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FEW TRAINS AFFECTED DUE TO MEGA BLOCK BETWEEN SAYAN - KIM AND SANJALI- KOSAMBA STATIONS

Due to three hours Mega Block for Launching of steel girder for Road over bridge at LC No. 153 between Sayan and Kim of Surat- Vadodara Section and Launching of girder for Road over bridge at LC No. 166 over Railway portion between Sanjali and Kosamba o­n 7^th June, 2023 from 12.50 hrs. Due to this block few Western Railway trains will be cancelled ®ulated.

According to a press release issued by Shri Sumit Thakur – Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, the details of these trains are as under:

Cancellation of Trains:

1.Train No. 09082 Bharuch – Surat MEMU of 7th June, 2023 will remain cancelled.

Regulation of Trains

1.Train No. 22717 Rajkot- Secunderabad Express of 7th June 2023 will be regulated by 2 hrs.

2.Train No. 12656 Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G.Ramachandran Central – Ahmedabad Navjeevan Express of 6th June 2023 will be regulated by 2 hrs.

3.Train No. 09075 Mumbai Central - Kathgodam Superfast Special of 7th June 2023 will be regulated by 1.15 hrs.

4.Train No. 19015 Dadar – Porbandar Saurashtra Express of 7th June 2023 will be regulated by 00.45 mins.

5.Train No. 12216 Bandra Terminus – Delhi Sarai Rohilla Garibrath of 7th June 2023 will be regulated by 20 mins.

Passengers are requested to kindly take note of the same.

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Shri Chetan Kumar Shrivastava, an officer of Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers from UPSC’s 1987 batch, joined as the new General Manager of N.F. Railway o­n 16^th May, 2023. He has done B. Tech from GEC/ Jabalpur (1986), M. Tech in Industrial Management from IIT/Kharagpur (1988), Master’s in Public Administration from National University of Singapore (2007) and Advanced Diploma in Financial Management from AIMA, New Delhi (2009). As General Manager, he will be the overall incharge of all railway operational activities within the jurisdiction of N. F. Railway i.e. all north-eastern states including Sikkim and parts of West Bengal and Bihar.

Shri Chetan Kumar Shrivastava joined Indian Railways in the year 1989 as Group ‘A’ Officer. He has earlier worked as Chief Electrical Engineer (Construction), South Eastern Railway and as Divisional Railway Manager, Waltair division. He was also posted as Principal Chief Safety Officer of Eastern Railway.

He has undergone through field training o­n Metro Railway Tunnelling and Safety of systems in Denmark and Spain while he was working as GGM/Electrical in Rail Vikas Nigam Limited in 2014. He has completed the course of Management Training Programme of Indian Railway Officers’ at Singapore and Malayasia in addition to a special Executive Leadership program in SDA School of Business, Milan, Italy.

Before joining as the General Manager of N.F. Railway, he was working as the Additional General Manager (AGM) of Eastern Railway. The new General Manager has a wide experience in handling train operations, maintenance of rolling stocks and electrical systems.