INDIAN RAILWAY TO START MOBILE PAYMENT TICKETING FACILITY ..
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Indian Railways on 11 June 2013 decided to start offering train tickets
via mobile SMS. The services of IRCTC, the subsidiary of Indian Railways
will come into effect from July 2013. The fees that will be charged to
avail the services will be around Rs. 08.67 to 14.46 To book
the tickets through this service, the traveler of Indian railway will
have to get his mobile number and bank account information registered
first an further the banks will provide a mobile money identification
code or MMID, and password to authorize payments. To book a
train, the passenger will just have to send the information of travel as
in train number, destination and travel date to the IRCTC after which a
transaction ID will be received by the sender on his mobile. Then he
will have to send another SMS with message PAY followed by the ID, MMID
received from the bank and the password.
INDIAN RAILWAYS MAKES HISTORY , RUNS TRAIN THROUGH ASIA's SECOND LONGEST TUNNEL .
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Finally, history was made on Friday as the trial run of the country's longest railway tunnel, Pir Panjal tunnel, was
conducted smoothly. The train covered the 11 km distance in 20 minutes.
It took 30 minutes to cover the entire distance of 17.5 km from
Qazigund to Banihal. The tunnel (11.215 km), which connects Bichleri
Valley of Banihal with Qazigund area of Kashmir Valley, is the India's
first longest transport tunnel and Asia's second longest tunnel. 6.5 km
long Karbude tunnel of the Konkan railway was India's longest tunnel so
far. While the longest tunnel in Asia is Wushaoling tunnel (20 km) in
Gansu, China. "The Pir Panjal railway tunnel is a vital link
connecting Udhampur to Baramulla. Train passengers in the Kashmir Valley
can soon travel up to Banihal with the completion of the
Qazigund-Banihal section which also comprises Pir Panjal railway
tunnel," said Sharanappa Yalal, project manager of Pir Panjal Tunnel
project of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) Ltd.
