RAULI

North Central Railway

Headquarter

Public Relations

Prayagraj

No. 11PR/11/2019/Press ReleaseDate: 05.11.2019

North Central Railway Gears up for safe and detention free train operation during winters- GM/NCR Sri Rajiv Chaudhry conducts Video Conferencewith Divisions

A video conference of North Central Railway Headquarters held with Agra, Allahabad and Jhansi divisions. In the beginning of the video conference, General Manager North Central Railway Shri Rajiv Chaudhry along with principal head of departments reviewed the safety position o­n Agra, Allahabad and Jhansi divisions. Shri Chaudhry emphasized that detailed investigation in all cases of failure and detention are must for system improvement and instructed divisions to ensure it religiously. He sensitized all three Divisions that winters has already set in and stipulated patrolling of railway tracks must be ensured. He also stressed that proper visibility of signals, compliance of stipulated winter precautions for locomotives, coaches &wagons, availability of retroreflective boards etc. must be ensured for safe and detention free travel this winter. Safety record of Indian Railway has been quite good this year and no human life is lost in any train accident in first 07 months of financial year 2019-20. North Central Railway runs about 100 trains o­n 130 Kmph or more and it has been doing pioneering work in field of way side rolling stock monitoring system by installing first Hot Box Detector and Hanging part detection system at Chunar station of Allahabad division. Wheel impact detectors are also installed in Allahabad and Agra divisions and CCTV provision for rolling in examination has been done at many stations. Advanced system of o­nline Rolling Stock monitoring is also being installed in Allahabad division. Moving ahead in this direction NCR has now decided to conduct a trial to provide CCTV at Bamrauli station at both UP and Down lines with display to Porter or Assistant Station Master to ensure that mandatory monitoring of passing train at enroute station is augmented for enhanced safety in train operation.Besides this “Transfer of Key” is also being provided for all manned level crossing gates o­n NCR to give positive confirmation to Assistant Station Master o­n level crossing gate closing before signal is lowered for any train to avoid any possibility of miscommunication regarding gate closure. General Manager also directed that a drive must be done to assess proper functioning of all equipment o­n Level Crossing andavailability of basic amenities for gate man. Indian Railways has already removed all unmanned level crossing from its broad gauge(BG) network last year and it is now replacing manned gates with Road over bridges or Limited height subways to further improve safety as well as to reduce detention of trains due to cases of late gate closures etc. This year NCR has targeted replacement of 114 manned level crossing with ROBs/RUBs, of which 65 are already done upto Oct-19 and balance 49 are planned for execution in current financial year.

In the meeting it was also discussed that with substantial conversion of coaching trains o­n LHB stock it is important that more and more Assistant Loco Pilots and Shunting staff needs to be trained o­n handling of LHB coaches.

After Chairman Railway Board visit to NCR o­n 02.11.19, process for introduction of New Shatabdi between Allahabad and Lucknow has been expedited and tentative timings of run etc.are being worked out by North Central Railway in consultation with Northern Railway. o­n infrastructural front, it was decided to start preparatory work in connection with Electronic Interlockingof Govindpuri station. North Central Railway has recently completed major Electronic Interlocking work at Tundla Jn.thusremoving mechanical signaling system from its trunk route. Other important infrastructure works of Jhansi-Kanpur doubling, construction of new washable apron at Allahabad Platform-3 , Renewal of washing lines at Allahabad etc were also discussed .

Punctuality position prevailing o­n all the divisions of North Central Railway was also reviewed during the meeting. General Manager Shri Rajiv Chaudhry advised divisions to monitor regular bad runners and pull up their punctuality performance.This year punctuality performance of North Central Railway has improved substantially which is higher by 11 percent in first 07 months of financial year 2019-20 when compared to same period of last year.

North Central Railway

Headquarter

Public Relations

Prayagraj

No. PR/09/2019/Press ReleaseDate: 26.09.2019

on 26.09.19 a video conference of North Central Railway Headquarters held with Agra , Allahabad and Jhansi divisions.Before the video conference with divisions,PHODs of North Central Railway congratulated Shri Rajiv Chaudhry for completing successful o­ne year as General Manager .Shri Chaudhry had taken over this challenging assignment o­n 20.09.18 and completed o­ne year as GM recently o­n 19.09.19.During last o­ne year,under guidance of Sri Chaudhry NCR scaled newer height in field of operational excellence and infrastructural development. Some of the important achievements of NCR during last o­ne year are following :

Major Achievements of North Central Railway – Operational Indices

•Two divisions of NCR among top 10 as per KPI of August-19.

•Punctuality of NCR close to 60% - more than 10% improvement over last year.

•Record Scrap Sale worth Rs. 213.79 crores against the target Rs. 205.00 crores in 2018-19.

•Since the inception of NCR, highest ever originating freight loading of 15.40 MT in 2018-19.

•Best ever Originating freight earning of 1597.32 crore in 2018-19.

•Best ever throughput of 23890 wagons in Mar’19 – Previous best of 23330 wagons in Feb’15.

•Best ever throughput of 480 goods trains in Mar’19 - Previous best was 470 trains in Feb’15.

•Record Scrap Sale worth Rs. 213.79 crores against the target Rs. 205.00 crores in 2018-19.

Infrastructure Development

•Efforts of NCR recognized during National Railway Week for removal of UMLC.

•82 UMLCs & 48 Manned LCs replaced with ROB / RUB.

•New FOBs constructed ALD, KCN, SFG, MNQ, JHS, Kirauli, Rupwas, Vrindavan Road etc.

•New Station at Usar Gaon, station building Subedarganj etc.

•Trial operation between Bhadan – Khurja of EDFC started.

•Electrification of approximately 500 RKM during 2018-19.

•35 interlocking works commissioned in April to August 19 @ 1 per week.

•16 stations covered/augmented with CCTV facility.

•MTRC installed at 09 stations of NCR.

Passengers Amenities

•11 pairs of new trains.

•Pioneering effort which led to introduction of sleeper in Humsafar Express.

•Implementation of mechanized cleaning o­n all major stations of NCR.

•More than 150 ATVMs.

•More than 30 escalators & 12 lifts.

•ISO 14001 : 2015 certification of major stations o­n NCR.

•Wi-Fi provided o­n 197 stations against total of 212.

•16 stations covered/augmented with CCTV facility.

Kumbh 2019

•Successful conduct of Kumbh Mela-2019.

•With NCR’s coordinated efforts 1080 special and regular trains catered to 150 Lacs pilgrims.

•41 works related to Kumbh worth more than Rs. 700 crores completed.

•Many innovating concepts – METM, Kumbh Rail Sewa App, Crowd stimulation, multilingual announcement etc. implemented.

•Medical assistance to more than 01 lac pilgrims during Kumbh.

•Vinyl wrapping o­n 1400 coaches.

•More than 450 CCTV camera o­n 10 stations with centralized command centre.

•Vande Bharat introduced during Kumbh – Highest avg. speed of 104 kmph. Over NCR.

•Kumbh Rail Sewa Jacket and deployment of more than 5000 Kumbh Rail Sewak.

•Efforts of NCR recognized at National Railway Week Award function.

New Initiatives, Innovation etc.

•Two divisions of NCR among top 10 as per KPI of August-19.

•Pioneering work in field of rolling stock safety – First hanging part detection system of IR.

•First o­n IR innovations like Grievance Redressal Index, Gross happiness index, DUET etc.

•11.4 crores units of electricity worth Rs. 64 crores saved through regeneration – best o­n IR.

•Reduction of 1.3 lacs ton CO2 Emission in 2018-19 - Best o­n IR.

•ISO 22000 :2018 certification of major running rooms.

•Exams conducted for 2559 posts of ALP and 854 technicians.

•MTRC installed at 09 stations of NCR.

GM speaking o­n this occasion said that he is lucky to have excellent team of officers , staff and supervisors who were key to this success and called upon all departments to work harder to meet the aspiration of our end users in passenger and freight segment.During video conference with divisions review of safety works done.GM emphasised that work of fire safety in coaches and power cars is extremely important and work of fire and smoke detection system and suppression system for power cars must be fitted immediately. GM also advised that VHF of Good quality must be made available to divisions before winters sets in. For improved checking of coaching and freight trains it was decided during the conference that checklist in line with loco pilot shall also be implemented for Guards. o­n improvements of track maintenance GM NCR directed that quality of work done by welders be closely monitored and requisite trainingbe imparted to welders regularly. GM expressedsatisfaction o­n progress of infrastructural works over NCR. o­n punctuality of trains Sri Chaudhry complemented divisions for improvement in punctuality performance of NCR by 10 % over last year. He said that close monitoring and proper controlling of trains have been the main factors for improved punctuality and urged everyone to work together to ensure that train running o­n NCR improves further.