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North Central Railways: About NCR RASTA & Yatri RASTA App for employees & passengers
North Central Railways: About NCR RASTA & Yatri RASTA App for employees & passengers: Details, Features, Aim, Highlights
The North Central Railways (NCR) recently on 19th October 2018, has unveiled two mobile applications, NCR RASTA app (Railway Assets Summarised Tracking Application) for its railway employees and Yatri RASTA app (Railway Approach to Station Tracking Application) for passengers, respectively, for locating assets and stations.
NCR Rasta & Yatri Rasta apps are aimed at helping to fulfill twin objectives of better passenger service and asset maintenance by using cutting-edge technology and for handling emergencies.
NCR RASTA App: It is for use of railway officers and staff and has the exact mapping of all railway assets. It will enable railway staff to reach the desired asset using Google Navigation in case of an emergency.
Yatri RASTA App: It will allow the general public to locate railway stations easily. It is already available for smartphones running on Android and can be downloaded free of cost from Google Play Store.
About North Central Railway (NCR)
North Central Railway (NCR) is one of the seventeen railway zones in India.
NCR is headquartered at Allahabad and comprises three divisions Allahabad, Jhansi, and Agra.
It is known as Workhorse of Indian Railways and is also referred to as heartbeat of Indian Railways. It spans over parts of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh with about 3062 route km of Broad Gauge comprising predominately, double line-electrified sections defining sides and diagonals of Golden Quadrilateral.
The largest railway station in NCR is Kanpur Central.
