Not only trains, the Railways has been modernizing train stations by incorporating state-of-the-art features and services which would be at par with those available at airports.

The railway board recently passed an order, saying that the separate medical identity card with unique all India number will be issued to the employees as well as to their each dependent.

Some of the features of the new IRCTC website include convenient next generation interface, easy search queries, train search without login and probability of ticket confirmation.

Among the areas where Railways Minister Piyush Goyal is working to double the Railways' revenue are signalling, train punctuality and freight capacity. Indian Railways wants to increase its share of freight from 33 per cent to 45 per cent.

Various departments of a train, viz. pantry, bed rolls, etc will have a separate WhatsApp group, which would be monitored by a senior railway official.

Nearly 30 per cent trains ran late in the financial year 2017-18, making it the Indian Railways' worst punctuality performance in three years. Between April 2017 and March 2018, the punctuality rate of mail and express trains fell to 71.39 per cent, down from 76 per cent previously.

The Uttar Pradesh government recently issued a notification saying the station, a major railway junction in northern India on the Delhi-Howrah line, has been renamed after RSS ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, with Governor Ram Naik giving his assent.

The Indian Railways has taken several initiatives to make passenger service better during train journey. Last week, the IRCTC launched its trial run of environment-friendly, bagasse-based food packaging on eight select Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains originating from New Delhi.

Due to the heavy outpour, trains on the suburban section of the Central Railway were running late by 10-12 minutes. Several parts of Mumbai were waterlogged after rain lashed the city.

Taking precautions in the wake of IMD's forecast warning of a heavy downpour over the weekend, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has cancelled leaves of all the senior employees.

If a passenger is travelling 500 km with luggage weighing 80 kg in the sleeper class, he can book his excess baggage of 40 kg for Rs 109 in the luggage van.

Passengers on these trains would be served meals on eco-friendly bagasse-based disposable plates instead of the polymer ones.

Indian Railways is now stressing on quality over quantity, which means some of the popular items might be taken off the plate.

In the last couple of years, Indian Railways has taken multiple initiatives to make train journey for passengers safer and faster. This year in February, it was reported that the Indian Railways is planning to construct 10,000 km of new high speed corridors to run trains at the speed of 200-250 kmph.

Both railways and transport ministry will work together and put the ambitious project on fast track.

During an internal meeting last week, the Railway Minister told Zonal Managers that they cannot hide behind the pretext of maintenance work to explain delays in train services. He warned the heads of Zonal Railways that delays in train services will defer their annual appraisals.

The idea had come from Railway Minister Piyush Goyal who gave one-year deadline last year to complete the process of inducting the predictive service on the IRCTC website.

Terminal 1 of the IGI Airport has also been connected to the metro network through this corridor that will take the total length of the DMRC network to 277 km.

The Delhi Metro is also touting the Magenta Line as a 'Knowledge Corridor' as four major universities of the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), have been connected on it.