Showing posts with label Railways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Railways. Show all posts

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Indian Railways on the Move (IRCTC)


@ Times of India - In 2014-15, the IRCTC website saw over 18.3 crore tickets being booked from its e-ticketing portal. Starting mid-Feb, they will limit bookings to six per month per user account. Today, it is India's largest e-commerce players by revenue as filed with the Registrar of Companies. E-ticketing constitutes 55% of total reserved tickets on Indian Railways. IRCTC's total income for the financial year 2014-15 stood at Rs. 1,141 crore. This is inclusive of service charge for online ticket booking, sales of packaged water, Rail Neer, and license fees from catering vendors. In the same fiscal,the total amount earned from users in ticket fares stood at Rs 20,620 crore.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Rapid Rail Transit for the National Capital Region of Delhi

If the NCR Planning Board achieves its target of getting the three rapid rail transit systems operational by 2016, people living in the National Capital Region can hope to save Rs 1 lakh crore annually.

The board's member-secretary, Naini Jayaseelan, however, believes that the approved expenditure of around Rs 72,000 crore on the three rapid rail transit systems is only a trickle, compared with what an enterprise of this magnitude calls for.

The estimated value of the economic benefits accruing to the NCR after the Delhi-Alwar, Delhi-Meerut and Delhi-Panipat rapid rail alignments are completed will be around Rs 3.5 lakh crore, according the NCRPB.

Read more on Daily Mail

National Capital Region Planning Board