INDIAN RAILWAYS AND ITS CONTINUING MONOPOLY Indian Railways abbreviated as IR‚ is the state-owned railway company of India‚ which owns and operates most of the country’s rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. Indian Railways has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world‚ transporting over 18 million passengers and more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily. It is the world’s largest commercial or utility employer‚ with more than
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Indian Railways (Hindi: भारतीय रेल Bhāratīya Rail)‚ abbreviated as IR (Hindi: भा.रे.)‚ is the state-owned railway company of India‚ which owns and operates most of the country’s rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. Indian Railways has more than 64‚015 kilometres (39‚777 mi)[5] of track and 6‚909 stations. It has the world’s fourth largest railway network after that of the United States‚ Russia and China.[5] The railways traverse the length and breadth
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SIR.IMRAN SUBMITTED BY: ASIF HAFEEZ‚ USMAN GHANI (083582) SUBMISSTION DATE: 26-12-2011 Contents 1. Introduction -------------------------------------------03 2. Railway Earning ---------------------------------------04 3. Railway Traffic ---------------------------------------05 4. Corporate Profile --------------------------------------09 5. Corporate Direction -----------------------------------09 6. Pricing Profile -----------------------------------------09
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PROJECT REPORT ON: [pic] “INDIAN RAILWAYS” [pic] TABLE OF CONTENTS | I |ACKNOWLEDGEMENT |2 | |1 |INTRODUCTION |4 | |2 |NINE ZONES OF INDIAN RAILWAYS |5
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Introduction: Indian Railways is the nationalized railway company of India which owns and operates most of the country’s rail transport. It is the world’s second largest employer behind Chinese army; has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world‚ an extensive network‚ which is spread over 60000 Route Kilometre‚ of which approximately 30 per cent is electrified. The Indian Railways have played an integrating role in the social and economic development of the country ‚ transporting
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Design of bridges Syllabus • IRC Code • Types of bridges and their components • Basic concepts of bridge design • Design of slab bridge • Design of T-beam bridge (Courbon’s method) IRC Code • IRC – Indian Roads Congress • Three categories of Live loads • Types of vehicles • Placement of vehicles • Description of three category loadings • Permissible stresses and design coeff. Categories of Live loads as per IRC a. IRC Class AA loading i. For bridges subjected to very heavy loading
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Introduction Railways had a big impact in Britain bringing economic and social benefits. People were able to travel greater distances to work or go on holidays for the first time‚ as trains were a cheap and fast way to travel. Manufactures and farmers could sell their goods all over the country and railways created many different jobs. Speed of travel The development of trains effected the owners of coach and canal services badly for them the problem was that the railways were cheaper and a
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Michael Eubanks of Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) is in charge of the implementation of a business intelligence (BI) system for the company. This implementation began in 2003 and was to be completed in 2005. In 2006‚ the project is only in the 2nd of 3 phases. He is now faced with a problem. The implementation is going much slower than he anticipated. His goal is to implement BI as soon as possible‚ so what does he need to do so that he can reach this goal? In order to reach his goal‚ there are
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“Bangladesh Railways: Problems & Prospects and Its Importance to the Development in Tourism Industry” Submitted to : Mr. Saud Ahmed Lecturer Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka Submitted By : The WhizzKidz Name Roll
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Railways and roadways are the two means of transport over the land. Roads can be built in the hilly areas also whereas railway lines cannot be laid easily. The railways have advantage over the roadways that they can carry a large number of passengers and large and heavy loads to long distances. Also journey by train is more comfortable than by bus. Urban cities came up with importance of railways and railways stations in particular. Moreover‚ unlike other industries which become modern over a
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