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The Ajmer railway division, founded on 5 November 1951, has ~9,050 employees handling 48 passenger trains across 141 stations (15 main stations with Computerized Passenger Reservation System), covering the elongated elliptical shaped loop railway network in Marwar region central Rajasthan, from Pushkar to Palanpur via Marwar, and from Palanpur back to Pushkar via Chittorgarh.
The Bikaner railway division was formed in 1924, though its origin dates back to early 1880.. In 1882, a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) wide metre gauge line from Marwar Junction to Pali was built by the Rajputana Railway.
The Bolan Pass railway was completed in 1886 and in 1887 the Khawaja Amran Railway Survey included the Khojak Tunnel and the Chaman Extension Railway. [4] The Khojak Tunnel opened in 1891 and the railway reached Chaman near the Afghan border. By 1905, it was the longest railway under one administration and the strategic railway of the entire ...
Lucknow NER railway division is one of the three railway divisions under the jurisdiction of North Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. [1] This railway division was formed on 14 April 1952. Izzatnagar railway division (at Bareilly City) and Varanasi railway division are the other two railway divisions under NER Zone headquartered at ...
Tourist card: Tourist cards can be used for unlimited travel on the Delhi Metro for short periods of time. There are two kinds of tourist cards, valid for one and three days. The cost of a one-day card is ₹ 200 (US$2.30) and a three-day card is ₹ 500 (US$5.80), including a refundable deposit of ₹ 50 (58¢ US) paid at purchase. [218]
It comprises the Indian Army, the Indian Navy, the Indian Air Force, and the Indian Coast Guard. [291] The official Indian defence budget for 2011 was US$36.03 billion, or 1.83% of GDP. [ 292 ] Defence expenditure was pegged at US$70.12 billion for fiscal year 2022–23 and, increased 9.8% than previous fiscal year.
The government signed large deals with General Electric and Alstom to supply India with 1,000 new diesel locomotives, as part of an effort to reform the Indian railway, which also included privatisation efforts. [43] [44] In December 2015, Modi's government signed an agreement with Japan to jointly build a bullet train system linking Mumbai and ...
The development of the latter started in 1969. The first successful SCMaglev run was made on a short track at the Japanese National Railways' (JNR's) Railway Technical Research Institute in 1972. [26] Maglev trains on the Miyazaki test track (a later, 7 km long test track) regularly hit 517 kilometres per hour (321 mph) by 1979. After an ...