Which Railway Stations have free internet Facility ?  

Which Railway Stations have free internet Facility ?

In September 2015, the Indian Railways announced it’s partnership with the tech gaint google to provide free Wi-Fi services to 400 railway stations across the country. In January 2016, Mumbai central station had become the first railway station in India to have free Wi-Fi facility and now in May 2017,  the service has been extended to 117 more railway stations.

The project has been named as Nilgiri. Under this initiative, free Wi-Fi services will be provided to passengers in 400 railway stations across the country. Users will be able to access high speed internet for the first 30 minutes. A special one time password has been generated for this purpose and users will be able to access free internet by using it. The connection of the users will still be active after 30 minutes of internet usage. However, after 30 minutes, the speed will drop and become slow.

The project employs Google’s Fiber technology. Under Fiber technology, the company provides internet services up to a speed of 1 Gigabits per second. Google Fiber was launched in 2010 and the service was available only in United States Of America. Now it’s been available in India. Using satellite communication technology, the Indian Railways is also providing Wi-Fi connectivity in moving trains for selected routes.

According to railways, over 10 million people who pass through these stations every day now have an access to fast Internet speed to stream, research their destination or download a new book or game for the journey ahead. 117 railway stations have free WiFi provided by Google in collaboration with Railtel, a subsidiary of Indian Railways.  Following is the complete list.

1. Andhra Pradesh – irupati, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam & Guntur.

2. Assam – Guwahati.

3. Bihar – Patna, Hajipur, Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Darbhanga, Chhapra & Bhagalpur.

4. Chandigarh

5. Chattisgarh – Raipur, Bilaspur & Durg.

6. Gujarat – Surat, Ahmedabad, Vadodara & Rajkot.

7. Haryana – Ambala Cantt..

8. Jharkhand – Ranchi, Dhanbad Jn. & Tatanagar.

9. Karnataka – Bangalore City, Mangalore Central, Hubli, Gulbarga, Mysore & Yesvantpur.

10. Kerala – Ernakulam Jn, Thiruvananthapuram Central, Thrissur, Kollam Jn & Kozhikode.

11. Madhya Pradesh – Ujjain, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Gwalior & Indore.

12. Maharastra – Mumbai Central, Churchgate, Bandra, Bandra Terminus, Dadar (WR), Dadar (CR), Khar Road, Kalyan, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Byculla, Panvel, Thane, Borivali, Kurla, Andheri, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Belapur, Vashi, Pune, Nagpur, Solapur & Aurangabad.

13. Delhi – Hazarat Nizamuddin, Anand Vihar Terminus, New Delhi & Delhi Jn.

14. Odisha – Bhubaneswar, Cuttack & Puri.

15. Punjab – Jalandhar City, Amritsar & Ludhiana.

16. Rajasthan – Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur City, Kota & Jodhpur.

17. Tamil Nadu (Madurai, Coimbatore, Chennai Egmore, Tambaram, Arakkonam Jn., Tiruchchirappalli, Ooty, Chennai Central, Coonoor & Mettupalayam)

18. Telangana – Kacheguda, Secunderabad, Hyderabad & Warangal.

19. Uttar Pradesh – Jhansi, Lucknow, Lucknow Jn., Ayodhya, Mughalsarai Jn., Gorakhpur, Allahabad, Aligarh, Bareilly, Kanpur, Mathura, Varanasi, Agra Cantt., Ghazipur City, Moradabad, Ghaziaabad.

20. Uttarakhand – Dehradun &  Haridwar.

21. West Bengal – Sealdah, Kharagpur, Asansol, Barddhaman, New Jalpaiguri, Howrah, Darjeeling & Ghoom.