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RailTel, a "Mini Ratna (Category-I)" Central Public Sector Enterprise under Ministry of Railways, is o­ne of the largest neutral telecom infrastructure providers in the country owning a Pan-India optic fibre network covering several towns & cities and rural areas of the country. RailTel is working towards creating a knowledge society at various fronts and has been selected for implementation of various mission-mode projects for the Government of India in the telecom field.

RailTel, o­n 9^th May, 2022, launched Prime Minister Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) scheme based access of its Public Wi-Fi services across 100 Railway Stations having 2384 Wi-Fi hotspots. These stations are spread in 22 states and include 71 Category A1, A stations and 29 stations of other category.

Out of the 100 Railway Stations across India, 10 Railway stations are within the jurisdiction of N.F. Railway. These Railway stations are named as Siliguri, New Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Ghoom, Goalpara Town, Kamakhya, Guwahati, Agartala, Dharmanagar & Panisagar. To access this Wi-Fi network, presently android based Mobile App named ‘Wi-DOT’can be used which is available o­n Google Play Store.

RailTel’s Wi-Fi network, spread across 6102 Railway Stations across India, has 17,792 Wi-Fi hotspots, and is still growing. PM-WANI based access of RailTel’s public Wi-Fi services would be extended to all 6102 Railway Stations (where Wi-Fi facility is already available) in phased manner by the end of June 2022 (total 1000 Stations by 10^th June, 3000 Stations by 20^th June and all 6102 by 30th June’22).

         Wi-Fi hotspot plays a key role in last mile connectivity for delivering of broadband internet access to users. PM-WANI is an ambitious program of Department of Telecom, Government of India to facilitate ease of use and proliferate broadband usage for masses. C-DOT has designed and developed the framework of PM-WANI and N. F. Railway, as a zone to Indian Railways will be highly benefited to this PM-WANI scheme in the near future.

Alert Railway Protection Force (RPF) of N. F. Railway successfully rescued seven persons including minors and woman during 1^stto 6^th May, 2022. The RPF of NFR detected 39 cases of rescue where 50 persons including 42 minors, 5 women and 3 men were rescued in April, 2022. All of them were rescued from trains, railway premises and stations in different operations conducted over N. F. Railway and handed them over to respective parents/guardians, GRP or Child Line/NGOs for their safe custody and further necessary action.

In recent incident o­n 6^th May, 2022, o­n duty RPF and GRP officials rescued o­ne minor girl aged about 15 years who had cut her left hand's wrist and was shouting loudly near the Railway Heritage Park at New Tinsukia railway station. The rescued girl was rushed to Civil Hospital, Tinsukia by RPF and GRP personnel for treatment. Matter was informed to her guardian/ parents. After medical treatment, the rescued girl, belongs to Laipuli of Tinsukia (Assam), was handed over to her relative after necessary formalities. Again o­n that day, RPF of New Jalpaiguri Post, while checking at New Jalpaiguri railway station, rescued o­ne missing girl aged about 20 years, a resident of Darjeeling (West Bengal). Matter was informed to her father over phone. Later, the rescued girl was handed over to her brother after proper verification.

In an incident o­n 5^th May, 2022, RPF of Guwahati, jointly with member of Railway Child Line while checking at Guwahati railway station, rescued two runaway minor boys. Based o­n information, o­n 3^rd May, 2022, RPF train escort party and RPF of New Tinsukia conducted checking in train No. 15603 UP (Guwahati - Ledo Intercity Express) in search of two runaway minor boys. The RPF team detected the two minor boys and successfully rescued them. Moreover, RPF team of Guwahati o­n 1^st May, 2022, during joint checking with Railway Child line at Guwahati railway station, rescued o­ne runaway minor boy. Later, the rescued boys were handed over to Railway Child Line, Guwahati and Child Line, Tinsukia for safe custody and further course of action.

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has been alerted to look out o­n the movement of children in a suspicious manner, travelling alone or without proper guardian etc. A new initiative under “Meri Saheli” has been formed over N. F. Railway and functioning round the clock to make aware women/child passengers about the safety/security and use of Helpline No. 139 in case of any exigency.