Indian Railways is the world’s ninth largest place in commercial or utility employer, by the number of employees, with more than 1.4 million employees.
2. INDIAN RAILWAY - WORLD’S LARGEST RECRUITER
Indian Railways is the world’s ninth largest place in commercial or utility
employer, by the number of employees, with more than 1.4 million employees.
Indian Railway is one of the world’s largest Railway networks which containing
115,100 km of track over a route of 65,100 km and 7,500 stations across the
country.
As of now railway is transporting over 30 million passengers to their destination
daily. Indian Railways were first introduced to India in 1853 and in 1951 the
organization was nationalized as one unit, later on the Indian Railways become
one of the largest networks in the world.
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4. IMPORTANT INDIAN RAILWAY FACTS
It runs about 14,300 trains daily
IR has about 7,000 railway stations
The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length
Nehru Setu on Sone River is the longest Railway bridge
42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence
Electric Locomotives are manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan
Coaches are manufactured at ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru
The national Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977
5. LIST OF RRB’S IN INDIA
There are 21 RRB’s are In India
1. RRB Ahmedabad 9. RRB Thiruvananthapuram 17. RRB Patna
2. RRB Ajmer 10. RRB Gorakhpur 18. RRB Ranchi
3 RRB Allahabad 11. RRB Guwahati 19. RRB Secunderabad
4. RRB Bhopal 12. RRB Jammu & Srinagar 20. RRB Chennai
5. RRB Bhubaneswar 13. RRB Kolkata 21. RRB Silguri
6. RRB Bilaspur 14. RRB Malda
7. RRB Chandigarh 15. RRB Mumbai
8 .RRB Chennai 16. RRB Muzaffarpur
6. RAILWAY DEPARTMENTS
1.Engineering Department 10. Accounts Department
2. Mechanical Engineering & Power (Transportation) Department 11. Personnel Department
3. Electrical Engineering Department 12. Security Department
4. Signal & Telecommunication Engineering Department
5. Operating and Traffic (Transportation) Department
6. Commercial Department
7. Medical Department
8. Safety Department
9. Stores Department