Holiday special train fares reversed to normal
The Hindu
Railways completes renumbering mail/express trains as it was before COVID-19
Southern Railway has completed at its Chennai Data Centre changes in Tatkal fare to normal fare for 39 holiday/festival special trains of Southern Railway and 47 holiday/festival special trains of South Western Railway. Other Zonal Railways too have followed suit.
Meanwhile, the Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS) and five Regional Data Centres of Indian Railways have completed renumbering of all mail/express trains running on Indian Railways by 5.30 a.m. on Sunday, that is within six days as against the seven-day target. The Railways had announced that the Passenger Reservation System (PRS) will remain shut for six hours between 11.30 p.m. and 5.30 a.m. from November 14 to November 21 to facilitate change in train numbers from special (starting with 0) to regular (starting with 1 or 2).
With this exercise, all train numbers have been brought back to the old train numbers as it existed before the pandemic struck. In Chennai Data Centre, train numbers of 314 trains originating in Southern Railway and 172 trains originating in South Western Railway were renumbered during the period.
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The Deputy Commissioner and the Election Officer for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency M. P. Mullai Muhilan said here on Friday that over 600 staff will be involved in the counting of votes cast in the April 26 elections, at the counting centre at the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, on June 4.