New Delhi, July 9th: The Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday that the Railways will introduce two additional non-stop, point-to-point “Duronto” trains to New Delhi from Secunderabad and Nagpur. Two of the 12 Duronto trains announced by her during the presentation of the budget on July 3, will start running within a month.
The non-stop trains, introduced for the first time, will have both air-conditioned and non-A/C sleeper coaches. The double-decker trains announced by Ms. Banerjee will be operational within a year. Ms. Banerjee, who was replying to the debate on the railway budget in the Lok Sabha, promised that all her budget commitments would be fulfilled in a year. Later, the House adopted the railway budget.
She said the functions of the Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) will be reviewed. Recalling instances of violence in many States during the RRB examination by youth pressing for recruitment of locals, she said 50 per cent of the jobs would be given to the locals. Besides, the question papers would also be set in the local language.
Hyderabad, July 10th: The counseling for admission into various engineering and medical colleges through Eamcet (Engineering and Medical Common Entrance Test) is likely to delay further. It is nearly a month since the Eamcet results were announced, but the officials are still clueless on the schedu...
Hyderabad, July 10th: Rise in prices of the essential commodities, particularly rice and dal is showing impact on the midday meal scheme, which is now feeding 80 lakh school children. Suppliers of midday meal schemes, including self help groups in villages have sent an SOS to the government stating...
Vizianagaram, July 10th: A physically challenged person, Mr. Aravind Kumar Mishra, 33 who was affected with polio started his mission to educate and create awareness among people about the dreaded disease polio. He is also campaigning with the people in general, youth in particular to donate blood....
Kakinada, July 10th: A two day workshop on research initiatives for women was inaugurated on Friday at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada. The program is being organized jointly by JNTU, Kakinada and the Centre for Equal Opportunities for Women, under the Women Scientist Scheme (WO...
Rajahmundry, July 10th: The West Godavari district administration is taking all measures to overcome the constraints in the construction of Indiramma houses. The district stood fourth place in the implementation of the housing scheme phases I, II and III. The administration has targeted constructio...
Hyderabad, July 12th: The All India Council for Technical Education has given approval to 70 new engineering colleges in the state this year. With the establishment of these new engineering colleges this year the number of engineering seats has risen to 2 lakh and engineering colleges to 610, the h...
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