Galaxy Travel International got the appointment as local GSA for Indian Railways recently.
The Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, and Ambrish Kumar Gupta, additional member, Traffic-Indian Railway Board, jointly declared the official opening at Gulshan, Dhaka yesterday.
Indian Railways (IR) is an Indian state-owned enterprise, owned and operated by the Government of India through the Ministry of Railways.
It is one of the world’s largest railway networks stretching across 115,000 kilometres of track and 7,112 stations.
In 2014-15, IR carried more than 23 million passengers a day, half of them was roughly suburban passengers and 1058.81 million tonnes were freight.
In the year, Indian Railways had revenues of 1,634.50 billion (US$24 billion) which consists of 1,069.27 billion (US$16 billion) from freight and 402.80 billion (US$6.0 billion) from passengers tickets.
Indian Railways is the world’s seventh largest commercial or utility employer by number of employees, with over 1.376 million employees as of last published figures in 2013.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
