new delhi aug 28 around 6000 railway stations will be wifienabled in the next sixeight months minister of railways piyush goyal said today speaking at the smart railways conclave organised by federation of indian chambers of commerce and industry ficci here goyal said that the railways was focusing on smarter project implementation we believe that if we have to leverage digital technology the basic ingredient is to ensure access to technology in the remotest part of the country the railways is working on a programme to ensure the last mile connectivity wherever we do not have fibre optics in our network we are hopeful that in the next sixtoeight months all railway stations other than the halt stations about 6000 stations will be wifienabled he said he said that the national transporter will have to start thinking planning and working smartly i think thats the change that you would have seen the last four years he added on punctuality of trains the minister said that between april 1 and today punctuality has improved to 7374 per cent as the railways has made a change by replacing the manual recording of time by station masters with data loggers placed at interchange points across the network that ensure computer generated time we are working on putting a gps device on every locomotive so that we will have every train marked on mobile phone knowing exactly where they are he also said that the railways was embarking on making itself efficient in a big way which will save usd 2 billion every year which otherwise would have to be passed on to the passengers with efficient railways we wont have to burden the poor he said on the occasion the minister and other dignitaries released two knowledge papers namely ficciey report on make in india in railways sector and ficciat kearney report on technology transforming railways transportation asg smn