{"id":88576,"date":"2019-12-22T00:49:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=88576"},"modified":"2019-12-22T00:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T19:19:03","slug":"transport-secy-highlights-railway-activities-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/22\/transport-secy-highlights-railway-activities-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport secy highlights railway activities in state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RANGIYA, Dec 21:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh Transport Secretary Dani Salu on Saturday raised several issues pertaining to the activities and functioning of the railways in Arunachal, during a meeting of the Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee of the Northeast Frontier Railway&#8217;s (NFR) Rangiya division here in Assam.<br \/>\nSalu informed reporters that he suggested routing the Dibrugarh-New Delhi Rajdhani Express via the Harmuty-Naharlagun-Rangapara route, and rescheduling the timing of the Guwahati Shatabdi Express from 5 pm to 5:30 pm or 6 pm, with a brief stoppage at the Kamakhya station.<br \/>\nIntroduction of new long-distance trains from Naharlagun to Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore, via Howrah; stepping up security inside the trains; and increasing patrolling at the Naharlagun and Gumto train stations were also brought to their notice.<br \/>\nSalu also called for &#8220;impressing upon the banks to set up ATMs at the Naharlagun railway station, as several requests and appeals have been received from the commuters.&#8221;<br \/>\nWith regard to survey and investigation for a new railway route, Salu urged the committee to &#8220;speed up survey and investigation for new railway lines,&#8221; and sought early construction of a bridge from the Naharlagun railway station to NH 415 in Lekhi for the convenience of railway passengers.<br \/>\nIntroduction of a &#8216;toy train&#8217; within Tawang town and adjacent areas was also discussed, Salu informed.<br \/>\nHe said that NFR Divisional Railway Manager, VA Malegaonkar, informed that the proposal for rerouting the Dibrugarh-Delhi Rajdhani Express and rescheduling the Naharlagun-Itanagar Shatabdi Express is &#8220;under active consideration.&#8221;<br \/>\nMalegaonkar also informed that the Murkong Selek-Dibrugarh daily train service has been introduced, Salu added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANGIYA, Dec 21: Arunachal Pradesh Transport Secretary Dani Salu on Saturday raised several issues pertaining to the activities and functioning of the railways in Arunachal, during a meeting of the Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee of the Northeast Frontier Railway&#8217;s (NFR) Rangiya division here in Assam. Salu informed reporters that he suggested routing the Dibrugarh-New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}