Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has said that all Indian Railway contracts will be tendered online from early next year on an e-tendering platform. He was speaking after flagging off the first of the bi-weekly trains from Goa's Margao railway station to New Delhi in south Goa on Sunday.
The idea was to bring in transparency in the processes and to cut-down the time lag. He said that the first few modern railway coaches designed by the National Institute of Design have already been rolled out by Railways. The Ministry was also pushing for a rollout of new, modern coaches which, Mr. Prabhu said, would change the way a typical journey by Indian Railways is often perceived.
To overcome complaints of wrongdoing in railway exams, the railways had started online examinations. The plan was to hold all examinations online. Mr. Prabhu also spoke about considerable reduction in time gap between announcement of projects and their actual implementation, which has been reduced to six months.
“My target is to reduce it even further and make it completely transparent,” Mr. Prabhu said.
The bi-weekly Rajdhani Express (Train No. 22413), which was flagged off by Mr. Prabhu in the presence of Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar will depart Margao Railway station at 10.05 a.m. on Sundays and Mondays and reach Hazrat Nizamuddin at 12.40 p.m. on the subsequent day.
From Hazrat Nizamuddin station the Rajdhani (Train No. 22414) will leave at 10.55 am on Fridays and Saturdays and reach Margao the next day at 12.55 p.m. The 16-coach train will also halt at Thivim, Kudal,Ratnagiri, Panvel, Surat, Vadodara and Kota railway stations.
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