The Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, will inaugurate the Gaya-Howrah Vande Bharat Express at Gaya Junction on September 15th. The train will be flagged off by the Chief Minister, marking the commencement of its operations. The inauguration ceremony will be held on platform number 5, with dignitaries including the General...
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Manager of East Central Railway, Chhatrasal Singh, along with ministers, MPs, MLAs, and MLCs from Gaya district. A cultural program by schoolchildren will also be part of the event. This addition will make Gaya Junction a hub for Vande Bharat Express trains, with four pairs of Vande Bharat trains operating through the station. The Gaya-Howrah Vande Bharat Express will travel via Dhanbad and Asansol, while the Varanasi-Devghar Vande Bharat Express will run between Devghar and Varanasi via Gaya, Nawada, and Kiul. Previously, the Vande Bharat Express trains operating between Ranchi-Patna and Ranchi-Varanasi also passed through Gaya Junction.

Veerendra Kumar Yadav, a resident of Raj Ground in Jharia and a person with disabilities, has been reappointed as a member of the Eastern Central Railway Divisional Railway Consumer Advisory Committee Dhanbad. This decision has been met with joy by local residents. The Senior Divisional Commercial Manager and Secretary issued a...
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letter confirming this appointment.

On Sunday, a large-scale ticket checking campaign was conducted in the Dhanbad Railway Division. This included thorough ticket checks at Dhanbad station, as well as Gomo, Chandrapura, Koderma, Hazaribagh Road, Daltonganj, Chopan, Barkakana, and Singrauli stations. A total of 794 passengers were caught, including those traveling without tickets, without proper authorization,...
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and those carrying unbooked luggage. During this campaign, a fine of Rs. 3,06,965 was collected. 161 ticket checking staff were deployed for the checks, which were conducted at stations and on various mail and express trains. The objective of this campaign was to curb ticketless travel and ensure that passengers traveling with valid tickets do not face any inconvenience due to ticketless passengers.

The Uttar Railway's Lucknow division is undergoing track doubling and yard remodelling on the Janghai-Barairam-Ugrasenpur section. This will lead to changes in train routes from September 3rd to 22nd, affecting trains passing through Dhanbad and Gomoh. For example, the 12358 Amritsar-Kolkata Durgiyana Express (departing September 12th), 12357 Kolkata-Amritsar Durgiyana Express (departing...
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September 14th), and 12372 Bikaner-Howrah Superfast Express (departing September 19th) will take a different route via Varanasi, Jafrabad, Sultanpur, and Lucknow. Similarly, the 12353 Howrah-Lalkuan Express (departing September 13th), 13167 Kolkata-Agra Cantt Express (departing September 12th), and 13168 Agra Cantt-Kolkata Express (departing September 14th) will also take a different route via Varanasi, Jafrabad, Ayodhya Cantt, and Lucknow. The 12381 Howrah-New Delhi Purva Express (departing on 8th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 18th, 19th, and 22nd September) and the 12382 New Delhi-Howrah Purva Express (departing on 9th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 17th, and 20th September) will both take a different route via Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Mirzapur, and Prayagraj.

The Indian Railways has announced a ban on all facilities provided to the currently recognized union, in anticipation of upcoming elections for railway unions. This includes access to office space, union cards, passes, and any use of these facilities for campaign activities. The railway administration has also restricted meetings between the...
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union and the PNM (presumably, the Personnel Management department). The East Central Railway's Personnel Department issued a circular to all divisional railway managers regarding these restrictions. The Secret Ballot Election Committee of the Railway Board has announced the dates for the elections as December 4th, 5th, and 6th.