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(PIB NEWS) June,24,The Minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee flagged off Commonwealth Express Train, a special exhibition train to spread awareness about sports and Information Technology especially among the youth and among the masses in general, from here today. The first stop of this train will be at Amritsar on 25th to coincide with event of arrival of Queen’s Baton of Commonwealth Games. After covering major cities in the country, this exhibition train will conclude its journey in Delhi on 1st October 2010. It will be available for public viewing on 1st & 2nd October 2010 at Safdarjung Railway station.This train consists of 11 coaches out of which five coaches have been allocated to Railway Sports Promotion Board to showcase the history of Commonwealth Games, details of the venues of the events to be held in the month of October, 2010 in Delhi, to spread general awareness about different sports and to give wide publicity to the sports icons of India who have brought laurels to the country with their stupendous feats. Besides, one coach is exclusively dedicated to the Railway Sports Promotion Board to showcase their history, activities as well as achievements Railway sports persons at national and international level.
In this exhibition train, Department of Information & Technology will showcase the capacity and the work done in the country in the area of Information and Communication technology and the initiatives carried out by the Department of Information Technology and its affiliated entities in the fields of e-governance, infrastructure, technology relevant to rural India, language interfacing technology etc. The ‘IT Story of India’ will be told through the six coaches by way of backlit translites, front-lit digitally printed posters, short informational films etc. To reach out to the common man in as effective manner as possible, the content of the backlit translites will be made available in regional languages in addition to English, and the language changeover will happen in ten languages (as and when the train enters such a State). Also present on the occasion were Smt. Sheila Dikshit, the Chief Minister of Delhi, Shri K.H. Muniyappa, the Union Minister of State for Railways, Shri Sachin Pilot, the Union Minister of State for Communication & Information Technology, Shri Vivek Sahai, Chairman, Railway Board, board members and other senior official from the Ministry of Railways and Ministry Communication & Information Technology.
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