1 Trains from (pta)patiala to (PC)PACHORA JN

Annual Conference of Operations department of Central Railway conducted today 24/05/23

Shri Naresh Lalwani, General Manager, Central Railway addressed the Senior Divisional Operations Manager’s Annual Conference at Mumbai HQ o­n 24.5.2023.

Shri Alok Singh, Additional General Manager and Shri Mukul Jain, Principal Chief Operations Manager, Central Railway were also present. The conference was attended by Heads of Coaching section, Planning section and Goods section of Operations Department of Central Railway and Operations Department Heads of Mumbai, Bhusawal, Nagpur, Pune and Solapur Divisions.

The targets and achievements of upcoming year 2023-24 have been discussed in conference as follows-

1) Goods loading-

In year 2021-22- 76.16 million tonne (MT) goods loading achieved by CR.

In year 2022-23- 81.88 million tonne goods loading achieved by CR.

In year 2023-24- 90.05 million tonne target of goods loading has been set by CR.

2) Coal loading -

Out of above total loading, coal is highest commodity loading.

In 2021-22- 39.52 MT loading done.

In 22-23- 37.17 MT loading done.

In 23-24- target of 40.95 MT coal loading has been set.

3) Cement loading-

In 22-23- 7.48 MT loading achieved.

In 23-24- target of 8.8 MT is set.

Major plants of Cement loading are- ACC/Wadi/Solapur, ACC/Ghuggus/Nagpur, Ultratech cement/Hotgi/Solapur, Orient cement/Bhadli/Bhusawal.

4) New infrastructures lines completed-

-Bhusawal-Jalgaon new 3rd line & 4th line of 24.13 km completed in year 2022-23.

-Jalgaon-Pachora new 3rd line of 47.59 km completed in year 2022-23.

5) New infrastructure lines under progress-

-Nagpur-Wardha 3rd& 4th line

-Bhusawal-khandwa 3rd & 4th line

-3rd line in Nagpur-Etarasi, Bhusawal-Wardha, Jalgaon-Manmad.

6) Parcel loading hubs-

Bhiwandi, Jalgaon, Ajni/Nagpur have been developed as major parcel loading points.

In 2022-23- 312 parcel train loaded with 764759 tonnage and 45.86 Crores revenue earning.

7) Improvement of goods sheds under progress-

It will be completed in this 2023-24 year. Circulating area, lighting, approach road, labour room, merchant room etc will be renewed.

-Mumbai division- Kalamboli

-Bhusawal division- Kasbe Sukane, Borgaon, Khamgaon, Savda, Burhanpur, Nandgaon

-Nagpur- Tadali, Ballarshah, Kalmeshwar, maramjhiri.

-Pune- Nira, Loni,

-Solapur- Vilad, Ahmednagar, Belapur, Daund, Arag.

8) Daily goods train interchange-

In 2021-22- 317 goods trains taken over/handed over daily by CR with other railway zones.

In 22-23- 336 goods train interchange daily by CR. It's 18.4% increase capacity handling.

9) Infrastructural works completed to increase mail express and goods train mobility-

-Electrification completed at Roha yard, Gurumarket yard/Pune div, Solapur yard, Barshi yard/Solapur yard, Bale yard/solapur div.

-OHE Overhead wire new substations completed at- Karad/Pune div, Ausa/Solapur div, Gaudgaon/Solapur div, Nagothane/Mumbai div.

10) Critical bottleneck infrastructure works completed in year 2022-23-

-Daund- Gulbarga doubling

-Wardha- Chitoda 2nd cord line

-Khapri-Nagpur-Godhani- 20 km automatic signalling system.

-Kamshet/pune div- loop lines extention.

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Date: May 24, 2023

PR No.2023/05/25

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

*ShriSatish Kumar takes over the charge of General Manager North Central Railway*

Providing facilities to Passenger and work for continuous improvement in passenger travel experience and capacity augmentation for quantum jump in handling traffic should be our priority: Satish Kumar

ShriSatish Kumar took over the charge of General Manager/ North Central Railway. Today o­n his arrival at Prayagraj o­n date-08.11.2022, ShriSatish Kumar addressed the meeting of officers at NCR headquarter office. All PHODs, senior officers of NCR were present in the meeting and DRMs of all the three divisions along with branch officers joined through video conferencing.

ShriSatish Kumar is B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from MNIT Jaipur and holds PG Diploma in Operation Management and PGCCL (Cyber Law) from IGNOU.

He is from 1986 batch of Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers. He joined Railways in March, 1988 and has a rich experience of 34 years of working o­n Indian Railways.

He worked o­n Jhansi Division of erstwhile Central Railway and BLW (Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi), NER, Gorkahpur, Patiala Locomotive Works. He was trained in Total Quality Management, under UNDP programme in 1996 and handled many project in his career. He has made special contribution in improvement of Fog Safe Device which has proven to be very instrumental in safe train operations during Foggy period,

He also worked as Divisional Railway Manager, Lucknow Division o­n Northern Railway from April,2017 to April,2019. A large nos. of infrastructural works were accomplished during his tenure as DRM/Lucknow. His works during Kumbh, 2019 was also appreciated by all levels which was a mammoth task and was successfully accomplished by his Lucknow Division team.

Before joining GM/NCR, he worked as Senior Dy. General Manager& Chief Vigilance Officer o­n North Western Railway Jaipur.

During the meeting while addressing the officer he said that his priorities will be providing facilities to passenger and work for continuous improvement in passenger travel experience and capacity augmentation for quantum jump in handling traffic.