Friday, September 28, 2007<\/p>\n
UNIVERSAL TRAIN ENQUIRY TELEPHONE NO. 139 WILL BE COMMISSIONED FOR WEST ZONE ON 29TH SEPTMBER 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a new endeavour, to provide new, modern and improved facilities to the passengers of the Indian Railways, a common countrywide train enquiry telephone No.139 for West Zone will be inaugurated by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Naranbhai J. Rathawa at Chatterapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), Mumbai on 29th September 2007. With the commissioning of this service which is known as Integrated Train Enquiry System (ITES): \u2018Rail Sampark\u2019, the basic enquiry services like train arrival and departure, PNR status, availability of accommodation, train fare etc, are to be made available for the general public of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Dadar Nagar Haweli, Goa and Daman Diu with MTNL and BSNL subscribers. In addition to Hindi and English, enquiry services will also be available in Marathi and Gujarati for west zone.<\/p>\n
In the first phase, Zonal hub for North Region at Delhi and call centre at Noida was commissioned on 17th July 2007. Under the North Zone basic enquiry services are being made available for general public of Delhi, NCR, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Rajashtan, Uttrakhand state and Chandigarh with MTNL and BSNL as Telecom Service Provider (TSP).<\/p>\n
The services in other two zones i.e. East and South Zones will begin in the month of October 2007.<\/p>\n
Work of implementation of ITES is based on Public Private Partnership model. Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) in association with Centre for Railway Informatics System (CRIS) are responsible for rolling out this project across the country. . Execution of ITES is being done by Rail Enquiry Franchisee – M\/s Bharat BPO and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}