The headquarters of the North Central Railway is at:
- A.Agra
- B.Jhansi
- C.Kanpur
- D.Prayagraj
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Explanation
The correct answer is D, Prayagraj. The North Central Railway was created in 2003 with its headquarters at Prayagraj, then called Allahabad, and it works the Prayagraj, Agra and Jhansi divisions, which together carry the busy Delhi to Howrah and Delhi to Mumbai trunk routes across the state. The operation control centre of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor is also at Prayagraj.
Option A and option B are wrong because Agra and Jhansi are divisional headquarters under this zone, not the zonal headquarters, and are offered for exactly that reason. Option C is wrong because Kanpur, although one of the busiest junctions of the country, is not a divisional or zonal headquarters; it lies in the Prayagraj division. A further point worth holding is that this zone is one of the newest of the Indian Railways, created in the round of reorganisation of 2002 and 2003 that also made the East Central and West Central Railways.
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