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An informal but useful Meeting in CO I was at Mumbai last week in response to the invitation extended by our Mumbai Assn for  attending their AGM on 17/6. As I had reached a day earlier our President and myself along with Sri Sawant, utilised time by visiting CO and met Senior Officers particularly in the Legal and Personnel (ER) departments. The Chairman and the concerned MD being by on a daylong meeting, we could not meet them. From the interaction with the CO Officials, we could get the following impression. 1) LIC is probably not going to agitate against the DHC judgement .The  CO is now engaged in working out the cost of implementing the .29 &.23 formula on DR for pre 97 retirees. On their specific query, we could not avoid mentioning that AIIPA and AIRIEF are also contemplating similar action like us by approaching the SC. 2) On   medical scheme the suggestions made by us and others including reimbursement of Domiciliary medical expenses are under considerat

:  < sureshprabhu@irctc.co.in > Date: Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:30 AM Subject: Ministry OF Railways - Achievements & Initiatives To:  arunachalam.m9@gmail.com Dear Friend, As always it gives me immense pleasure to write to you again. It is our Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's firm belief that Railways can give Gati and Pragati to the nation.We are driven by his vision to make Indian Railways the growth engine of our country. As I look back at the financial year gone by, I can say that we had many success and few misses. I am satisfied but not content.Innovative policies which we introduced have started giving dividends resulting in increase in both passenger and freight traffic. We reversed trend of declining number of passengers and carried 8221 million passengers which is 70 Million more than the last year. I would like to thank all my stakeholders for the connect and their trust on Indian Railways. To remove bottlenecks, which are created beca

Renowned English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking speaks on “the future of humanity” at the Starmus Festival, in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim on Tuesday, June 20. The fourth Starmus International Festival celebrates astronomy, space exploration, chemistry, physics, art and medicine; it will run from June 18 until June 23 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.