Question: Recently Ministry of Railways, has decided to post Station Directors at all A-1 Category railway stations, there are how many A-1 Category railway stations in India?
(a) 76
(b) 78
(c) 65
(d) 75
Ans: (d)
Related facts:
- On 2 November 2016 Ministry of Railways, has decided to post Station Directors at all A-1 Category railway stations.
- Presently there are 75 A-1 Category railway stations in India.
- The deployment of Station Director will be done in phases to begin with Station Directors have been posted at 12 such stations namely are:
1. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) Mumbai
2. Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) Mumbai
3. Mumbai Central
4. Delhi
5. New Delhi
6. Secunderabad
7. Chennai Central
8. .Bengaluru City
9. Howrah
10. Sealdah
11. Ahmedabad and
12. Jaipur. - The remaining 63 A-1 Category railway station will be manned with Station Directors by the end of this year.
- Station Directors will ensure that the stations function as excellence centers for the customers with the additional objective to ensure vigilant and sensitive customer service and also superior commercial sense.
- They will also be actively involved in the process of raising revenue from ‘non fare box’ like commercial advertisement, etc. at that station.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=153188