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@Ananth_IRAS Is the washing plant operational, most have been discarded.

From my room on the 6th floor, watching the freight powerhorse - WAG-12 - hauling a freight rake through the Ghorpadi station yard. In the foreground to the bottom right of the photo is the coach washing plant of the Coaching shed! #IndianRailways

@CIDCO_Ltd @CMOMaharashtra @mieknathshinde Has Cidco given sanction for the installation of suction/booster pump to any society or villages coming under Sector 8 in Ulwe. If yes how many, to whom and what hp. @girishdmahajan

@varunkrish Hitachi. Mitsubishi and O'General are good but service is an issue. Hitachi is owned by Bosch now.

Looking to pick up a 2.0 Ton inverter AC. Have had a good experience with Panasonic ACs previously. Any other brands I should consider?

@S1314767051241 @akshaywcam1 @drmmumbaicr @srdomcogbbcr Basically they don't have spare rakes and are running a hand to mouth operation.

@Manojkrishnan74 @akshaywcam1 @drmmumbaicr @srdomcogbbcr They are not in service but and they cancelled the ac services on main line because one of the ac emu rake 7055 has been sent to harbour and existing ac rake is getting repaired 7067

Why is this being done inspite of having many spare AC rakes?? @drmmumbaicr @srdomcogbbcr suburban Passengers are last priority for CR

@RailwaySeva Both toilets at TNA on platform 1 and 2 have been demolished and the reconstruction is at a slow pace. Causing lot of inconvenience to passengers.

@Riyaghoshm Video is fake

When humanity forgot its duty, Gau Mata remembered compassion. A silent guardian stepped forward where humans stood still. With gentle strength, she protected the innocent life.

@rgs_sharma @bykarthikreddy Ofcourse they deserve, buy by paying the price. If in Mumbai a person can't spend atleast 1000 rs for a monthly pass, they shouldn't be here. Even villagers pay higher bus fares than the artificially kept low pass rates in Mumbai.

@Manojkrishnan74 @bykarthikreddy Why not give the same facility.. Capex and Running cost.. shouldn't much higher EMU Racks are same !! People deserve better quality of life..

MUMBAI LOCAL UPGRADE : This isn't a sealed pressure cooker like many are quoting. The ventilation has been engineered, precisely because officials knew open-door airflow would be lost. - The train has Louvered/slatted doors and windows, that allows continuous airflow even when closed. - Has Larger windows (1,900 mm vs. ~900 mm in older rakes) with sliding glass panes. - Upgrade has Forced ventilation system: Two roof-mounted high-capacity blowers per coach (each ~10,000 m³/hour → 20,000 m³/hour) that actively push fresh air in. It's built on an AC EMU shell but with "fan mode" on steroids.

@rajtoday This is not underslung.

One more AC EMU local train heads towards Mumbai. This one is said to be captured at Arakkonam. With due credit to the one who took the video

@rgs_sharma @bykarthikreddy People pay higher fares in metro's and travel, but the same people will crib about suburban travel after paying dirt cheap prices.

If Metros can be AC, why not Suburbans? Why the fancy of Babus to think that only they can travel in AC Cars and have Centrally AC offices Little extra Capex on AC EMUs and running cost is the least citizens expect in hot n humid climate.. So, stop this nonsense of blowers and windows. You can't stand 15 mins in open in humid climate.

@rajtoday Even the first class in these coaches have cushions, but the AC EMU has none making long journeys painful.

Non-AC door closing EMU local train that arrived at Kurla carshed in Mumbai. Here are the key differences: *The coach is built on an AC EMU shell, but maintaining the various classes of first class (with cushion seats), ladies, the disabled one and others. Hence though vestibular, it has physical partitions to segregate these coaches. *The windows are wider 1,900m with sliding glass panels like buses as compared to 900m windows in existing trains. *The blowers are powerful forcing 10,000 cubic m/hr air into the coach, with two such units in every coach which means 20,000 cubic m/hr air in each coach. *The leg space between the two seats has been increased for a comfortable seating and wider gangway. *The luggage compartment at either end of the train is two times larger than the existing ones. *The doors have been shut and along with glass panels on the top, to improve air circulation, these coaches feature louvered doors (slatted) that allow air movement while keeping doors closed for safety.

@anirudhganu @Indirakkdi @TCS As suspected from Kerala.

This is Sudeep Kunnumal, the incompetent "Chief Human Resources Officer" at @TCS , under whose watch the Employment Jihad flourished unchecked at their Nashik Campus. If he has any shame left, he should resign. #ShameonTCS

@MDS356370 Lots of voters from Gulf countries couldn't make it due to high ticket fares.

BJP will have MLAs from Palakkad, Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram districts. Very low turnout in Manjeshwar. If BJP has mobilized all its voters, KS may just cross the bridge. I am seeing 50-50 chances in Kasaragod, Thiruvananthapuram, Kattakkada, Thiruvalla and Nattika.

@Fintech03 Hope it's not another scam like Maytas and other Hyderabad based construction companies.

I was digging into MEIL & came away genuinely proud, a bootstrapped company executing across such a wide spectrum of infra job at this scale. As an engineer & an Indian, this was deeply satisfying to discover. (Just a fan post) In 1989, P.P. Reddy started Megha Engineering Enterprises in a tiny fabrication shed in Balanagar, Hyderabad, with just 2 employees. Their 1st contract was not a dam/a highway; it was making tiny pipes for local municipalities. Now look at a few of the diverse works executed by them; 1. At the Polavaram project, MEIL is using Plastic Concrete, a specially engineered flexible mix. To build the massive 1.5 km long Diaphragm Wall (1 of the world’s largest), standard rigid concrete would crack under the earth’s natural shifting & seismic stresses. They developed a mix using bentonite slurry & specialized polymers that gives the concrete high flexibility while maintaining strength. This allows the wall to absorb movement w/o failing. MEIL engineered a hybrid material that behaves like stiff jelly underground: a smart solution to prevent seepage & potential structural failure in 1 of India’s most ambitious irrigation projects. 2. MEIL owns a company called ICOMM Tele Limited. ICOMM is a key partner for the DRDO, manufacturing components for the Agni & Akash missile systems, as well as specialized electronic warfare shelters. They recently partnered with UAE’s CARACAL to manufacture snipers & assault rifles in India. 3. Everyone talks about their dams & highways, few know about MEIL’s growing expertise in advanced trenchless technology. MEIL has successfully executed complex Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) projects, including long under-river pipeline crossings, w/o disturbing the surface ecosystem. 4. The Gayatri Pumphouse (Package 8) is the world’s largest underground pumping station. To build it, MEIL had to excavate a cavern so massive that you could fit 3 football stadiums inside it, 140m underground. The pumps used there (139 MW each) are so powerful that just 1 pump consumes more electricity than many mid-sized Indian cities. These are just a few examples… the sheer scale they operate at is something we almost have to pause & take in.

@DesiUrbanist Don't think rakes operating on the harbour line are switched to the main line at CSMT.

For those who are wondering how did I manage to sleep 5 hours on a single train and why did it take me another two hours to reach my office. Basically I did a 395 km journey across 3 different lines on Mumbai's suburban rail network in a single train, covering more than two thirds of thenetwork in a day just because I was too sleepy. 😂 I started off from Goregaon, the northwestern terminus of Harbour Line for Panvel, the southeastern terminus of Harbour Line on a limited service direct (through train) service but i slept on the train because I was too tired. Meanwhile the train reached Panvel, reversed for CSMT, (the southern terminus of Harbour Line as well as Central Main Line, instead of Goregaon. Here it switched from Harbour Line to Central Line and became a CSMT-Kasara fast (Express/Rapid) service lol. @TonamiPlayman @RM_Transit @JRUrbaneNetwork

@Tradewith_kd But within warranty if we get service done from outside, the company can always deny warranty claim later.

@gp30543 @bhaumikgowande @Central_Railway @icfindrlys The time taken for an ac local to come to a halt open the doors, close them and leave is much more than a non ac local. And to top it off, these locals have faced multiple door opening failures which will have a cascading effect on the time table during peak hours.

@Manojkrishnan74 @bhaumikgowande @Central_Railway The issue isn't limited to AC Local. What happened today at MLND can happen with any train. This puts the quality of parts used by @icfindrlys in manufacturing & maintenance by CR to question.

Would been absolute fun if @bhaumikgowande have joined today. AC Local stranded at Mulund for 10mins, further affecting the Up Fast Traffic. Thank You @Central_Railway

@rajtoday Makes no sense, LHB coaches made by RCF/ MCF use use b nyl stickers instead of paint for the exterior. That's a bigger hazard.

Spare the windows!!! That’s the trending complaint of many Mumbai AC local commuters. Vinyl ads pasted on train windows are blocking the outside view, with some passengers even missing stations. On Central Railway, complaints also point to poor-quality pasting of the vinyl. Advertising professionals have also raised concerns about possible fire hazards from such materials.

@aparanjape @cjaisree @DGCAIndia @MoCA_GoI @mohol_murlidhar @RamMNK Should be enforced in all public transport and public places. Has become a nuisance.

We need prominent signs at all airports (and announcements in flights) about NOT USING MOBILE PHONES IN SPEAKER MODE (for calls, watching videos, etc.) in waiting areas, in planes... basically in any public area. cc @DGCAIndia @MoCA_GoI @mohol_murlidhar @RamMNK Need a public campaign for this ....should be extended for all public transit (railways and bus too).