Indian Railway: Soon, stream free movies & TV shows on your train journeys; Piyush Goyal says you'll love it

In a major boost Indian Railways, attempts are being made by Railway Ministry-led by Union Minister Piyush Goyal which will allow passengers to watch movies, shows, web series and much more during ir train journey. As per media reports, ministry decided to work with RailTel, a "Miniratna" enterprise to provide free content on-demand to railway passengers on ir personal devices. 

application will provide multilingual content which has been preloaded on it, including movies, music, music video, TV serials, and or general entertainment. As per officials, passengers will enjoy buffer-free high-quality streaming of entertainment on ir devices.

Taking to Twitter, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal confirmed reports saying that "passengers will love this!". He added saying "soon, stream favourite movies, shows, and music on trains and stations". 

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A pilot project will be initiated in which content-on-demand app with preloaded content would be made available on stations which already offer free-WiFi service by RailTel. Following completion of project of Indian Railways to enable WiFi on over 4,000 more stations by end of 2019, app with streaming content would be made available se stations and trains as well. This initiative will help in n-fare revenue generation for Indian Railways.

Earlier in July, Union Minister Piyush Goyal had spoken about recently inaugurated executive waiting lounges at railway stations. Taking to Twitter, Goyal had asked people to experience state-of--art executive lounges at railway stations - a new addition to railway amenities. se include state-of-art facilities like recliner seats and couches, dining halls and many or features which were opened up for people by Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC). se add-ons at railway station appear to be thing short of airport-like facilities.

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