No charging of mobile and laptops on board trains at night: Indian Railways
Indian Railways has decided not to allow passengers from using mobile and laptop charging stations onboard trains between 11 pm and 5 am, the news agency PTI reported.
The development has been taken as a precautionary measure against the spread of fire, the senior officials said.
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On March 16, Western Railway had cut the supply to charging ports on board trains between 11 pm and 5 pm.
CPRO of Western Railway, Sumit Thakur, said that it was an instruction by the Railway Board for all railways and it has started on March 16.
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Meanwhile, Southern Railway CPRO B Guganesan said that these instructions were not new and a reiteration of earlier orders of the Railway Board.
In 2014, the Commissioner of Railway Safety had recommended switching off charging stations between 11 pm and 5 am. This came after a fire incident in the Bangalore-Hazur Sahib Nanded Express.
Guganesan said that in view of the recent fire incidents, we have done the needful as it was a precautionary measure. The power for these points will be switched off from 11 pm to 5 am."
Recently, a fire broke out in a coach of the Dehradun-bound Shatabdi Express in a suspected case of a short circuit on March 13.
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