Railway administration in the wake of Ajmer Urs fair has extended the run of train number 12181/12182 Jabalpur-Jaipur Dayodaya Express up to Ajmer from May 6.
Train number 12181 Jabalpur-Jaipur Dayodaya express will run up to Ajmer Railway Station from May 6 to May 20. Train number 12182 Jaipur-Jabalpur express will depart from Ajmer Railway Station from May 7 till May 21. The train will run under new train number 09719/09720 as the Urs Fair Special train between Jaipur and Ajmer.
Dayodaya Express, which has 18 sleeper coaches, will have two added sleeper coaches in the wake of Urs fair.
Meanwhile, West Central Railway Employee Union (WCREU) and West Central Railway Mazdoor Sangh (WCRMS) have been given affiliation by the Railway Board on Friday.
The registered trade unions are affiliated by the Railway Board through hidden voting, in which each trade union requires atleast 35 per cent or more votes for affiliation.
Four trade unions including WCRMS and WCREU participated in the election for affiliation. WCREU received 43.56 per cent votes while WCRMS received 41.15 per cent votes and thus got affiliated by the Railway Board.
West Central Railway (WCR) vigilance department organized 'Rail Week' award ceremony on Friday.
On this occasion Vigilance Examiner Sadiq Khan was awarded with General Manager level personal award for excellence in work and Kumari Jagruti, Kaushik Sengupta, RK Singh, Jitendra Kumar, Sunil Kumar Singh, Mithilesh Maurya and others received General Manager level Group award for excellent team work.
Senior Deputy General Manager (DGM) and Vigilance Officer Ram Gopal awarded NK Verma, SK Jain, Sandeep Yadav, DK Soni, AR Chowdhury, Rajendra Upadhyay, Rajneesh Kurriya, Alok Agarwal, Harish Kumar Tiwari, HS Pandey, Shivnath Dohare, Atul Mishra, Sandeep Shukla and Arvind Pandey were awarded DGM level award.