Monorail

Monorail is contemporary type of rail based transportation system. As the word ‘mono’ indicates it is a railway having single track. Monorail has proven its efficiency. Every day lakhs of people are being carried by monorail over the world.

There are many benefits of monorail. It is very safe. There are hardly chances of accidents like trams and trolleys as it is run on single track. There is no threat of being derailment. Monorail is environment friendly. Since is totally run on electricity it is non-polluting.

Taking the increasing population in consideration, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has launched the project of monorail in 2008. The construction was started in 2009 with Larsen and Toubro (L&T) and Scomi engineering of Malaysia. L&T is leading company which helping India from several years in the field of engineering, technology and construction. Scomi Engineering falls under the list of world’s top 3 monorail constructors.  The monorail will pass through the stations of Wadala, Mahul, and Chembur.

The Mumbai monorail has four coaches. Each has capacity of 140 passengers. The doors of monorail don’t get closed if the number of passenger exceeds than 140. MMRDA has declared the completion of first phase of monorail by December 2012.

Mumbai monorail is built at the one fourth cost of world’s longest monorail track. According to survey Chembur-Wdala-Jcob circle monorail is 19.54 Km and second longer than  Osaka monorail in Japan. The Osaka monorail was built at Rs. 12,690 crore. It is 23.8 km long. Even the fares of Mumbai monorail will be comparatively lower than Osaka monorail.

SCHEMES IMPLEMENTED BY INDIAN RAILWAY

Indian Railway is the largest network in Asia. It carries over 3, 00, 00,000 passengers daily. It is expanded over 65, 000 kilometer’s track.  This huge turnover requires big amount of employment base. Because of this Indian Railway has 1.4 million employees. It is in the list of highest employer in the world. Its wages has peaked up to Rs 19037 crore. It serves special attention towards the welfare of its employees and their families. For this railway has implemented number of schemes as follows.

1. Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS):

This scheme is for the employees under A, B, and C group. It means high grade employees who have served for 12 years can enjoy the facilities under the MACPS. Any servant appointed under contract or ad-hoc basis is not applicable for this scheme.

2. New Pension Scheme:
Every person who is employed after 1st Jan 2004 is subject to valid for this scheme. It is applicable to class of Tier I and Tier II. Under Tier I, 10% of the employees are considered for this scheme and equal amount is contributed in employees provident fund. In Tier II every employee is voluntarily and can save in pension plan and withdraw money as per his need.

3. Safety Related Retirement Scheme:

Indian Railway has implemented a new scheme under which an employee under the age group of 50 -57 years can get voluntary retirement and any member of his family above 20 years can be employed in his place.

Reservation Rules Indian Railway

Indian railway is always busy in welfare of its employee and passenger. It used to keep happy to them by introducing various plans. Its passenger can take advantage of different schemes like, Tatkal Scheme, FAQ list, circular Journey tickets, Upgraded Passenger List etc. However there are some rules which have to be followed while booking ticket.

Every passenger who wants to reserve a ticket for the berth or seat should purchase ticket from local Railway Reservation Office or an Authorized Travel Agency only.

For all trains and for all classes one can book ticket maximum 90 days before and the reservation is valid only for the day of departure of train. One passenger can reserve only six tickets at a time and that is only if all six people are travelling in same train. A passenger can submit one requisition form at a time.

Indian Railway also provides accommodation but only if the necessary ticket is reserved. The passenger who reserves the first can take advantage of it. The railway guarantees the compensation for the nuisance, loss, or extra carriage charge during the journey.

The reserved ticket indicates the time of train departure. However it is printed in 90 days advance passenger are subjected to conform the time of the fixed day from respective station.

The Railway gives concession to senior citizens. Yet it is allotted to every person. It means one should fill the requisite form for that. The senior citizen should carry proof of age while traveling through train. The proof should be produced with the ticket on demand.

If any passenger who has reserved ticket misses the train then the IR is not liable for the compensation.