RAISI

North Central Railway

Headquarter

Public Relations

Prayagraj

No. 11PR/04/2020Press ReleaseDate: 27.04.2020

After Reusable face cover, sanitizer and Coverall, North Central Railway now mulling over to produce N95mask for medical personnel.

North Central Railway continue innovating to sustain Operation & Maintenance activities with Social Distancing norms

Besides safe, efficient and flawless operation of about 200 goods and 18 timetabled parcel trains o­n regular basis, North Central railway has also taken up many novel initiatives like inhouse production of reusable face covers,sanitizer, coverall etc.to fight Covid-19 pandemic.Through o­ngoing efforts NCR has already produced over 1.5 lakhs reusable face covers, 8000 liters sanitizer and 1500 coveralls. Now NCR is considering to take up inhouse production of N95 mask for medical personnel which is a critical and important PPE items for healthcare personnel. In the daily video conference of NCR and NR officials, General Manager Sri Rajiv Chaudhry urged upon concerned departments to study and explore possibility of inhouse production of N95 mask by Railwayunits. He said that NR and NCR have done excellent work in production of coverall and N95 mask production internally will be a significant step in this fight against Covid-19 pandemic.

Under the prevailing lockdown conditions it is imperative that operation&maintenance activities are continued with proper social distancing norms to keep assets in healthy condition as well to avoid any large arrear of activities for future. With this guiding principle North Central Railway is taking series of steps and innovating every day to maintains all fixed and moving assets , continuation of operations in efficient way and keeping other important activities up to date. Some of the important initiatives o­n NCR include o­nline training programs for mandatory courses ,discharge of official work using E-office , o­nline tenders finalization , identification and planning for critical works , maintenance of assets based o­n inputs from various automated systems& track recording machines,online drawing finalization, completing important documents required for CRS sanction for opening new section&speed raising, planning of future works , digitization ofoffice records, o­nline grievance redressal arrangement , o­nline counselling facility in hospitals etc .

North Central Railway

Headquarter

Public Relations

Prayagraj

No. 11PR/04/2020Press ReleaseDate: 25.04.2020

Indian Railway is working o­n 21 items to improve Operational Efficiency of National Transporter.

GM NCR and NR Sri Rajiv Chaudhry is nodal officer of committee to formulate action plan for post Covid-19 lock down O&M , Construction and Manufacturing Activities .

Ministry of Railway has identified 21 items to improve operational efficiency over Indian Railways and has formulated committees of Sr officerscomprising of PHODs, EDs and GMsfor each item including a nodal officer and a coordinating official from Railway Board. These committee shall formulate their views through meeting, discussions etc.using various digital platforms during lockdown period and shall submit their report to Ministry of Railway through coordinating officer . Items identified by Indian Railways which shall be reviewed by different committee to improve operational efficiency of National Transporter are:

·Zero Based time tabling of trains inNew Delhi-Howrah , New Delhi-Chennai , New Delhi- Mumbai , Howrah- Mumbai and Chennai -Howrah sections.

·Review and updation of manuals by Central Training Institute of Indian Railway .

·Identification of critical works and road map for their execution with time line to remove congestion in section as well as terminals .

·Review & Processing of different documents required for statutory CRS inspection for raising speed in section and loop lines.

·Review of material consumption to bring economy and efficiency to railway operation and maintenance.

·Implementation of E-office in all units of Indian Railways to avoid physical file movement as well as to bring efficiency to work .

·Review of periodicity of maintenance of various assets like Locomotives , Coaches , Wagons , Signaling gear etc. and comparison with best practices world over .

·Review of codal life and replacement criteria of variousrailway assets in view of technological advancement .

·Introduction of o­nline measurement book for measuring work executed in a contract to improve efficiency & transparency.

·Business studies to identify new commodities for transport and steps to improvetransport through rail .

·Bringing more railway establishments like workshop , hospitals , coaching depots , pitlines , loading points , depots , stations ,offices , traction substations , relay rooms etc. under CCTV monitoring .

·Study and suggestion in Railway act specially w.r.t. Railway Land etc.

·Review of wagon, coach and locomotive requirement keeping DFC commissioning in view .

·Steps to Reduce Traction(to haul the train ) and non-traction(misc.)energy/fuel bill .

·Use technology like Data Analytics, artificial Intelligence in various railway field .

·Measures to reduce cost and improve earning.

·Comprehensive review of o­n Board Housekeeping activity.

·Multiskilling of employees and re-skilling in new area .

·EOTT and other technologies for train operations.

·Reducing speed differential between freight and passenger trains by increasing freight stock speed .

·Action plan for post Covid-19 lockdown for carrying out Operation &Maintenance, construction and Manufacturing activities o­n Indian Railways- This item is most important and crucial for Indian Railway functioning post Covid-19 lock down and it is being handled by committee of GM/NCR , GM/ECoR , GM/CR and GM/ICF and GM NCR&NR Sri Rajiv Chaudhry is nodal officer of this committee .