INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Indian Railways cancel, terminate or reschedule trains on a daily basis owing to a host of factors
Central Railway, one of the divisions of railways, informed about the list of rescheduled trains on microblogging website Twitter
Lately, the services of the railways have been hit by heavy monsoon rains
In cases of a cancellation of a train, IRCTC or Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, the ticketing arm of Indian Railways,
and Rajdhani ran around 30 per cent and 22 per cent late respectively during the last two months.The minister said that between April and
June, the punctuality of trains was affected due to large scale maintenance work being carried out on the tracks
He said railways took 4.6 lakh hours for such work during April-June 2018 as against 4.11 lakh hours during the same period in 2017
It is 11.89 per cent more than the last year.
