Indian Railways started its first ‘Restaurant on Wheels’ at the circulating area of Asansol railway station for the use of passengers as well as the general public of Asansol. The Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Babul Supriyo launched this first of its kind restaurant at a program.
The Indian Railways has started the Hindi Version of Artificial Intelligence-based chatbot called “ASKDISHA”. The hindi version has been started to further enhance the customer services rendered and to further strengthen the services of the chatbot.
The Indian Railways South Central Railways (SCR) zone has declared as the 1st zonal railway in the country to have functional “energy neutral” railway stations on the network.
State Government of Andhra Pradesh has dispatched the first train with high quality bananas from Tadipatri, Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh to Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) in Mumbai for export to international markets.
The Railway of India has gone under Radio-frequency identification (RFID) project for Automatic Identification and Data Collection(AIDC) of rolling stock for improving the safety and reliability.