India to rename railway ‘coolies’ in modernization drive
New Delhi: India Thursday said it will roll out wifi to hundreds of stations, install 17,000 hi-tech toilets on trains and professionalize its unskilled porters, or “coolies” under a drive to modernize its creaking railways.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu steered away from introducing contentious passenger fare hikes or freight rate increases as…
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