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RailOne App launched: One-stop solution for all passenger services
Indian Railways is moving ahead with the aim of providing modern infrastructure, world-class
passenger facilities, connectivity in every corner, and support to industries, along with creating
new jobs. In this segment, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the RailOne
app. Through this app, passengers can book unreserved and platform tickets with a 3 per cent
discount. Along with this, facilities like live train tracking, complaint redressal, e-catering, porter
booking, and last-mile taxi can also be availed. Reservation of tickets on IRCTC will continue.
RailOne has a single sign-on facility, in which login can be done through M-PIN or biometrics.
To enhance passenger safety Railways has decided to install CCTV cameras in all coaches.

Railways set to provide more than
1 lakh jobs in 2 years
The Railway Recruitment Board is set to provide
employment to more than 1 lakh people within 2
years. More than 50 thousand candidates are set
to be recruited during the financial year 2025-26.
Out of these, 9 thousand candidates have been
Indian toys making mark in global appointed in the first quarter of this financial year. A
market, exporting to 153 countries target of 50 thousand recruitment has also been set
in the next financial year, i.e., 2026-27. Notification
India’s toy industry, which was once dependent on has already been issued in this regard. Since 2024,
imports, is now exporting toys to 153 countries after the Railways has announced 1.08 lakh vacancies.
the promotion of manufacturing at the domestic level. To ensure fair and transparent examinations,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ the Railways is implementing Aadhaar-based
program in August 2020, made a stirring appeal to authentication. Additionally, electronic jammers
the public. Initiatives like approval of 100% foreign are being used at examination centres to prevent
investment, toy clusters, mandatory certification on cheating through electronic devices.
import of foreign toys, the National Toy Action Plan,
and e-Toycathon 2025 have resulted in a 52 % reduction
in toy imports in India in 2022-23 as compared to
2014-15. At the same time, exports have increased by
239 percent. The central government is now planning to
launch a new incentive scheme for the toy sector. At the
16th Toy Biz International B2B Expo 2025 held in New
Delhi, the central government announced the launch of
another new incentive scheme for the toy sector.

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