Goyal, who is currently in Sweden, said that WiFi service is available at around 5150 railway stations in India. “We are trying to provide WiFi services at all 6,500 stations by end of next year,” Goyal told ANI.
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Piyush Goyal said that WiFi service is available at around 5150 railway stations in India
Goyal said that in another four-five years, Railways will be 100 per cent electric
When asked about providing WiFi service inside trains, Goyal said, “It is a more complicated technology subject. Giving WiFi in running trains requires investment… Towers need to be put and there has to be equipment inside trains. In this, we might have to bring in foreign technology and investors.”
He added, “But it will help a lot in terms of security as CCTVs would be there in every train compartment and its live feed will go to the police station. The signalling system will work in a better manner through WiFi facility. In the next four or four-and-a-half years, we will start this facility.”
Meanwhile, Goyal told media here, “We are doing station modernisation with the help of private players as we did in Bhopal for instance where a private company has modernised the entire station and it is near in completion. NBCC is working in 12-13 location to modernise the station and simultaneously to develop the complexes for housing, commercial activity, shopping malls in a cross-subsidy model, once this model becomes successful there will be faster rollout across the country.”
Trains To Get Onboard WiFi Service: Indian Railways
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