Indian Railways has changed the run time of the train in order to maintain the punctuality.
Indian
Railways has found a new way to deal with age-old punctuality
problem.
With
several trains running late on different routes across the country,
Indian Railways has changed run times in order to maintain
punctuality.
How
does it work?
Touted
as the fastest train between Delhi and Mumbai, Bandra Terminus-Hazrat
Nizamuddin special Rajdhani Express takes 14 hours to reach its
destination. Now, according to a report by PTI, Indian
Railways is planning to increase the run time by one hour to
stick to a schedule. So, the train which would be marked as late
according to the old timetable, will be on time according to the new
timetable.
The
proposal mooted by Western Railway and signed off by Northern
Railway, North Central Railway and West Central Railway, the sources
told PTI, is with the Railway Board for consideration.
As
many as 38 per cent trains have been delayed in the last three
months, Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain informed the Lok
Sabha.
In
April, 39 per cent trains were delayed. In May, the figure stood at
40 per cent and in June 35 per cent of trains were late, taking the
average delays to 38 per cent over the last three months.
Among
the worst performing zones in the said period, the punctuality of
Rajdhani trains in the south-east central zone was 30.77 per cent,
while 54.93 per cent of Shatabdi trains ran on time in the eastern
zone.
The
Southern Railway has already extended the run time of 90 trains by 30
minutes to an hour. Northern Railway has also proposed to delay the
arrival times of nearly 95 trains.
Various
steps have been initiated to improve punctuality, such as the
prioritisation of preventive maintenance of assets to the
minimization of asset failures, capacity enhancement projects by the
construction of additional loop lines at stations, doubling and
construction of third line corridors, said Rajen Gohain in Rajya
Sabha.
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