided to run two pairs of Special Trains for the candidates appearing in the National Defence Academy (NDA) & Naval Academy Examination as per the following programme:-

08005/08006 Balasore-Bhubaneswar Special

08005 Balasore-Bhubaneswar Special will leave Balasore at 17.00 hrs. o­n 05.09.2020 and will reach Bhubaneswar at 21.30 hrs, the same day. In return direction, 08006 Bhubaneswar-Balasore Special will leave Bhubaneswar at 21.50 hrs o­n 06.09.2020 and will arrive Balasore at 01.30 hrs, the next day.

The special train consisting of 16 Sleeper Class and 4 General Second Class Coaches will have stoppages at Bhadrak, Baitarani Road, Jajpur Keonjhar Road, Haridaspur, Dhanmandal, Nergundi and Cuttack stations in between Balasore and Bhubaneswar.

08603/08604 Rourkela-Sambalpur MEMU Special

08603 Rourkela-Sambalpur MEMU Special will leave Rourkela at 17.00 hrs. o­n 05.09.2020 and will reach Sambalpur at 19.40 hrs, the same day. In the return direction, 08604 Sambalpur-Rourkela MEMU Special will leave Sambalpur at 21.00 hrs o­n 06.09.2020 arriving Rourkela at 23.45 hrs, the same day.

The special train will have stoppages at Rajgangpur, Bamra, Jharsuguda and Rengali stations in between Rourkela and Sambalpur.

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DRM ASANSOL HOLD VIRTUAL PRESS CONFERENCE TO DISSEMINATE DEVELOPMENTS OF ASANSOL DIVISION

Kolkata, August 28, 2020:

Shri Sumit Sarkar, Divisional Railway Manager, Eastern Railway, Asansol hold virtual press conference at DRM Building, Asansol today (28.8.2020). Speaking o­n the occasion, Shri Sarkar, highlighted different concessions & discounts given to freight traffic. He mentioned about concession in busy season surcharge, long lead concession of 15% - 20% granted to coal, iron ore and finished steel, short lead concession of 10% - 50% granted to all traffic except coal & iron ore, terminal access charge concession (50%) granted to Group-III terminal, exemption of payment of stabling charges for container and automobile traffic till 31st October, 2020, 5% & 25% discount o­n haulage charges to loaded and empty container respectively. He also pointed out about the concession to bulk/loose fly ash and industrial salt.

Shri Sarkar spoke of the steps to decrease congestion at terminals. He said that there will be no restriction o­n booking of freight to any of the goods sheds or terminals. Alternate goods shed policy launched to de-congest busy goods sheds have been introduced. He also said about the liberalisation of private freight terminal and private siding policies. Shri Sarkar said that free time relaxation granted to covered wagons, distance permission for mini rake increased from 400 km to 1500 km and 5% surcharge waived off. Lower limit relaxed to 10 wagons to target piecemeal traffic in traditional empty flow direction. Weighment from road way bridges accepted for granite traffic and export traffic to Bangladesh permitted in parcel and container. Two point unloading permitted to automobile traffic.

Shri Sakar spoke of the steps to attract smaller and train load traffic, creation of business development units for o­ne stop solution for their transportation needs.

He highlighted about various good works done by Asansol Division including hands free paddle operated water tap and soap dispensers, in house conversion of general second class coaches in isolation coaches, in-house manufacture of hospital bed & stretcher, in-house manufacture of oxygen trolleys, in-house preparation of sanitising chamber and o­n-board pneumatic sanitisation system, distribution of food & food item to needy people, creation of isolation/quarantine room, ASAN AROGYA APP as a means of hospital management information system etc.

Shri Sarkar spoke of automatic mask & sanitisation vending machine commissioned at Asansol station, mechanized laundry in Asansol, ultraviolet sanitisation chamber in Asansol, luggage sanitised dispensing machine developed by Andal Diesel Shed, remote operated trolley (COVID Express) for carrying around food, water, medicines and other items to patients housed in COVID isolation, renovated Vivekananda Park and renovated Nilkantha Park etc. Shri Sarkar informed of the solar power generation system in new building of MEMU Car Shed in electric TRS shed, Asansol and spoke of different engineering activities aiming at seamless train services.