<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Railway Minister Piyush Goyal today directs the Railways General Managers to improve punctuality significantly by introducing planned integrated blocks for maintenance. </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Reviewing the performance of North Central, North Eastern and East Central Railways in New Delhi, Mr Goyal reiterated that punctuality of the trains needs to be improved without affecting the routine maintenance work related to Safety of passengers. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He urged General Managers to holistically plan weekly integrated traffic blocks of long duration. Mr Goyal said these planned integrated blocks may be advertised well in advance so that the passengers are well informed about the blocks and any inconvenience to them may be minimized.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">    </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Taking slew of decisions to improve punctuality, the Minister has instructed that the third line project between Allahabad- Mughalsarai is to be taken on high priority to minimize congestion in Delhi- Mughalsarai route. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mr Goyal emphasized that if required, additional rakes and coaches shall be given to Zones to improve punctuality and minimize time loss in case of delayed trains arriving at terminating stations. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He directed that all Zonal Railways should do root cause analysis based upon passenger feedback to identify the real cause of passenger inconvenience and take the corrective steps. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>