TELEPHONES AND INTERNET AT RAILWAY
STATIONS
The Ministry
of Railways has issued detailed guidelines to the Zonal Railways
for provision of railway stations through which travelers at stations
can communicate with their near and dear ones on payment of usual
charges.
The RailTel Corporation
of India, a public sector undertaking of the Ministry of Railways,
has already set up an Internet Kiosk at platform 12 of New Delhi
Station and will set up 200 such Kiosks at various stations in
the first phase. Later, similar facilities will be set up at all
the railway stations.
Internet facility
in one of the trains is proposed to be set up shortly.
Meanwhile, telephone
services are available in four pairs of Shatabdi Express trains.
These are : 2005/2006 New Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Express, 2011/2012
New Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Express 2013/2014 New Delhi-Amritsar
Shatabdi Express and 2029/2030 New Delhi Delhi-Amritsar Swarna
Shatabdi Express.
