June 12, 2026 04:52 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Mamata's nightmare deepens! Saayoni Ghosh, Dev, Rachana Banerjee among 19 rebel MPs seeking TMC split | Trump claims US 'ended war with Iran', Tehran yet to confirm a deal | Heartbreak for Indian sports: Manu Bhaker's mentor Jaspal Rana passes away at 49 | Three Indian seafarers, missing after US strike on tanker near Oman, confirmed dead | 'Choose your side': TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee's ultimatum to Mamata in open revolt against Abhishek | Fresh trouble for Abhishek Banerjee! Calcutta HC orders TMC MP to appear before CID in forgery case by 6 pm today | 'No resignation, no retreat': Cockroach Janta Party takes paper leak protest nationwide | TCS goes all-in on AI! Partners with Anthropic, gives Claude access to 50,000 employees | Viral video outrage! Ola driver brutally assaults 70-year-old man over spitting row; arrested after Shinde's personal intervention | Mamata under pressure! Third Rajya Sabha MP Prakash Chik Baraik quits, hints at BJP move

All Eastern Railway sections to be electrified very soon, says GM

| | Sep 09, 2016, at 03:19 am
Kolkata, Sept 8 (IBNS): General Manager, Eastern Railway, Ghanshyam Singh has requested the industry captains for increased utilization of Railway services, especially its goods transport services to help sector in its ongoing modernization process.

He was speaking at an interactive session on “Eastern Railway-Prospect and Challenges” at MCC Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Thursday.

Singh said that Eastern Railway has taken an initiative to monitor cleanliness at all its stations and the process has been upgraded to mechanized mode.

He said, electrification, being the cheapest mode of traction, is under way on priority basis.

Another thousand KMs of the electrification of the zonal tracks will be completed soon and after a couple of years the entire sections of the Eastern Railway will be electrified, he added.

On the conversion of the remaining 51 KMs narrow gauge into broad gauge, Singh informed that about 38 KMs conversion will be completed by March, 2017 and the remaining portion in the next fiscal.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.