INDIAN RAILWAYS FACTS General Facts : World ’s largest railway networks comprising 115‚000 km of track over a route of 65‚000 km and 7‚500 stations. As of December 2012‚ it transported over 25 million passengers daily (9 billion on an annual basis). In 2011‚ IR carried over 8‚900 million passengers annually or more than 24 million passengers daily (roughly half of which were suburban passengers) and 2.8 million tons of freight daily. Biggest Railway Project : Konkan Railway Project (Roha - Mangalore
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GANDHIDHAM AREA- THE RISING SUN IN WESTERN HORIZON The development of rail in Gandhidham area starts from pages of history since 1902. In Kutch State 15 miles railway line was laid between Anjar-Tuna in this year and in 1905 railway line between Anjar and Bhuj for a distance of 25 miles was introduced. Maharao of Kutch has visualized the importance of Raiways and connectivity of important harbours of this area. The Kutch State was always remained entry gate for the traders coming from Gulf and
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Date: - 03-01-13 RAILWAYS: A SLOW STATE OF AFFAIR! Accidents and chaos are everywhere and Mumbai with its population of over 20.5 million is no exception to this. The once efficient suburban rail network is the lifeline of Mumbai‚ however over the past two decades; it is creaking under the weight of passenger influx and lack of investment in upgrading infrastructure. The extraordinary crowding of trains and poor commuter facilities at stations makes the Mumbai train system so prone to accidents
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CASE STUDY ON INDIAN RAILWAYS (MONOPOLY) In economics‚ a monopoly (from the Latin word monopolium – Greek language monos‚ one + polein‚ to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service. Monopolies are characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods. Monopoly should be distinguished from monopsony‚ in which there is only one buyer of the product or service;
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protecting local cultures from the impacts of globalization‚ as discussed in this issue brief: the Canadian magazine dispute an exemption for whaling Choose one of these issues and answer the “Questions for Discussion” following the issue that you choose. For the “Canadian Magazine To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture? I think this motivation was rather extreme when looked at from a global perspective but one
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one of his later poems that the railway icon show that this our world is the handiwork of a painter‚ not that of a blacksmith or artisan. A railway station is one of the features of modern civilisation. Here passengers as well as goods and luggages are booked. Every railway station is provided with a time-chart for the arrival and departure of trains. It has its staff or officers including the station-master. The porters help passengers with their luggages. The railway station occupies an important
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A Railway Journey I am a frequent traveller. That’s because I am a small town boy from Rourkela studying in the national capital of India. My batch friends who live nearby take every opportunity to go home be that a one day holiday or a week’s holiday. I on the other hand cannot exploit every holiday because travelling takes me 48 hours to reach home. Unfortunately there is no direct train from Delhi to Rourkela. So I have to switch trains in a preferable stop. I usually prefer Ranchi station. From
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Executive SummaryThe main purpose of this report is to analyse the condition and working ienvironment of National Insurance and Investment (NII) a company whose main business in selling and servicing insurance packages for both individual and corporate customers. So it is basically is call centre‚ which respond to the clients of its customers on their behalf. So the purpose of this report is to understand the variousssues in National Investment & insurance company (NII)‚ which is facing various problems
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THE RAILWAY CHILDREN SYNOPSIS Roberta ( Bobbie)‚ Peter and Phyllis lived in London with their loving parents. They were happy and contented. One day‚ two strangers came to their house and took their father away. After this sudden event‚ the children and their mother moved to a small house in the country. There was a railway line near their new house. The children became friends with the people who worked at the railway. They enjoyed waving to the passengers on the 9.15am train. An old gentleman
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Case Analysis Canadian Blood Services I. Introduction Canadian Blood Services (CBS) has a reputation that makes people feel comfortable in knowing that when they donate blood there will be professionals that will take care of them and they receive the satisfaction of knowing they are saving lives. It is this good feeling that brings donors into clinics to donate. However‚ Canadian Blood Services faces challenges in recruiting new blood donors and require increase donation collections to keep
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