Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Railways must capitalise

Railways must capitalise

Indian Railways should make the maximum of the investment it made on Mangalore-Bangalore railway route. Otherwise the investment will go
waste, cautioned Syndicate Bank former chairman N K Thingalaya.

Releasing a Kannada book Karavali Karnatakada Arthavyavasthe: Hindininda Indinavarege edited by by G V Joshi and St Aloysius College professor Nobert Lobo at a function held here on Wednesday, Thingalaya expressed strong reservations over reports regarding the decision of the railway authorities not to introduce the day train on this route citing safety reasons.

Modern technology has an answer for all safety related questions. The authorities should install the safety measures and think of tapping maximum returns from this route. Introducing more trains on this route would help the overall development of the interior areas of the state besides bringing more revenue for the railway. Already huge losses have been incurred by closing the route for ten years in the name of gauge conversion. It is high time to think in terms of getting back maximum returns, he said.

According to Thingalaya the railways can run not less than ten trains on this route connecting different parts of the state and country with costal Karnataka. Further, he stated that NH 13 should be developed to connect the interior areas with the costal region.

Replying to felicitation on the occasion G V Joshi, professor emeritus, Mangalore University said the post graduate departments of the universities and the faculties of degree colleges should focus on having better coordination in order to make effective use of the expertise of the teachers for academic growth.

Regretting over the absence of coordination between the teachers in the PG departments and the teachers in degree colleges, he said the existing rules too does not encourage having such coordination.

Giving example of the Mangalore University, he said there were many talented persons working as lecturers in the affiliated colleges but their talents were not being used in the PG studies. The subject knowledge, wisdom and experience of these talented persons should be made available to the students through proper channel and forums. Seminars and workshops would be more meaningful and nearer to the subject if local experts were invited and made to share their views. This also helps the academic field to grow in right direction, he said.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

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Indian Railway PNR

PNR is an important number that is written on the top left corner of an Indian Rail Ticket. The abbreviation PNR stands for Passenger Name Record. Actually, PNR is a travel record of a person or a group of persons in the database of Computer Reservation System (CRS). In practical terms, PNR has five parts that are essential in order to get a booking done. The five parts or requisites of PNR number are as follows.

* Passenger(s) Name
* Travel Agent's Contact Details
* Details of Ticket (could be a ticket number or ticketing time limit)
* Itinerary as a minimum of one segment that should be similar for all passengers listed.
* Person's Name, who makes the booking

After the completion of requirements, the CRS issues a unique alpha-numeric record locator that remains same in spite of any extra changes made. The online queries regarding PNR can be obtained from the Computerized Reservation Applications that are available for Public from 08:00 hrs to 20:00 IST on weekdays and from 08:00 hrs to 14:00 hrs IST on Sundays (these timings are prone to change without notification).