The Minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee flagged off Commonwealth Express Tain, a special exhibition train to spread awareness about sports and Information Technology from the Safdarjung railway station today.

This train consists of 11 coaches out of which five coaches have been allocated to Railway Sports Promotion Board and rest to Department of Information Technology.

In this exhibition train, Department of Information & Technology will showcase the capacity and the work done in the country in the area of Information and Communication technology and the initiatives carried out by the Department of Information Technology and its affiliated entities in the fields of e-governance, infrastructure, technology relevant to rural India, language interfacing technology etc. The ‘IT Story of India’ will be told through the six coaches by way of backlit translites, front-lit digitally printed posters, short informational films etc. To reach out to the common man in as effective manner as possible, the content of the backlit translites will be made available in regional languages in addition to English, and the language changeover will happen in ten languages (as and when the train enters such a State).

Also present on the occasion were Sheila Dikshit, the Chief Minister of Delhi, K.H. Muniyappa, the Union Minister of State for Railways and Sachin Pilot, the Union Minister of State for Communication & Information Technology.