MANCHIRYAL

Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, South Central Railway conducted a detailed inspection of Gadchandur – Pandhar Pavani – Wihirgaon – Wirur – Sirpur Kaghaznagar – Asifabad – Bellampalli – Manchiryal sections of Secunderabad Division today i.e., 07th September, 2021 to overview the freight loading facilities, passenger amenities along with further improvement plans. He was accompanied by Shri A.K Gupta, Divisional Railway Manager, Secunderabad Division, Principal Head of the Departments and other senior officials.

The General Manager commenced the inspection at Gadchandur Railway station. He examined the passenger amenities at the station and reviewed the facilities available at the goods shed. He also interacted with representatives of cement industry at Gadchandur and discussed o­n further plans for improvement of freight loading. The General Manager proceeded o­n to inspect Pandharpavani, Wihirgaon and Wirur Railway stations. At these stations, he examined the available passenger amenities and discussed about the further developmental plans with the officials. He also inspected the progress of o­n-going triple line works in Wihirgaon – Wirur section and instructed the officials to expedite the works.

The General Manager also inspected the Sirpur Kaghaznagar Railway station. He examined the passenger amenities available at the station. He inaugurated the reserved lounge at Sirpur Kaghaznagar station and interacted with the customers. He also inspected the Asifabad Railway station and along with the freight loading siding. Later, the General Manager visited Bellampalli Railway station, where he also took stock about the freight maintenance activity being done at the station. He proceeded o­n to inspect the entire station premises including station lobby, running room and health unit. He also inspected the facilities at the Railway quarters and met the freight customers. Further, He also inspected the Manchiryal Railway station, goods shed and discussed o­n further developmental plans with the officials.

During the course of inspection at Manchiryal station, Shri N. Diwakar Rao, Hon’ble MLA, met General Manager, SCR and discussed o­n Rail developmental plans pertaining to Manchiryal. The General Manager also received representations from several public representatives regarding station developmental plans. Shri Gajanan Mallya interacted with the media and briefed them o­n plans for improvement of facilities.

· A total of 17 Stations are covered under this first phase of Integrated Video Surveillance System

· Security surveillance monitoring can now be monitored at three levels

Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, South Central Railway inaugurated the Integrated Video Surveillance System (VSS) Control Room at the Zonal level for the first 17 stations of SCR today i.e., 31st May 2021. With this facility made operational, the security surveillance footage over these 17 stations can now be monitored at 3 levels – Station, Divisional Security Control and Zonal Security Control.

The 17 stations covered under this include Railway stations spread across three States: Adilabad, Begumpet, Lingampalli, Manchiryal and Warangal in Telangana; Guntur, Kadapa, Kurnool Town, Nellore, o­ngole, Rajahmundry and Tuni, in Andhra Pradesh; Aurangabad, Dharmabad, Jalna, Nagarsol, and Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra.

RailTel, a Miniratna PSU under Ministry of Railways, has provided Internet Protocol (IP) based VSS at 13 Railway stations and integrated existing CCTV at 4 stations (i.e., Aurangabad, Guntur, Rajahmundry and Warangal) to set up the centralized control room. This is also the first time that the earlier Internet Protocol (ONVIF) cameras installed by the Railways have been integrated with the new VSS system over Indian Railways.

The Railway Board has entrusted RailTel with the work of providing IP based VSS with video analytics and facial recognition system at all railway stations, premium and EMU coaches. As part of this, RailTel will be providing Video Surveillance System at A1, A, B, C, D and E category stations, coaches of premium trains and suburban EMU coaches.

Talking about the project of providing Video Surveillance System, Shri Puneet Chawla, Chairman and Managing Director, RailTel said ‘The Video Surveillance System will be extended to other stations and coaches soon. Two more stations (Bapatla and Purna) of SCR will have VSS in June-2021 and by the end of 2021-22 total 76 stations of SCR will be covered with this high-tech security system”

To have a better coverage and clearer image four different types of Full HD Cameras – Dome type, bullet types, Pan Tilt Zoom type and Ultra HD-4k cameras are being provided. The recording of the video feeds from CCTV cameras will be stored for 30 days for playback, post event analysis and for investigation purposes. Important videos can be stored for longer duration based o­n request from security agencies.

Talking about the system, Sh. Gajanan Mallya, GM/South Central Railway said, “RailTel has connected 520 CCTV cameras of these 20 stations o­n optical fiber cable to send the video feeds to the centralized CCTV control room where it is being monitored 24X7. 4K resolution Ultra HD cameras have also been deployed to facilitate facial recognition as well. This new VSS is going to enhance the security and safety of the passengers tremendously.”