Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today held a meeting to review major railway projects including a project for railway connectivity to Statue of Unity fame Kevadiya Colony and Gandhinagar railway station rdevelopment project. According to a release issued by the government, Civil work in Gandhinagar railway station redevelopment project is almost over and interior work has kicked off. Redeveloped Gandhinagar railway station will have a five star hotel atop the railway track along...Read More

Gandhinagar: More than 10.75 lakh migrant workers have been ferried from Gujarat to their home states on special trains, the Gujarat government said on Friday. The central government had allowed inter-state movement of migrant workers and other stranded persons on May 2 on special trains. Since then, the Gujarat government has facilitated the return of more than 10.75 lakh workers to their home states. “Almost 750 special trains have been run from Gujarat in the last 20 days. This number...Read More

Gandhinagar: Touching a major landmark, the Gujarat government ran the 500th Shramik special train on Monday in just over two weeks since the inter-state movement of workers and other stranded persons was allowed. “We have been working very closely with several states and Railways to operate special trains to send back migrant workers. We operated the 500th Shramik special train today, which is the highest among all states. These trains have ferried more than 7 lakh workers to their home st...Read More

Vadodara: The first special train from Gujarat to the North East, carrying stranded passengers from Manipur, Sikkim, and Meghalaya, departed from Vadodara on Friday. Vipul Mittra, additional chief secretary, Labour and Employment department, said that the train will crisscross the entire breadth of the country, and cover a distance of 2,200 km in 40 hours. “We have facilitated more than 400 special trains in the last fortnight, but this one was especially challenging. Unlike other states...Read More

Ahmedabad: Krishnavati from Raibareli, Uttar Pradesh (UP) bowing down to the land of Karmabhoomi Gujarat before leaving for visit to native place in UP, by boarding Shramik Express train at Ahmedabad railway station earlier today. 'Gujarat has given us everything, we will be back,' she said.Read More

New Delhi: Indian Railways today said it has decided that there shall be no RAC (Reservation against cancellation) in special trains restored wef. 12.05.2020. Also, it has been decided that waiting list tickets shall be issued subject to maximum limits mentioned below:   Class Maximum Waiting List Limit 1 AC 20 Executive Class 20 2 AC 50 3 AC 100 AC Chair Car 100 (Applicable only if any train with Chair Car class is introduced in future) Slee...Read More

Gandhinagar: 47 more Shramik Express trains are leaving Gujarat today including 37 trains to Uttar Pradesh(UP), 4 to Bihar, 2 to Odisha and 1 each to Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand. Of these trains, 15 will be leaving from Surat, 11 from Ahmedabad, 5 from Rajkot, 2 each from Bharuch, Gandhidham and Vapi and 1 each from other cities. Each train today will carry around 16,00 laborers and therefore total migrant laborers to be transported by trains will be 75,200. ...Read More