6000 Railway stations will be Wifi enabled

New Delhi : Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal said that around 6000 railway stations will be WiFi-enabled in the next six to eight months. Speaking at the ‘Smart Railways Conclave’ organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Goyal said that the railways was focusing on smarter project implementation.
He said railways is working on a programme to ensure the last mile connectivity wherever we do not have fibre optics in our network. We are hopeful that in the next six-to-eight months, all railway stations, other than the halt stations, about 6000 stations will be WiFi-enabled. On punctuality of trains, the minister said that between April 1 and today, punctuality has improved to 73-74 percent as the railways has made a change by replacing the manual recording of time by station masters with data loggers placed at interchange points across the network that ensure computer generated time. We are working on putting a GPS device on every locomotive so that we will have every train marked on mobile phone, knowing exactly where they are.