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GM/ER  HONOURED  STAFF FOR SAFETY ALERTNESS

Kolkata, October 22, 2019:

Shri Suneet Sharma, General Manager, Eastern Railway in a high level meeting o­n Safety & Punctuality held at ER HQ today (22.10.2019) honoured five (5) Eastern Railway employees with Safety Awards for their diligent work towards ensuring safety in train operations and to avert situations that might have caused incidents.

Shri Sukumar Mandal, Technician of Sealdah Division while performing duty of primary maintenance at yard, detected a very crucial defect in the rake of 12343 Darjeeling Mail and accordingly rectified.

Shri Nageshwar Yadav, Track Maintainer of Asansol Division while o­n routine line inspection, detected a rail fracture and took steps to rectify it immediately. 

Sk. Sabirul Islam, Porter of Malda Division while o­n duty noticed a heavy smoke coming out from middle portion of 12183 Election special. He immediately informed the incident to the concerned authority and was able to stop the train. The train started after proper rectification.

Shri Jayanta Kumar Halder, Station Manager and Shri Koushik Mondal, Porter, Gour Malda of Malda Division while o­n duty detected and rectified a major rail fracture with their joint effort.

Thus, the sincerity and alertness of these railway employees helped in avoiding untoward incidents and Shri Sharma, GM/ER recognised the prudent and sincere works of staff of different categories involved in operational management.

In this meeting with Principal Officers & DRMs, GM/ER expressed his concern over achieving the targets and controlling of expenditure. He advised all DRMs to review expenditures and to exert all out efforts to increase financial position. Towards this goal, he suggested to increase freight loading, specifically coal loading and to increase revenue through passenger carrying and unusual sources i.e. non-fare revenue. He also stressed upon intensifying of ticket checking activities so as to eliminate travelling without ticket or with improper ticket.

Shri Sharma has also advised for more field inspections by the Divisional Officers to offer more safety to rail users and to take immediate action for any deficiencies found during inspection. He also advised to look into the matter of cleanliness in trains and at stations alongwith taking care of the various passenger amenity items.

For the 1^st time, NF Railway has started work of renewal of rails and sleepers by a 100% mechanized method, during night hours. Although mechanized renewal of track assets has been done in the past, this is the first time that the work has been done during the night time.

Dhupguri - Khalaigram block section of Alipurduar division which is single line section having line capacity more than 170% has been selected for doing the work. A very high density of traffic makes it very difficult to block the track for maintenance work during the day hours. That is why night working is being resorted to. The process is a 100% mechanized process of track relaying where about 300 m track is renewed in a single block. An additional Track is laid along the main track for the up and down movement of the machine.

The working at night is very tough and requires a lot of lighting arrangements so that labour and machineries can work smoothly. For the purpose of this 2 nos. of 63KVA, generators were used with 65 Halogen lights in a length of 500 m o­n both sides of track. One Officer, 2 Supervisors from railway side, 3 Supervisors from contractor side and 120 labours were engaged in this block so that the maximum output can be obtained.