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PNR enquiry to complaint status: All in a single portal! Check out the features of Rail Drishti

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The portal can be accessed through desktop, laptop, mobile phones or tablets. The dashboard will help make available every kind of information anytime, anywhere to anybody.

PNR enquiry to complaint status: All in a single portal! Check out the features of Rail Drishti

New Delhi: Railway minister Piyush Goyal on Monday launched the Rail Drishti dashboard. The portal has all digitisation efforts of the Railways and it promotes transparency as well as accountability. Users will be able to access railway information from various sources on a single platform.

The portal can be accessed through desktop, laptop, mobile phones or tablets. The dashboard will help make available every kind of information anytime, anywhere to anybody. The portal is simple, user-friendly and easy to navigate.

There are 15 user-friendly sections on the website: Check them out

1. At a Glance: Under this section, users will be able to access Passenger Reservation, Unreserved Ticketing, Freight Earnings and Freight Loading information. Also, information on any station on Indian Railways can be viewed in this tab as well.

2. Services: Passengers can now view and avail the status of any digital service offered by the Railways namely, PNR enquiry, ODC application enquiry, Complaint Enquiry, Tender Enquiry, Shramik Enquiry and Freight related enquiries, on this portal. For citizen’s convenience, links to eight important railway websites are also available here.

3. Trains on Run: Passengers can now track any train on the Indian Railways Network. The will also be able to get information about the train as well as the contact number of the housekeeping staff. Filters are available to view specific trains.

4. IRCTC Kitchens: You can now ensure whether the food made in IRCTC kitchens is hygienic. The dashboard provides a facility to view live feeds from the cameras installed in various IRCTC base kitchens. Passengers can view how the food being served to them in trains is being cooked and packed in real-time.

5. Grievances: This section will display the status of grievances reported through the Complaint Management System (COMS). It will also display the number of grievances resolved and pending. Zone wise and Division wise breakup, as well as complaint type wise breakup, can be viewed on the portal.

6. Achievements: People can now track all the achievements of the railways. The portal will display achievements of Indian Railways as a whole and achievements of Railways in various states.

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Private trains: Companies will have freedom to decide on fare

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• To give advantage to the latest entrants, railways will offer a ‘non-discriminatory’ access to the trains operated by the concessionaire

• The concession period for the project will be 35 years and the private firm will have fixed haulage charges, energy charges as per actual consumption and a share in gross revenue

Indian railways will give private firms the freedom to decide upon the fare to be charged from passengers as it is gearing up to get run 151 run trains across 100 routes, via public private partnership (PPP).

These companies will also have to the existing Indian Railway Passenger Reservation System for booking of tickets. However, a mechanism will be built in to transfer the revenue earned to an escrow account, according to the Project Information Memorandum Document (PIM) released by the national transporter. The PIM aims to give prospective bidders a broad understanding of the proposed passenger train operations.

To give advantage to the latest entrants, railways will offer a ‘non-discriminatory’ access to the trains operated by the concessionaire. “No new similar scheduled train will depart the originating station in the same origin destination route within 60 minutes of the scheduled departure of the concessionaires train. However, this restriction shall not apply in case capacity utilization of the concessionaire train is more than 80% in the previous three months," it said.

These 151 additional trains will run the busiest routes, where the demand unmet or there are many waitlisted passengers and private participation in train operations will allow next generation technology, better quality, ensuring use of improved coach technology and reduced journey time.

The concession period for the project will be 35 years and the private firm will have fixed haulage charges, energy charges as per actual consumption and a share in gross revenue determined through a bidding process. Railways will look into the safety measures of these trains, which will be operated by the driver and guard of the national transporter.

The gross revenue will include amount accruing to the concessionaire from the passengers from services such as amount printed on ticket- fare, amount from preferred seat options, baggage, cargo, if it is not included in the ticket fare, amount from on-board services such as – catering, bed roll, content on demand, wi-fi. “Any amount accruing to the concessionaire on account of advertising, branding and naming rights pursuant to the concession agreement," it said.

Last week, railways invited proposals to shortlist bidders and allow private companies run 151 modern passenger trains. Financial bids will then open by February-March 2021 and by April, 2023, trains will be operationalized, Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav had said.

The project would entail private sector investment of about ₹30,000 crore. These trains will operate in 12 clusters, including Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Delhi, Mumbai, Patna, Prayagraj, Secunderabad, Howrah, Chennai.

The private companies will be in charge of the maintenance of the trains. Railways will provide space to private firms in the existing maintenance depots for up-gradation or setting up its maintenance depot. “The concessionaire will bring its manpower, tools and plants as required for undertaking the maintenance obligations," it said, adding that scheduled maintenance of the trains shall not be before 31 days or a travel of 40,000 km of such previous scheduled maintenance, whichever is later.

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