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All coaches will have bio-toilets by end of year
All 6,229 coaches of Southern Railway will have bio-toilets by December 2018, said R K Kulshrestha, general manager of SR on Wednesday.
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As of now, 65 per cent of the coaches in the zone have bio-toilets, Kulshrestha said while addressing the staff during the 63rd Railway Week celebration in the city.
Pointing out that Integrated Security System (ISS) has been implemented at 14 important railway stations in the zone, the GM added that Rs 72 crore has been sanctioned under Nirbhaya fund for the provision of CCTV cameras in 136 stations classified as A1, A, B & C. He said that 979 runaway/missing children were rescued by RPF personnel in association with Child Helpline during 2017-18.Â
CMRL, SBI launch app for cashless commuteÂ
Chennai Metro Rail Limited in association with SBI launched an application — SBI Pay — exclusively for the commuters of Chennai Metro. Pankaj Kumar Bansal IAS, Managing Director of CMRL and SBI DMD Padmaja Chunduru introduced the app to the public at Koyambedu metro station on Wednesday. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based app can sync with other banks’ UPI/e-Wallets and it is real-time based.Â
Commuters can initiate a cashless top-up and purchase tokens with this app. They can also use their own Bank’s UPI app (presently 64 banks active) to make transactions. As the MIS and transaction history are instantaneous, commuters can easily confirm the status of their transactions. The app can help all metro passengers. It enables and helps our society inclining towards the cashless and digital economy.Â
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