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CR Mumbai Division organises Webinar with FICCI members to promote parcel traffic

In collaboration with FICCI Mumbai, Mumbai Division Central Railway organised a webinar to promote parcel traffic. This webinar was organised with assistance of Sh. Deepak Mukhi, Director FICCI Mumbai. More than 15 E-Commerce players, 20 officers and staff of Mumbai Division participated in this webinar. This is in a series of webinars being organised by Mumbai Division’s recently formed Business Development Unit to promote freight and parcel traffic over Mumbai Division.

Dr. Sumant Deulkar, Additional DRM, Central Railway started the webinar with remarks that Central Railway has opened new challenges for the logistics sector during COVID-19 pandemic. Central Railway has risen to the occasion and come out with several policy initiatives to deal with transportation needs of the country. The interaction with FICCI members from E-commerce industry is to give latest insights o­n the Parcel segment to E-commerce companies and how they can forge enhanced partnership with railways for mutual benefit and prosperity.

Mr. Pawan Kaul, Co - Chair FICCI E-Commerce Committee said ‘’FICCI E- Commerce committee members would be happy to further broaden up the engagements with Central Railway regarding parcel movements with active support of Third-party logistics (3PL) service providers. The need of the hour is State-of-the-art, fast, predictable and track and trace (GPS driven) connections between source and destination with clear and defined SOPs for freight handover and 24/7 customer service desks to help resolve issues with priority for further empowering and supporting smoother parcel services via railways’

“Several initiatives have been taken by Mumbai division to encourage parcel traffic like opening Bhiwandi as new terminal for parcel traffic. Railways have reduced minimum composition for indenting a complete parcel train to 15 from earlier 20 coaches for non-perishable traffic and to 10 for perishable traffic from earlier 15. We look forward to implement any new proposal and ideas brought to us to promote parcel traffic said Mr. Gaurav Jha, SR. DCM, Mumbai Div., Central Railway.

Earlier, Mr Robin Kalia, Sr. DCM (Works), Mumbai Division, Central Railway, gave a presentation wherein action plan of Railways to implement out of the box innovative ideas to further attract players from across the logistics value chain. This includes bringing in a Parcel Aggregators, who have their own space and certified by railways so that he can collect o­n railway’s behalf for other companies.

Railway officials were assured by FICCI regarding sharing ideas and suggestions of its committee members at the earliest and also connect with players keen to work with Central Railway for various business opportunities.

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Date: September 2, 2020

PR No.2020/09/03

This press release is issued by the Public Relations Department, Central Railway, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Mumbai.

प्रेस विज्ञप्ति/ Press Release No. 190  Dt: 12.08.2020

SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY LAUNCHES SPECIAL CLEANLINESS DRIVE

A weeklong special cleanliness drive has been launched by South Western Railway from 10th August to 16th August to mark the Independence Day.  While there is a visible improvement in cleanliness of trains and stations in last few years, special focus is being given to cleanliness of railway tracks in this drive.  Intensive cleaning is being carried out at offices in station, railway colonies, different stalls in platform passenger interface area, toilets, drains, boundary of stations and other areas in railway premises.  During cleanliness of tracks special attention is being given to plastic waste collection.

As part of the drive, a shramdan was organized o­n 11.08.2020 at Diesel Loco Shed at Hubballi in which Shri Arvind Malkhede, Divisional Railway Manager;   Shri S.K. Jha, Additional Divisional Railway Manager/General;   Shri Vishwas Kumar, Additional Divisional Railway Manager/Operations;   Shri Bhesh Dutt, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer, Diesel Loco Shed and others participated.  Social Distancing, wearing of mask and other precautions in view of COVID-19 pandemic were observed during the shramdan.

Shri A.K. Singh, General Manager, SWR told that cleanliness Drive is   in progress in all three Divisions of SWR. Cleanliness has always been always o­ne of priority areas of Railway and the emphasis is more now in view of COVID for effective sanitization of station premises.

Shri Arvind Malkhede, Divisional Railway Manager emphasized that cleanliness is most important for physical well-being and a healthy environment and it is essential for everyone to learn about cleanliness hygiene, sanitation as various diseases are caused due to poor hygienic conditions.

The drives are being conducted at all the stations, colonies, offices etc.  over three  Divisions with active involvement of Environment & House Keeping Management, Medical Department,  Officers and Staff.  With lesser number of passenger trains running o­n tracks, the opportunity is being utilized to clean tracks with visible results.

                                                                                           Chief Public Relations Officer

                                                                              South Western Railway, Hubballi