It seems as if the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has started taking interest in his Parliamentarian activities too as on Friday he has put up his first question in the Rajya Sabha. It has been 3 years since he has been nominated in Rajya Sabha and for the first time he has shown signs that he is going to start his innings in Rajya Sabha actively by asking a question in written to the Ministry of Railways, while his second question has been addressed to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways which deals with the matter of provisional changes in relation to issuance of driving licenses and is supposed to be answered on December 7. Sachin is also a Member of Parliament Committee on Information Technology from 1 Sept, 2015.
On Friday, Sachin Tendulkar asked this question to Ministry of Railways, “Will the Minister of Railways be pleased to state the rationale behind creating a new zone for Kolkata Metro and whether it can be replicated in other cities such as Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi that also have similar suburban rail services; the criteria that a suburban railway system must fulfill to enable it to be notified as a separate zone; and whether the above three cities fulfill that criteria and are eligible for being notified as separate zones?”
In reply to Sachin’s question, Manoj Sinha, the Minister of State, Railways answered, “After taking this into consideration along with operational, administrative and other factors, the zonal railway status was granted to Metro Railway, Kolkata to, inter-alia, help this organization in its operations and in further expansion. In the Indian Railway system operational in other cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, the suburban railway traffic is run along with the mainline traffic, i.e. unified operation of all types of trains takes place on the same infrastructure viz. track, bridges, signalling, Over Head Equipment (OHE), etc. Creation of exclusive zones for suburban systems, operated by Indian Railways, in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai is not envisaged as segregation of suburban, non-suburban, freight traffic, etc. is not possible in these cities.”
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