No charging of telephones, laptops in trains from 11 pm to five am: Railways

Passengers won’t be allowed to cost telephones, laptops and different digital units in trains between 11 pm and 5 am in view of the latest spate of fireplace incidents in trains.
Railways has taken this resolution as a precautionary measure, officers mentioned.
The Western Railway already put issues in movement on March 16 by chopping off provide to those charging ports.
The directions are, nonetheless, not new.
In 2014, citing a Commissioner of Railway Safety suggestion, Railway Board had instructed all zones to modify off charging factors between 11 pm and 5 am, quickly after a fireplace incident within the Bangalore-Hazur Sahib Nanded Express.
“In view of the recent incidents of fire, we have done the needful. It is a precautionary measure and even earlier the Railway Board had issued such orders. The power from the main switchboard for these points will be switched off from 11 pm to 5 am,” an official mentioned.