MORI BERA

ER ORGANIZED SAFETY SEMINAR

Kolkata, February 21, 2020

Railways always put high priority o­n safety and maintaining such priority o­n passengers' safety, Eastern Railway organized a Safety Seminar at ER Headquarters today to sensitize officers and staff regarding strict adherence to safety measure.

            Shri Suneet Sharma, General Manager, Eastern Railway presided over the seminar and instructed everybody not to adopt any short-cut measure which may affect safety rules. Shri Sharma stressed upon zero tolerance o­n safety measures like proper maintenance of locomotives and tracks, continuity of interaction between Driver & Guard while o­n duty and also advised for more field inspection by officers and staff.

            Some case studies have been shown in the seminar to facilitate detection of defects and lapses in connection with safety measures.

            Shri S. S. Gehlot, Additional General Manager/Eastern Railway; Principal Chief Safety Officer and other Principal Officers of ER were also present o­n the occasion.

                                                                 SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY

                                      Press Release No. 407  Dt. 19.02.2020

32 R KM OF SECTION BETWEEN TORANAGALLU AND KARIGANURU o­n HUBBALLI DIVISION OF SWR ELECTRIFIED

The Ministry of Finance after the Union Budget 2020 has stated that Indian Railways will aim to achieve the full electrification of its tracks in the next three years. o­n SWR 466 Rkm of electrification has been targeted this financial out of which 110 RKMS has been completed so far. 

CRS inspection and speed trial of 110 kmph of 34 R km newly electrified section of Hubballi division o­n SWR between Toranagallu and Kariganuru o­n was done o­n 18.02.2020.  Shri K Manoharan, Commissioner of Railway Safety, Southern Region conducted speed trial of this section.  Shri BG Mallya, PCEE/SWR and Shri Arvind Malkhede, DRM/UBL, Shri VVS Rao, CEE/Traction/SWR & Shri Himanshu Sharma GM/RVNL and were present o­n this occasion.  This section is part of the Toranagallu – Hosapete electrification being done by RVNL. CRS inspection was also done for doubling of track between Harlapur and Binkadakatti.

CRS will conduct o­ne more speed trial of 34 R km between Baiyappanahalli and Anekal Road of Bengaluru Division o­n 20.02.2020.  Electrification will significantly improve mobility trains o­n SWR and strengthen Rail network in Karnataka.  In addition to reduction in pollution efficiency of Railway will improve due to shift from fossil fuel to electricity.

                                                     (E. Vijaya)

                                                          Chief Public Relations Office