{"id":51519,"date":"2018-06-25T13:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=51519"},"modified":"2018-06-25T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:11:30","slug":"workshop-mission-raftar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/workshop-mission-raftar\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop \u2018Mission Raftar\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- Recently, the Ministry of Railways organized a one-day workshop &#8216;Mission Raftar in New Delhi. What was the purpose of mission Raftar?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Increase the average speed of freight and passenger trains up to 24 km. \/ h in the next five years.<br \/>\n(b) Increase the average speed of freight and passenger trains up to 25 km. \/ h during the next 4 years.<br \/>\n(c) Increase the average speed of freight and passenger trains up to 25 km. \/ h during the next 5 years.<br \/>\n(d) Increase the average speed of freight and passenger trains up to 30 km. \/ h in the next 5 years.<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (c)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On May 30th, 2018, Ministry of Railways conducted a one day workshop \u201cMission Raftar\u201d in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>This mission aimed at raising the average speed of freight trains and coaching trains.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of the mission is to increase the average speed of freight and passenger trains to 25 km \/ h in the next five years.<\/li>\n<li>The average speed of freight trains is 24 km. \/ h while the average speed of passenger trains (excluding suburban trains) is 44 km. \/ h.<\/li>\n<li>The main railway route under the Golden Quadrilateral is Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Howrah, Howrah-Chennai, Chennai-Mumbai and Howrah-Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>These routes operate 58 percent freight traffic and 52 percent passenger traffic, which is only 15 percent of the railway network.<\/li>\n<li>The workshop was inaugurated by Shri Rajen Gohain, Minister of State for Railways &amp; Shri Ashwani Lohani, Chairman, Railway Board.<\/li>\n<li>Also, host of issues ranging from punctuality, rolling stock, removing bottlenecks in terms of traffic, elimination of Unmanned Level crossings were discussed.<\/li>\n<li>Indian Railways is enthusiastically taking up all the issues with the determination to find the solution in a time bound manner.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Minister also stated that coal loading was highest i.e. 555 MT in 2017-18.<\/li>\n<li>In last three months, 18.7% increase is witnessed in coal loading. Ministry of Railways &amp; Coal is coordinating well so as to ensure there is no shortage of coal in power plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintHindiRelease.aspx?relid=72495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintHindiRelease.aspx?relid=72495<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=179647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=179647<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- Recently, the Ministry of Railways organized a one-day workshop &#8216;Mission Raftar in New Delhi. What was the purpose of mission Raftar? (a) Increase the average speed of freight and passenger trains up to 24 km. \/ h in the next five years. (b) Increase the average speed of freight and passenger trains up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":51233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[2334],"class_list":["post-51519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","tag-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}