Inaccuracies in furnishing arrival and departure timings at the national train inquiry system will soon be a thing of the past as the Indian Railways is all set to go high-tech with the launching of an IT-enabled control charting system.
Estimated to cost Rs 86 crores (Rs 860 million), the system will monitor and control the movement of all trains across the country.
Till now the system for announcement and departure of trains was disjointed as the data had to be fed manually, causing a considerable time gap since the information had to be passed from one station to another.
"So many times passengers did not get accurate forecast about the