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North Central Railway

Headquarter

Public Relations

Prayagraj

No. PR/08/2019/Press ReleaseDate: 19.08.2019

General Manager, North Central Railway inaugurated New Railway Officer Rest House at New Delhi

on August 19, 2019, Shri Rajiv Chaudhry, General Manager, North Central Railway inaugurated the newly constructed Officers Rest House at Shivaji Bridge Rail Complex o­n the occasion of his visit to New Delhi.It is pertinent to mention here that the Railway Administration provides rest house facilities for the convenience of its officers and employees at various places so that the railwaymen going o­n official trips are not inconvenienced in staying and can give full attention to their duties.

On this occasion, the Shri Rajiv Chaudhry General Manager congratulated the officers of North Central Railway and hoped that this new rest house will provide a lot of convenience to all the officers visiting Delhi.Whileinspecting the rest house, Shri Chaudhry instructed the officials accompanying him for necessary improvements.

At this place, the new Railway Officer Rest House has been constructed by Agra Division as per the directions of the General Manager. The rest house constructed at a cost of Rs 35 lakh, has total of 7 air-conditioned rooms equipped with necessary facilities.This rest house has been constructed in place of the old office of North Central Railway Project Unit in Delhi.

Along with General Manager, Shri Sushil Kumar Srivastava Divisional Railway Manager, Agra, Shri Prakash Upadhyay Senior Divisional Engineer-I, Agra and other senior officers and employees were present o­n this occasion.

North Central Railway

Headquarter

Public Relations

Prayagraj

No. PR/08/2019/Press ReleaseDate: 17.08.2019

GM/NCR CONDUCTS WINDOW TRAILING INSPECTION OF ALLAHABAD-MIRZAPUR SECTION

Shri Rajiv Chaudhry General Manager/North Central Railway, conducted a window trailing inspection from Allahabad to Mirzapur, o­n Saturday, 17^th of August, 2019 by train number 14056 (Brahmaputra Mail). Window-trailing inspection is a specialized inspection in the Indian Railways in which the track and its surrounding installations like signals, OHE, platforms etc are inspected from the rear window of an inspection car attached to a moving train. During the inspection, important parameters like cleanliness and overall condition of stations falling en-route, riding quality of the train-especially o­n points and crossings, improvement in Track Geometry Index (TGI), Condition of level crossing gates en-route etc were observed by the General Manager/North Central Railway.

During inspection Shri Chaudhry said “Bolted type drain covers provided in Allahabad Yards are good in design, it facilitates visibility & cleaning accessibility both, however developmental efforts may be made for use of pressed scrap plastic material for designing similar sort of yard drain covers.”

Shri Rajiv Chaudhry directed the officers to develop widening plans of Niranjan Bridge for two additional lines and portals for this area yard and Over Head Electricals. While passing through Allahabad Chheoki station, he directed to have bifurcation for a public FOB portion o­n New FOB at station. He also desired that Allahabad Chheoki mela passenger enclosure extension plan to connect Platform Number-1 should be executed quickly.

Shri Rajiv Chaudhry considering thehigh TVU (>1 lacs) of level crossing, directed the accompanying officers to review the execution time line for construction of Road Over Bridge at level crossing LC 26E at Meja Road. In order to monitor the real time situation and execution of projects General Manager desired thatdivision should have a running contract for Drone Survey to take care of regular requirement items, like need based Level Crossing area aerial survey , Bridges survey , construction development site survey etc.

He said with the closure of level crossings by construction of Limited Height Subways /Road Under Bridges /Road Over Bridges, we will be missing the vigilant eyes of gatemen, so there will be need to install more Hanging Part Detection System o­n the lines of o­ne functional at Chunar of Allahabad division.