Piyush Goyal launches Rail Drishti Dashboard, says NDA Government has always given its report cards on each of the last five years

NewsBharati    25-Feb-2019
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New Delhi, Feb 25: “Our is an accountable government, We hold ourselves accountable to people’s aspirations”, said Union Minister Piyush Goyal on the launch of Rail Drishti Dashboard.

Rail Drishti Dashboard is an E- platform, which will provide all the information and project status of the Indian Railways.

 

On this occasion, Piyush Goyal said, “ The URL of the portal has been made so simple so that it becomes user-friendly. Those in remote villages can access this and find out everything about railways”.

Further, he added, the need for RTI applications has come down drastically due to the increased transparency in the government procedures.

The E-Drishti provides PNR inquiry, complaints, and grievances, tender inquiry, OPC inquiry, FNR inquiry with Import-Export statistics. This portal gives the status of the train on run in any part of India. This portal also provides IRCTC Kitchen’s live footage.

The railway minister proposed the use of a barcode on food packets in Railways to prioritize the quality of food being served.

“Our ultimate aim is to have a barcode on food packets so people can scan the code which would redirect them to the live feed of the kitchen in which it was prepared,” Goyal said.

However, he said there was still resistance within the system to make IRCTC kitchens live video feed public.

Goyal also added that live CCTV footage of stations may be made public if security agencies give a go-ahead. It shouldn’t become a security risk, Goyal said.

“With this, the redevelopment of the 400-acre slum of Dharavi will get a boost. I grew up near Dharavi, in a way I am paying back a debt to the place. You have seen Gully Boy (film)? That kind of life will be transformed. This has opened the vistas for a huge amount of slum redevelopment across the country,” Goyal said.