SALIENT FEATURES – ALTERNATE TRAIN ACCOMMODATION SCHEME -“VIKALP”

20-10-2022

With a view to provide confirmed accommodation to waitlisted passengers and also to ensure optimal utilisation of available accommodation, Alternate Train Accommodation Scheme (ATAS) known as 'VIKALP' has been introduced in all Mail/Express trains. In this Scheme wait listed passenger has to give an option at the time of booking of ticket & those passenger subject to availability of vacant accommodation. Broad features of the scheme are as under:- 1• The passengers can exercise the option for getting shifted to a train upto 72 hours of scheduled departure of original train in which waitlisted ticket was booked. 2• All the passengers booked under the scheme are given an option

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July 14, 2019

कारगिल युद्ध भारतीय शूरवीरों के शौर्य, अदम्य साहस और कुशल युद्ध रणनीति की अमर गाथा है। प्रतिकूल परिस्थितियों में भी भारतीय सेना के

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July 13, 2019

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UMID – Unique Medical Identity Card (FULL MANUAL )
July 12, 2019

UMID - Unique Medical Identity Card (FULL MANUAL   Railway Employee (App) Rail News Center ( App) Railway Question Bank ( App) Railway Mutual Transfer (App) Information Center  (

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How are freight wagons classifed by Indian Railway ?
June 29, 2019

The following codes are used now for classifying freight wagons . The classification scheme is not entirely systematic. Older wagons especially have codes that are not easily explained in this way. But in general an optional gauge code is followed by a type code which is followed by an indication of the coupler and whether the wagon is

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Are there rail connections to Pakistan from India?
June 28, 2019

Before the partition of the subcontinent, there used to be several trains running across what is now the India-Pakistan border. Today, there is only one active rail connection, and the others are in disuse or have been dismantled. See below for updates! The active link goes Amritsar - Attari - Wagah - Lahore. Attari and Wagah are towns on either

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How does IR name its trains?
June 28, 2019

All trains on IR are identified by primarily through their numbers (either the 4-digit nationwide numbers or the zonal numbers for local passenger trains). However, as a convenience, most trains (other than some very frequent local services such as EMU/MEMU or passenger shuttles) are referred to by names in IR's literature and also by the

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