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Vol. 63 No. 6INDIAN RAILWAYS

Shri Piyush Goyal Launches CORAS of Indian Railways 13

Police Medal to RPF / RPSF Personnel 14

64th National Award for Outstanding Services – 2019 14

Boost to Railway Connectivity Between Allahabad and Mughalsarai 15

Boost to Rail Connectivity in Uttar Pradesh 15

Former Member Materials Management/Railway Board, Visits North Central Railway 15

Indian Railways’ 1st Printing Press Heritage Gallery by Western Railway Inaugurated at Mahalaxmi 16

Meeting with Passenger Amenities Committee 17

Indian Railways to Enforce Ban on Single Use Plastic Material 17

Infographics 18

List of Awardees in 64th National Awards for Outstanding Services -2019 21

Railways in Parliament 27

Report : Railway Connectivity in Northeast Getting Full Thrust 32

Report : Chennal Egmore-Kollam Express Gets Refurbished Rake Under Project Utkrisht 33

Report : Free High-Speed Wi-Fi Provided by SCR Being Used by more than 10 Lakh Rail Passengers in a Month 34

Report : Modern Coach Factory, Raebareli 35

Zonal Railways/Production Units News 38

Boondh - The Droplet V. Prakash 51

Experiencing Changes Through Shatabdi Parag Purohit 52

Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management (IRITM), Lucknow

Ajaya Pratap Singh56

How to Value “Valued Customers” of Indian Railways

Ajaya Pratap Singh60

Safe Train Operation Shelleyandra Kapil 63

New Paradigms of technology for Indian Railways Shivendra Shukla 65

Challenges in Train Operations N.B. Vikramaditya 67

Indian Railways : Need to Balance between Social Obligations and Financial Viability

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The 64th Railway Week National Award function was held at Mumbai on 30th July 2019, in which 133 individual awardees were felicitated for their

exemplary performance and contribution to the Indian Railways. South Eastern Railway was conferred the prestigious Govind Vallabh Pant Shield for overall efficiency and 20 shields were awarded to different Zones and Production Units for their outstanding performance. Railway Minister, Shri Piyush Goyal, has launched Commando for Railway Security (CORAS) of Indian Railways and also unveiled new Establishment Manual for Railway Protection Force in New Delhi.

In order to boost Railway connectivity, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given approval for constructing 3rd Railway line between Allahabad and Mughalsarai and a new Railway line between Sahjanwa and Dohrighat in Uttar Pradesh. Inspired by Prime Minister’s Clarion call in his Independence Day speech, Indian Railways have decided to enforce ban on single use plastic material from 2nd October, 2019. Indian Railways first Printing Press Heritage Gallery was recently inaugurated at Mahalakshmi in Mumbai.

Indian Railways paid tribute and obeisance to the armed force personnels who took part and lost their lives for the Nation in the Kargil War in 1999. To commemorate 20th year of Kargil War Diwas, 218 train coaches were wrapped in the “colour of volour” depicting the saga of bravery and sacrifice of the soldiers. Water special trains were run by Indian Railways to Chennai to tie over acute water shortage.

Mumbai Division of Central Railway has recently introduced digital payment of catering services across all stations through net banking, debit/credit cards and various online payment valets. Special drive “NO BILL, NO PAYMENT” was conducted to promote the use of digital payment for catering services. With a view to ensure safety of passengers in Indian Railways, a massive drive “Operation Thirst” has been initiated to stop selling unauthorized spurious water bottles in station premises.

Shri Vijay Kumar, IRAS, has taken over as Financial Commissioner, Railway Board on 14.08.2019. This issue also brings special focus on Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management. ¥

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Indian Railways

Shri Piyush Goyal Launches CORAS of Indian Railways

Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri

Piyush Goyal launched CORAS (Commando for Railway Security) of Indian Railways and new esta-blishment manual for Railway Pro-tection Force. Chairman, Railway Board, Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav, other Railway Board Members, DG, RPF, Shri Arun Kumar, General Manager, Northern Railway, Shri T.P. Singh, along with senior Railway officials were present on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal said, “Today we are committed to deve-lop India as a Clean India, Healthy India, Prosperous and Secure India. Keeping in mind the threat from disruptive forces, induction of CORAS was planned in Railway Protection Force. CORAS team will be provided best, most modern equipment and world class training.

Lauding the efforts of RPF soldier Shivcharan Gurjar, who rescued eight lives in flood stricken areas of Gujarat, Shri Goyal appreciated the commendable work of RPF soldiers. Shri Goyal urged the people to crack down on touts and imme-diately inform the authorities so the menace of ticket touting may be eliminated permanently.”

Shri Goyal announced that a new state of the art commando training centre to beestablished in Jagadhri, Haryana. Shri Goyal added that a new network of CCTV cameras at every station will be set up to en-hance the security of Railway pas s-

engers. The link of these cameras will be given to the local stations, GRP, RPF, Divisional office and to the Minister’s office. Shri Goyal also congratulated RPF officers and each soldier for extending security to passengers and Railway property in far-flung areas round the clock.

Shri Goyal thanked Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for taking the concern about the safety of train passengers. Launch of CORAS is an important step in this direction. Shri Goyal also conveyed his greetings to the Nation on Independence Day and Rakshabandhan.

Speaking on the occasion, Chairman, Railway Board, Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav said, “CORAS, a special Railway Unit is a result of detailed policy formulation. Railway Protection Force is always involved in protecting Railway passengers and Railway property in far and inaccessible threat prone areas. To meet the challenges to Railway security, CORAS, a separate Commando Unit of RPF has been established. This special unit is given world class training and best facilities. This special unit will be able to meet any challenging situation.”

Shri Piyush Goyal releasing the RPF Establishment Manual. Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav, Shri Arun Kumar and other dignitaries are also seen

Shri Piyush Goyal launching the “CORAS” at a function in New Delhi. Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav, Shri Arun Kumar and other dignitaries are also seen

Passenger Security

Speaking on the occasion, Director General, Railway Protection Force, Shri Arun Kumar said, “Railway plays an important role in connecting nook and corner of the country. To tackle the threats to Railway passengers or establishments, a special task force having trained manpower was required. Railway is currently carrying out projects, which are strategically and economically important. Commissioning of CORAS will address challenges to these ongoing projects as well as


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64th National Award for Outstanding Services – 2019

The 64th National Award function was held at the Jamshedji

Bhabha Theatre (NCPA), Mumbai on 30 July, 2019.

Shri V.K. Yadav, Chairman, Railway Board was the Chief Guest. Shri S.N. Agarwal, the then Member Staff, Shri Rajesh Agarwal, Member Rolling Stock, Shri Vishwesh Chaube, Member Engineering, Shri N. Kashinath, the then Member Signal & Telecom, Shri V.P. Pathak, the then Member Materials Management, Shri Rajesh Tiwari, Member Traction, Shri P.S. Mishra, Member Traffic, Shri Vijay Kumar, Finance Commissioner, Shri S.K. Mishra, Secretary/Railway Board, General Managers of all Zones and Produ ction Units, other officials and employees of Indian Railways along with awardees and their families were also present at the event.

Shri V.K. Yadav gave away Medals, Cheques and Certificates to 133 individual awardees and winners of four Zonal competitions

and also presented 20 Shields to employees/officers representing their Zones and Production Units of Indian Railways for their outstanding per formance. South Eastern Railway won the prestigious Govind Vallabh Pant Shield for overall efficiency. Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways, Commerce and Industry alongwith Shri Suresh Angadi, Minister of State of Railways addressed the gathering through video link from Delhi. Shri Piyush Goyal congratulated the awardees and said success is not a chance but

success is a choice. Mumbai shows the grit of the nation in general and railways in particular in times of challenge. He appreciated the rail-waymen and the various agencies in restoring railways in times of adverse conditions.

Speaking on the occasion Shri V.K. Yadav said that the work done by railways during last year was appreciated by MPs during the budget discussion. He also said that due to the increased record output of coaches, the expe ctations of people have risen mani fold and we

View of the function

any challenging situation for Railway travellers. The commandos in CORAS are well trained in reputed institutions and are capable of meeting any precarious situation. This new unit will strengthen the Railway security.”Background of CORASVision Statement : To develop world level capa bilities of specialized responder for any

Police Medal to RPF / RPSF Personnel

On the occasion of Independence Day 2019, the Hon’ble President

of India has awarded President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service and Police Medal for Meritorious Service to the following Railway Protection Force (RPF)/Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) officers and staff.

President’s Police Medal (PPM) for Distinguished Service

Shri T. S. Gopakumar, Assistant Security Commissioner, Southern Railway

Police Medal (PM) for Meritorious Service

Shri Jyoti Kumar Satija, DIG/ JJR RPF Academy, Lucknow, Shri Sanjay Kumar Gupta, Assistant Security Commissioner, North Western Railway, Shri Anil Kumar Singh, Assistant Commandant, 2 BN/ RPSF, Shri N. Ashwini Kumar, Vigilance Officer (Inspector), IRCTC, Shri Indu Prakash Singh, Assistant Security Commissioner, RDSO, Shri Devi Singh Meena, Assistant Sub-Inspector, North Western Railway, Shri Basappa

Lamani, Inspector, 11 BN/ RPSF, Shri Vikas Bajaj, Sub-Inspector, 6 BN/ RPSF, Shri Chandra Prakash Dubey, Assistant Sub-Inspector, Northern Railway, Shri Rambabu Sharma, Sub-Inspector, KRCL, Shri Parbat K. Madam, Sub-Inspector, KRCL, Shri Narayan Prasad Pandey, Sub-Inspector, South-East Central Railway, Shri Ajoy Bandyopadhyay, Sub-Inspector, South-East Central Railway, Shri Biswadip Bose, Sub-Inspector, South-East Central Railway, Shri Ramkumar Yadav, Sub-Inspector, Central Railway. ¥

situation pertaining to damage, disturbance, disruption of train operations, attack/hostage/hijack, disaster situations in railway areas.zz Following the doctrine of graded

response, minimum effective force shall be used for providing fool proof security to Indian Railways and its users.Salient Features : Carved out from

motivated and willing young staff of RPF/RPSF.zz With an average age be t ween

30-35 years, CORAS will always be young and motivated staff.zz Very high physical standards to

join CORAS.zz Commando Coys shall be de-

ployed in Left Wing Extremism (LWE)/Insurgency/Terrorism affe-cted Railway areas. ¥

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Indian Railways

Boost to Railway Connectivity Between Allahabad and Mughalsarai zz Cabinet approves the

construction of 150 km long 3rd railway line between Allahabad - Mughalsarai (now Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Jn.) zz Project will help cope up with

the future traffic and for removing capacity constraints zz Project will enhance capacity

and ease traffic congestion at Chheoki, Nainizz Project will generate direct

employment during construction for about 36 lakh man days zz The total estimated cost of this

project is ` 2649.44 crore & will be

completed by 2023-24The Cabinet Committee on

Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval to construct a 3rd railway line between Allahabad - Mughalsarai (now Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Jn.) (Length 150 km) with an estimated cost of ` 2649.44 crore. The project will be completed by 2023-24 and will be executed by Construction Organization of North Central. The project will help cope up with the future traffic and remove capacity constraints. At present number of passenger and

goods trains in this section are far more than its capacity, resulting in heavy dete ntion to trains. This project will enhance capacity, reduce detention and cater for future growth of traffic. Construction of approved third Line between Allahabad and Mughalsarai will also ease traffic congestion at Chheoki, Naini and improve the punctuality of goods and passenger trains on vital route connecting National capital. This project will also generate direct employment during construction for about 36 lakh mandays. ¥

have to face the challenge of meeting that. He also said Hon’ble Prime Minister's vision of seeing the Indian Railways as the no.1 railways in the world in next 10 years.

Chairman also congratulated Central Railway for the excellent arrangements and co n ducting the function. Earlier, Shri A.K. Gupta, General Manager, Central Railway gave welcome ad dress. The programme started with Saraswati Vandana and lighting the lamp

followed by cultural event by Central Railway Cultural Academy.

Earlier during the day Chairman, Railway Board visited the exhibition organized at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Heritage Hall about new initiatives and cutting edge technology / achievements. Central Railway, Western Railway, South Central Railway, Southern Railway, South Western Railway, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corpo-ration India Ltd, Indian Railway

Station Develo pment Corporation, Integral Coach Factory, Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation, Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd, Railway Protection Force and Railfans, Central Orga nisation for Railway Electrification & National Academy of Indian Railways are participating in this exhibition. There was on exhibition on 30 & 31 July, 2019 from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm and entry will be free. (Detailed list of awardees at page no. 21) ¥

Boost to Rail Connectivity in Uttar Pradeshzz Cabinet approves construction

of 81.17 km New Railway Line between Sahjanwa and Dohrighat zz New line for Dohrighat-Sahjanwa

will complete the missing link and will provide an alternate route avoiding Gorakhpur zz The project will also generate

direct employment during con stru-ction for about 19.48 lakh mandayszz The total estimated cost of this

project is ` 1319.75 crore will be completed by 2023-24

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval to construct a new railway line

between Sahjanwa and Dohrighat (81.17 Km) with an estimated cost of ` 1319.75 crore.The project will be completed by 2023-24 and will be executed by Construction Organization of North Eastern Railway.

The project area is densely populated, economically backward and is deficient in road transport facilities. The proposed project will provide rail facility to the people of the area falling under the project line and will help in growth of small-scale industries in the area. This project will also generate direct employment during con struction for about 19.48 lakh mandays.

Alignment from Sahjanwa to Dohrighat lies mostly in Gorakhpur district and very small area in Mau district in Uttar Pradesh. Indara-Dohrighat gauge conversion has already been sanctioned and this approval for new line for Dohrighat- Sahjanwa will complete the missing link and provide an alternate route avoiding Gorakhpur. After completion of this connectivity, alternate route con necting Chhapra to Lucknow avoiding congestion at Gorakhpur will be available. Hence, this project is needed for better socio-economic development of the hinterland of this backward area with the help of rail transport. ¥

Former Member Materials Management/Railway Board Visits North Central Railway

Former Member Materials Management, Railway Board

and Ex Officio Secre tary to GOI Shri V.P. Pathak visited North Central

Railway HQ. Shri Rajiv Chaudhry welcomed Shri Pathak and the meeting was attended by AGM, NCR & PHoDs. In the meeting PCMM

NCR Shri P N Pandey info rmed that Shri Pathak has taken many initiatives towards digiti sation of material management for Indian


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Railway. Digitisation on Rail ways have help ed biggest tran sporter in improving material ava ila bility and saving on expe nditures through inventory control. NCR has also taken many initiatives on digitisation of procu rement and auction and most of the processes are paper less bringing speed and transparency.

During the meeting a web based App “North Central Railway Sales Delivery management System “was also launched which will facilitate hassle free delivery of sold scrap material after auction in transparent manner. GM Shri Rajiv Chaudhry in his address said that Shri Pathak guidance will help NCR in better material management and thanked him for coming to NCR despite his hectic schedule. NCR has made

procurement goods of more than ` 25 crores in 18-19 from GeM. Shri Pathak complemented NCR on initiatives taken on material management. He said that his association to Prayag raj goes back to 1975 when he joined MNREC and shared his memories of his initial career in Allahabad Division (then part of NR) and his tenure during form ation of NCR. He

emphasised that safety is paramount for us and all our effort to improve safety in train ope ration must reach to grass root level. He also lauded efforts of NCR in improving pun ctuality and urged the team NCR to further act upon. He said that real benefit of IT can be achieved when need of rechecking our processes are minimal. He said that if we are convinced that something is good then we should not hold back just because it is difficult. Earlier Shri Pathak had done a detailed review meeting of Stores dep a-rtment of North Central Railway. Meeting ended with vote of thanks from PCMM Shri P.N. Pandey. In afternoon Shri Pathak Member and other Officers participated in plantation. ¥

Shri V. P. Pathak addressing the officers during his visit to North Central

Railway Head Quarter

Indian Railways’ 1st Printing Press Heritage Gallery by Western Railway Inaugurated at Mahalaxmi

Well known for pioneering in so many first achievements

on Indian Railways, Western Railway has once again been the pioneer to implement an innovative concept by setting up Indian Railway's 1st of its kind Printing Press heritage gallery at Mahalaxmi in Mumbai. This unique heritage gallery was inaugurated by Shri V.P. Pathak, the then Member (Materials Management) of Railway Board during his recent Mumbai visit.

Western Railway Mahalaxmi General Stores Depot (GSD) is the first in Indian Railways to portray a Heritage Gallery of the Printing and allied machines used in the Western Railway Printing press since 1948, which are still in working condition. The GSD Mahalaxmi is spread across 12,171 sq. meter area. The Depot itself a British Era single storied building made with Black stone having interiors made with wood, has its own beauty and uniqueness.

This concept of a Heritage gallery of Western Railway Printing Press is the brain child of Shri J. P. Pandey, Principal Chief Materials Manager

of Western Railway. It was underhis guidance and farsightedness that this concept was entrusted in the hands of Deputy Materials Manager of GSD Mahalaxmi who has the control of Western Railway Printing Press.The Printing Press came into existence in the year 1912 under the Greater Indian Peninsular Railway (GIP) Bombay, as the railway needed stationery and tickets to run the Railways. In the year 1953 the Press was shifted to GSD Mahalaxmi at Western Railway. In 1969, 90,000 sq. feet multi-storied building was specially constructed to house this press at Shakti Mills Lane in Mahalaxmi. High speed Letterpress rotary machines were imported. These machines were tailor made to the requirement of security and safety

Shri V.P. Pathak inaugu rating Western Railway's Printing Press Heritage Gallery at Mahalaxmi and a view of the Gallery

features of Western Railway. The cost incurred for the

machines, along with the building was ` 47.18 lakh.

This building was inaugurated by the then Mayor of Mumbai along with General Manager of Western Railway on 24 September, 1969.

Parcel way bills and Railway Receipts for all zonal railways of India, along with Stationery and Money Value items required for Western Railway were printed at this press. The capacity of the press was approximately 3-3.25 lakhs DFCI per day.

Western Railway printing press was declared closed on 31 July, 2018, after serving for 48 years and 10 months in the new building and a total of 106 years right from the British Era. ¥

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Indian Railways

Meeting with Passenger Amenities Committee

Shri P.K. Krishna Das, Chairman, Pass enger Amenities Committee,

Shri G. Premendar Reddy, Shri C. Ravindran and Mrs. Kaku Vijayalaxmi mem bers of the Passenger Amenities Co mmittee met Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, SCR on 16 August, 2019 at General Manager’s Conference Hall, Rail Nilayam, Secunderabad.

Shri Krishna Das complimented the SCR authorities for maintaining high standards of cleanliness at Kacheguda, Hyderabad and Secun-derabad Railway Stations. He also stated that status of the cleanliness at railway stations is matching the ideals of Swachh Bharat programme initiated by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The committee members suggested on provision of scanners at Secunderabad Parcel office to ensure safety and baby

feeding rooms at Hyderabad Railway station, provision of more lady constables to strengthen the security at the stations.

Shri Gajanan Mallya detailed the committee on various development activities related to Passenger ame-nities over the zone such as pro-vision of escalators, lifts, heigh-tening of platforms, im pro ving light en ing in the stations, provision of free Wi-fi in all the stations and maintenance of highest cleanliness standards on SCR. SCR focused on Swachh Rail-Swachh Bharat mi-

ssion to ensure passenger friendly trains. He also stated that SCR is 100% LED lit zone and saving around 7 crore per year. The zone has provided free Wi-fi facility at 200 plus and planning to provide Wi-fi facility to 700 stations in the current year. The zone is focusing on New line projects, doubling and tripling to provide more passenger services. Shri John Thomas, Additional General Manger, Shri John Prasad, Principal Chief Commercial Manager, Shri G.M. Eswara Rao, Principal Chief Security Commissioner, Shri Anand Bhatia, Divisional Railway Manager, Secunderabad Division and Shri N.S.R. Prasad, Divisional Railway Manager, Hyderabad Division, Smt. Padmaja, Chief Passenger Transportation Manager parti-cipated in the meeting. ¥

Indian Railways to Enforce Ban on Single Use Plastic Material

Taking a cue from the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s

clarion call in his Independence Day speech to eliminate single use plastic in the country from 2nd October, 2019, Indian Railways has once again risen to the occasion to shield the environment from the menace of plastic. Ministry of Railways has directed all Railway units to enforce ban on single use plastic material, with less than 50 micron thickness from 2 October, 2019. Emphasis is on making necessary arrangements to mini-

mize generation of plastic waste and its eco-friendly disposal.

In this regard, Ministry of Railways has issued a circular stating the following instructions are to be enforced: w.e.f. 2 October, 2019: (a) Ban on single use plastic material, (b) All railway vendors to avoid use of plastic carry bags, (c) Staff should reduce, reuse and refuse plastic products and to use inexpensive reusable bags to reduce plastic footprint, (d) IRCTC to implement return of plastic drinking water bottles as part of

Extended Producer Responsibility, (e) Plastic Bottle crushing machines to be provided expeditiously. Strict enforcement of these instructions is to be from 2 October, 2019, to give enough time to all concerned to prepare for “Plastic Free Rail-way”. Ministry of Railways has also instructed its Railway units that a pledge can be administered on 2 October, 2019 to cut use of plastics. Also, Information, Edu cation & Communication (IEC) measures are to be adapted to create awareness among railway users. ¥

New Financial Commissioner (Railways), Railway Board

Shri Vijay Kumar, IRAS (1982) has been appointed as Financial

Commissioner (Railways) and Ex-Officio Secretary to the Government of India w.e.f. 14 August, 2019. Prior to this also, he was looking after the post of FC (Railways) since 1st March, 2019 as an additional charge to additional Member (Budget). Presently, he is also Managing Director of Indian Railway Finance Corporation since 26th July, 2018. Shri Kumar holds Masters of Science degree from

Patna University. He has also completed PGDFM from NMIMS, Mumbai. He has participated in various training programmes in India and abroad like at ISB Hyderabad, University of Toronto, Canada, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA and University of Maryland, Washington DC. Shri Kumar carried with him rich and varied experience in Finance & Accounting for a period

spanning more than thirty five (35) years in Indian Railways. He has worked in various zones of Railways in various capacities like Principal Financial Adviser in South Eastern Railway, Kolkata, East Coast

Railway, Bhubaneswar and FA&CAO in Eastern, East Central and South Eastern Railways before being posted as Additional Member (Budget), Railway Board. ¥

Shri Vijay Kumar

LEFT : Nearly 70,000 environment friendly bio-toilets were installed in trains in

just 1 year. With every bio-toilet added, Railways has reduced waste discharge, helping save water and contributing to building a Swachh

Bharat.

RIGHT :Milestone achieved with over 2,000

Railway Stations connected to free & fast Wi-Fi. A step towards PM @

NarendraModi ji's vision of a Digital India, people from villages & small

towns are being digitally empowered with access to

knowledge and the outside world.

Shri Suresh C. Angadi flagging 2 Mobile Medical Vehicles from Rail Bhawan on 6.8.2019 which will provide basic medical care to the needy at their doorstep. A

good initiative by @RailTel which provided these vans to Seva Bharti org, that will cover patients in 30 Sewa Basties of East & South Delhi.

Shri Piyush Goyal hoisting the National Flag at his residence on the eve of 73rd Independence Day

Member Traffic, Railway Board Shri P.S. Mishra interacted with passengers of 12471 Swaraj Exp.on Ratlam Nagda section, along with officers of Ratlam

division.He interacted with 20-25 passengers in different coaches and sought their opinion for

improvement of various amenities

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Modern Coach Factory manufactured 554 coaches in 4 months, a whopping 50% jump over the same period in 2018 This factory in Raebareli started production under PM @NarendraModi Govt, & is

making modern coaches for Railways while bringing development & employment to local populace


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TOP : Booking an unreserved railway ticket is now easier than ever. Save your time by booking unreserved tickets through QR code scanning feature on UTS app. The app also enables booking tickets 3 days in advance for journeys 200 km or

longer.BOTTOM : Rail Drishti is a dynamic

platform offering a bouquet of useful railways related information for all

stakeholders. One can even check the status of ongoing development work at the local railway station. https://www.

raildrishti.in/

Commuters can dial the All India Security Helpline Number 182 to seek help anytime during their journey.

Nizamuddin Railway Station in New Delhi gets a complete makeover with colourful graffiti adorning its walls.

Indian Railways' Northeast Frontier Railway Zone has a unique initiative to

earmark a special portion of the SLR coach with pink colour. This is done to specially help the women passengers

with better safety and security.

Now Enjoy the Freedom to Surf Internet at Stations on #Indiaindependenceday 71

stations got connected to free Wi-Fi yesterday taking the total tally to 2,820 stations. Check the list of new stations:

Http://Bit.ly/Wifi14aug2019


LEFT : Sticky solution helps Central Railway prevent track-crossing, no deaths reported due to trespassing at Dadar since February 16. CENTRE : Mechanised cleaning started at Etawah and Tundla stations of Allahabad division. All major stations of Agra, Allahabad & Jhansi divisions in NCR are covered under Mechanised cleaning utilising latest machines for superior cleaning with minimal water usage. RIGHT : Indian Railways’ Eco-Friendly Move Towards Cost Effective Development: Old

used concrete sleepers used for constructing environment friendly platform surface at Sirsa, Dhanpatdih halt Station in Asansol Divn. More platform surfacing work utilizing scrap sleepers are in progress.

The service staff of Kota Jan Shatabdi &

Durg-Jammutawi Express has been

provided with uniforms

experience in train.The service

staff also carry POS machines to

maintain transparency in

billing procedures bearing the

message "No Bill-The Food is

Free", thus enhancing the

customer

On 30th May this year, Naxal

infested Keoti station of Bastar

region was connected with

Rail. At that time many children of

Keoti saw the train for the first time in their life.

Now we are Happy to

announce that free wi-fi Internet facility started at

KEOTI Railway Station.

INFOGRAPHICS

LEFT : Margherita station of Tinsukia Division, with murals dipicting coal mines and lush green Tea gardens that this town in upper Assam is famous for.

CENTRE : The traditional Manjusha Art of Bhagalpur,Bihar has been used to beautify the coaches of 12367/68 Vikramsila Express at Bhagalpur station of Malda Division.The local folk rich Vikramsila Express has been inaugurated on 10.08.19. A great initiative to connect the culture and art.

RIGHT : Mithila paintings now adorn the walls of Purnea and Jogbani stations of Katihar division. A local flavour reflecting the rich culture and heritage of the region.

64th NATIONAL AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICES -2019LIST OF AWARDEES

Sr. No. Name Designation Zone

1 Shri Rakesh S Pagi Office Superintendent Central Railway

2 Shri Ajit Deolal Mhasalkar

Protocol Inspector Central Railway

3 Shri Rajendra Nagesh Deshpande

Senior Section Engineer Central Railway

4 Shri Mikhil Kumar Karekar

Senior Efficiency Officer Central Railway

5 Shri Mohit Sorari Divisional Signal & Telecom Engineer

Central Railway

6 Shri Arun Kumar Divisional Electrical Engineer

Central Railway

7. Dr. Swapnil Dhanraj Nila

Senior Divisional Operations Manager

Central Railway

8. Dr. Deepak Dalmia Senior Divisional Medical Officer

Central Railway

9. Shri Sheikh Safikul Alam

Gateman Eastern Railway

10. Smt. Vilasi Minz Sub-Inspector Eastern Railway11. Shri Surendra Kumar Chief Ticket Inspector Eastern Railway12. Shri Barun Chandra

BarhSenior Section Engineer Eastern Railway

13. Shri Bijan Kumar Biswas

Senior Section Engineer Eastern Railway

14. Shri Ujjal Kumar Das Senior Section Engineer Eastern Railway15. Shri Ramesh Kumar Deputy Chief Accounts

OfficerEastern Railway

16. Shri Sajjan Paswan Track Maintainer East Central Railway

17. Shri Girijesh Kumar Constable East Central Railway

18. Shri Awani Bhushan Prasad Yadav

Loco Pilot East Central Railway

19. Shri Prakash Chandra Badal

Loco Pilot East Central Railway

20. Shri Ashok Kumar Divisional Environment & House Keeping Manager

East Central Railway

21. Shri Anil Kumar Singh Deputy Chief Engineer East Central Railway

22. Shri Mathusudanan T.V.

Deputy Financial Advisor & Chief Account Officer

East Central Railway

23. Shri Giridhari Sahu Chief Controller East Coast Railway

24. Shri Bichitrananda Pradhan

Senior Section Engineer East Coast Railway

25. Shri G. Suneel Kumar Divisional Commercial Manager

East Coast Railway

26. Shri Nand Lal Keyman Northern Railway

27. Shri Samay Singh Gurjar

Cabin Man Northern Railway

28. Smt. Manju Joshi Senior Matron Northern Railway

29. Shri Amit Kumar Bharti

Station Master Northern Railway

30. Shri Anwar Ansari Chief Goods Supervisor (Presently Commercial Inspector)

Northern Railway

31. Ms. Anuradha Singh Chief Ticket Inspector Northern Railway

32. Shri Paramjit Kumar Chief Loco Inspector Northern Railway

33. Shri Mukesh Kumar Chief Vigilance Inspector

Northern Railway


34. Shri Rajesh Kumar Sharma

Senior Section Officer (Accounts)

Northern Railway

35. Shri Sushil Kumar Assistant Divisional Signal & Telecom Engineer

Northern Railway

36. Shri Jagmohan C Laamba

Executive Engineer Northern Railway

37. Shri Swadesh Rai Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer

Northern Railway

38. Dr. Amit Ballani Senior Divisional Medical Officer

Northern Railway

39. Shri Rajesh Kumar Trackman North Central Railway

40. Shri Vinod Kumar Singh

Loco Pilot North Central Railway

41. Shri Himanshu Shekhar Upadhyay


North Central Railway

42. Shri Prakash Upadhyaya

Senior Divisional Engineer


43. Shri Parveen Kumar Inspector North Eastern Railway

44. Shri Farhat Mahmood Senior Section Engineer North Eastern Railway

45. Shri Ramveer Singh Senior Section Engineer North Eastern Railway

46. Shri Sumit Garg Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer

North Eastern Railway

47. Shri Pankaj Kumar Das

Senior Section Engineer Northeast Frontier Railway

48. Shri Himanshu Gunawat

Coaching Depot Officer Northeast Frontier Railway

49. Shri Harish Constable North Western Railway

50. Shri Virendra Johar Travelling Ticket Inspector

North Western Railway

51. Shri Manoj Kumar Singh

Senior Divisional Security Commissioner


52. Shri Satya Narayan Yadav

Senior Divisional Engineer


53. Shri Shyam Sundar Mangal

Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer


54. Shri Ajeet Kumar Pal Pointsman Southern Railway

55. Shri R. Pavunudurai Senior Loco Pilot Southern Railway

56. Shri M.P. Shinoj Kumar Sub-Inspector Southern Railway

57. Shri Shaji George Senior Section Engineer Southern Railway

58. Ms. F.R. Gnanaselvi Senior Section Officer (Accounts)

Southern Railway

59. Shri C. Dhanesh Kumar

Assistant Divisional Electrical Engineer

Southern Railway

60. Shri A. Vijuvin Senior Divisional Commercial Manager

Southern Railway

61. Shri Sanjeet Kumar Track Maintainer South Central Railway

62. Shri Gottumukkala Venkata Surapa Raju

Technician South Central Railway

63. Shri J. Kishore Junior Engineer South Central Railway

64. Shri Anjaneyulu Vadde Senior Divisional Operations Manager

South Central Railway



65. Shri N. Manoj Senior Divisional Operations Manager


66. Shri Allam Koteswara Rao

Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer


67. Shri Sudev Biswas Senior Section Engineer South Eastern Railway

68. Shri Indraneel Mukherjee

Section Controller South Eastern Railway

69. Shri Kamal Mustafa Senior Section Engineer South Eastern Railway

70. Shri Saurabh Raj Senior Assistant Divisional Engineer

South Eastern Railway

71. Shri Santosh Kumar Mallik

Divisional Operations Manager


72. Shri Vinek Meshram Sub-Inspector South East Central Railway

73. Shri Uday Kumar Bharti

Senior Divisional Personnel Officer

South East Central Railway

74. Shri Tanmay Mukhopadhyay

Senior Divisional Commercial Manager


75. Smt. Debashmita Chattopadhyay Banerjee

Security Commissioner South Western Railway

76. Shri K. Krishna Chaitanya

Divisional Commercial Manager

South Western Railway

77. Shri Govind Kumar Sharma

Assistant Divisional Engineer

Western Railway

78. Shri Brejesh D. Maurea

Assistant Commercial Manager

Western Railway

79. Shri Harikesh Meena Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer

Western Railway

80. Shri Rituraj Misra Senior Divisional Personnel Officer

Western Railway

81. Shri Ravi Ranjan Kumar

Senior Divisional Finance Manager

Western Railway

82. Shri G. Mohanan Nair Deputy General Manager (Retd.)

Western Railway

83. Shri Kameshwar Paswan

Deputy Chief Materials Manager

Western Railway

84. Shri Rakesh Pandey Track Maintainer West Central Railway

85. Shri Prakash Khewle Senior Section Engineer West Central Railway

86. Shri Madhur Verma Divisional Operations Manager

West Central Railway

87. Shri Sanjay Tiwari Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer


88. Shri Vijay Pandey Senior Divisional Engineer


89. Shri Tapash Kumar Das

Constable Metro Railway Kolkata

90. Shri Ankit Kumar Verma

Senior Section Engineer Chittaranjan Locomotive Works

91. Dr. Jaydip Mitra Senior Divisional Medical Officer

Chittaranjan Locomotive Works

92. Shri Vijay Deputy Chief Design Engineer

Diesel Locomotive Works

93. Shri R. Ravi Chief Office Superintendent

Integral Coach Factory

94. Shri T. Dilip Kumar Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer



95. Shri Bharthari Kumar Senior Section Engineer Rail Coach Factory

96. Shri Basanagouda Patil

Senior Technician (Retd.)

Rail Wheel Factory

97. Shri Ramesh Kumar Technician Central Organisation of Railway Electrification

98. Shri Santosh Kumar Rajula

Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer

Central Organisation of Railway Electrification

99. Shri Manoj Kumar Singh

Deputy Chief Signal & Telecom Engineer

Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction)

100. Shri Rajeev Roushan Assistant Inspection Engineer

Research Designs and Standards Organisation

101. Shri Amjad Ali Nizami Senior Instructor Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering

102. Shri Awadhesh Kumar Singh

Station Master & Infrastructure Incharge

Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management

103. Shri Arvind Dutta Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer

Diesel Loco Modernisation Works

104. Shri Beeraj Kumar Assistant Works Manager

Rail Wheel Plant

105. Shri Prabhat Ranjan Shukla

Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer

Modern Coach Factory

106. Shri Anurag Kumar Mishra

Multi Tasking Staff Railway Board

107. Shri Sachidanand Chaudhary

Personal Assistant Railway Board

108. Shri Lakshman Singh Rawat

Personal Assistant Railway Board

109. Shri Suresh Chandra Jaiswal

Senior Section Engineer Railway Board

110. Shri Vijay Singh Section Officer Railway Board111. Shri Ashok Kumar Section Officer Railway Board112. Shri Virendra Kumar Deputy Director Railway Board113. Ms. Monika Deputy Director Railway Board114. Shri B.L. Lohia Deputy Director Railway Board115. Smt. Padma Sharma Joint Director Railway Board116. Shri V. Prakash Joint Director Railway Board 117. Shri Rohit Parmar Director, Railway Board CONCOR118. Shri Abhishek Kumar Director Railway Board119. Shri Jawahar Lal Director Railway Board120. Shri D. K. Chawla Chief Office

SuperintendentNorthern Railway

121. Shri Deepak Mulchandani


Western Railway

122. Shri Vikas Wadhwa Office Superintendent Northern Railway

123. Shri K. R. Vinayak Rao Chief Office Superintendent

Railway Recruitment Board/Bangalore

124. Shri Sanjay Kumar Senior Secretariat Assistant

Railway Board

125. Shri Balakrishna Sahoo

Section Officer Railway Board


RAILWAY WEEK

SHIELD WINNERS

Name of Shield Winner Railway

Comprehensive Health Care Shield East Coast Railway

Security Shield North Western Railway

Civil Engineering Shield Western Railway, South Central Railway and Northern Railway (Jointly)

Rolling Stock Shield (earlier Mechanical Engineering Shield) Eastern Railway

Electrical Engineering Shield North Western Railway

Signal & Telecommunication Engineering Shield South Eastern Railway and East Central Railway (Jointly).

Stores Shield South Western Railway & South Central Railway (Jointly)

Traffic Transportation Shield South Central Railway

Accounts & Finance Management Shield East Coast Railway

Commercial Shield Eastern Railway

Civil Engineering Construction Shield South Western Railway and South Eastern Railway (Jointly)

Personnel Management Shield South Central Railway

Best Production Unit Shield Modern Coach Factory

Environment & Cleanliness Shield Western Railway

Best Workshop (Rolling Stock) Shield

Golden Rock Workshop of Southern Railway and Jagadhari Workshop of Northern Railway (Jointly)

Running Room Shield Amla Running Room, Nagpur Division of Central Railway

Sales Management Shield Western Railway

Level Crossing and Road Over/Under Bridge Safety Works Shield Northern Railway and Western Railway (Jointly)

Safety Shield Eastern Railway

Govind Vallabh Pant Shield South Eastern Railway

WINNERS OF INTER-RAILWAY PAINTING COMPETITIONIST

Shri P. Shyam Sundar Rao Achary Peon

East Coast Railway

IINDShri Chandra Prakash Ramtahal

Helper/Khalasi Central Railway


RAILWAY WEEK

WINNERS OF HINDI ESSAY COMPETITION

GAZETTED

ISTShri Aaditya Aaryan

Senior Section Engineer Traction & Rolling Stock

East Coast Railway

ISTShri Himanshu Jain

Secretary to GM South East Central Railway

IINDShri Abdul Naseem

Health Inspector Southern Railway

IINDShri Pravinchandra N. Parmar

Sr. Professor (Transportation Management)National Academy of Indian Railways, Vadodara

NON - GAZETTED

WINNERS : SOUTHERN RAILWAY

GAZETTED

NON - GAZETTED

RUNNERS : ICF

WINNERS OF ENGLISH ESSAY COMPETITION

ISTMs. D. Lavanya

Chief Publicity InspectorIntegral Coach Factory

ISTShri Rajiv Kumar Saxena

SDGM & CVO South Western Railway

IINDShri Neeraj Kumar

Senior Section EngineerCentral Railway

IINDShri T. Delson Joseph

Deputy FA & CAOIntegral Coach Factory

WINNERS OF INTER-RAILWAY QUIZ COMPETITION (TEAM EVENT)

WINNERS OF INTER-RAILWAY DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Shri P. V. Manoj DCM/SA

Shri Toneesh Thomas CTI/TVC

Shri P. R. Girish KumarJE/TVC

ISTPublic Relations Department,

East Coast Railway Shri J. P. Mishra

Chief Public Relations Officer

Smt. S. Vijayachithra SE/IT

Shri Santosh J. AbrahamSE/IT

Shri K. Puroshothama Reddy Chief OS

IINDPublic Relations Department, Northeast Frontier Railway

Shri P. J. Sharma Chief Public Relations Officer


RAILWAY WEEK


Atmanand Srivastava CTI

Md. Aijaz Khan Senior Clerk

Deepa Singh Office Superintendent

Rizwan Ali Khan Office Superintendent

Ganesh Swaroop Virha CTI

IIND Prize WEST CENTRAL RAILWAY

S/Shri/Smt./Ms.

Solo Dance (Classical)

Pooja Visht Trackman/JPB

Kanchan Paseriya Office Assistant

Arvind Paseriya Junior Clerk

Dilip Chhipelkar Junior Clerk

Jwel John Philip Office Superintendent

WINNERS OF INTER-RAILWAY CULTURAL COMPETITION

Jayant Takri TA-I

Sabita Banachor KSI/HP

Arun Kumar Suna TM-II/TIG/SBP

Sanjib Kumar Biswal TM-IV

Satya Narayan Bhoi TM-IV

Suchismita Sarangi Helper-II

Ashok Kumar Nag Helper-II

Bhanupriya Mahananda Helper-II

Arun Tandi TM-IV

Nirjharini Maharana KSI/HP-I

Group Dance (Folk)

IST Prize EAST COAST RAILWAY

S/Shri/Smt./Ms.

Light Vocal (Male)

Light Vocal (Female)

IST

Shri Pankaj Bandu Jadhao Senior Clerk


IIND

Shri Gaurav Kumar Pathak Junior Clerk


IST

Smt. Pushpa Tripathi Senior Clerk


IIND

Ms. Subhashree Dam Junior Clerk

North Eastern Railway

IST

Ms. Mousumi Saha Office Superintendent

Chittaranjan Locomotive Works

IIND

Ms. Maheswari PradhanJunior Clerk


RAILWAY WEEK

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September 2019

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E-Ticket Facility in Indian Railways

Online ticketing through Indian Railway Catering and Tourism

Corporation (IRCTC) website was started in 2002 by introducing the concept of i-ticket where the ticket was booked through IRCTC website and the physical ticket was delivered through courier at the address given by the passenger. Subsequently in 2005, e-ticketing was introduced wherein passenger was required to take a print-out of the Electronic Reservation Slip (ERS) and carry one of the prescribed proofs of identity in original for undertaking travel subject to appearance of name in the reservation chart. At present, passengers who have booked e-tickets can either take a print-out of the Electronic Reservation Slip (ERS) or can display the Virtual Reservation Message (VRM)/Short Message Service (SMS) sent by IRCTC containing all vital details.

The details of earnings from e-ticketing during last two years and the current year are as under:-

The year-wise details of total number of tickets cancelled along with percentage of e-tickets cancelled with respect to total tickets cancelled are as under:-

has to give an option at the time of booking of ticket and passengers with waiting list status at the time of preparation of first reservation charts are shifted to other trains, subject to availability of vacant accommodation.

The waiting list position of trains is monitored on regular basis and to cater to additional rush during peak periods special trains are run and load of existing trains are augmented subject to operational feasibility. The current provisions/schemes aim at reducing uncertainty regarding confirmation of ticket and provide reserved accommodation to the extent possible. This is an on-going and continuous process.

In case the status of an e-ticket continues to remain fully waitlisted even after the preparation of first reservation chart, then the names of all such passengers booked on that Passenger Name Record (PNR) are dropped from the reservation chart. The due refund of fare is credited directly to the account from which booking transaction is done in such cases. Due to the auto-refund facility for fully waitlisted e-tickets, such passengers are saved from the botheration of taking refund from the Railway reservation counters. ¥

Financial Year

Earnings from e-ticketing (` in crore)

2017-18 28,475.462018-19 32,069.682019-20 (upto June)

8,791.12

Financial Year

Total number of

tickets cancelled (in lakhs)

Percentage of e-tickets can celled

with respect to total tickets

cancelled2017-18 755.95 73.362018-19 837.47 77.732019-20 (upto June)

237.90 79.17

In order to enhance passenger convenience, a tool to predict the pro bability of waitlisted ticket getting confirmed at the time of booking as well as during PNR enquiry of waitlisted ticket has been integrated with IRCTC web-site. Further, with a view to pro-viding confirmed accommo dation to waiting list passengers and to ensure optimal utilization of avail-able accommodation, a scheme known as Alternate Train Acco-mmo dation (ATAS) known as “VIKALP” has been introduced to cover all types of trains on all se-ctors. The scheme aims at providing waiting list passengers acco mmodation in alternate train having vacant accommodation. For this facility, waiting list passenger

Cleanliness of Toilets and Wash Rooms in Railways

Maintenance of cleanliness of toilets and wash rooms of

trains and station areas is a continuous process and all efforts are being made to improve their condition and cleanliness.

Some of the major initiatives taken by Indian Railways towards improvement in condition and cleanliness of toilets in trains and at Railway stations are as follows:zz Cleaning of coaches including

toilets of trains is done at both ends including mechanized cleaning.zz On Board Housekeeping Service

(OBHS) has been provided in nearly 1080 pairs of trains including Rajdhani, Shatabdi and other

important long distance Mail/Express trains for cleaning of coach toilets, doorways, aisles and passenger compartments during the run of the trains.zz ‘Coach Mitra’ service has been

provided in around 1040 pairs of OBHS trains as a single window interface to register coach related requirements of passengers such as cleaning, disinfestation, linen, train lighting, air conditioning and watering of coaches.zz Clean Train Station (CTS)

scheme has also been prescribed for limited mechanized cleaning attention to identified trains including cleaning of toilets during

their scheduled stoppages enroute at nominated stations.zz Indian Railways is proliferating

bio-toilets on its coaching stock so that no human waste is discharged from coaches on to the track. Nearly 2,05,000 bio-toilets have been fitted on around 56,700 coaches.zz Provision of dustbins with bio-

toilets in coaches.zz Integrated mechanised cleaning

contracts at stations including cleaning of toilets.zz Separate toilets for men and

women are provided as per norms at all NSG-1, NSG-2, NSG-3, NSG-4, NSG-5, NSG-6, SG-1, SG-2 and SG-3 category railway stations.

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However, upgradation of ame-nities at stations including toilets is a continuous and on-going process and 2894 toilets were constructed/ improved in the past four years, and further, construction/ impro-vement works in this regard are being undertaken depending upon need, volume of the passenger traffic and priority subject to availability of funds. zz Operation of public toilets, both

deluxe and normal, with ladies and gents units, is also being done through Public Private Partnership (PPP) model on ‘Pay and Use’ basis. Zonal Railways have been autho-rized regarding operation and mainte nance, including cleanliness of these ‘Pay and Use’ toilets through contracts.zz Special Cleanliness Campaign

under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched on Indian Railways on 2nd October, 2014. Regular intensive campaigns / awareness drives have been organised since then over the Indian Railways with the sole

objective to achieve significant and sustainable improvements in cleanliness standards of railway stations and trains.zz Regular checks are conducted at

officers and supervisors levels, and corrective action is taken wherever any deficiency is noticed.zz Enforcement of Indian Railway

(Penalties for activities affecting cleanliness at railway premises) Rules, 2012.

Complaints/Grievances are regi-stered under the heads ‘Cleanliness at Stations’ and ‘Cleanliness in Coaches’ which include cleanliness of toilets.

Railways had conducted last third party survey regarding cleanliness at 407 major Railway Stations in the country including cleanliness of toilets in 2018. A third party train cleanliness survey on 209 pairs of trains was also carried out in 2018 to assess the Swachhata parameters of the running trains including cleanliness of toilets.

The details of these surveys are available under -

Swachh Rail Swachh Bharat – 2018 - Train Cleanliness Survey, and Station Cleanliness Ranking Report–2018 on Indian Railways website at http://www.indianrailways.gov.in -> Ministry of Railways -> Railway Board -> About Indian Railways -> Corporate Overview -> Directorates -> Environment Management.These Reports have been shared

with zonal railways for necessary improvements. Production Units (PUs) have been advised to fit vacuum assisted flushing system along with Bio–toilets in all newly manufactured Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) AC coaches.

Vacuum flushing system toilet substantially reduces the requirement of water for flushing, while ensuring effective / proper flushing of faecal matter from the pans. Hence, it ensures proper flushing with less water. ¥

Steps Taken to Prevent E-Ticketing Touts in Indian Railways

During rush period like festivals, summer vacations, holidays

etc. when demand exceeds availa-bility, some instances of attempt to misuse reservation system do come to notice. However, in order to pre-vent the activities of unscru pulous elements including touts, several checks have been deployed by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) including the following:zz Creation of only one IRCTC User

ID on a given mobile number and email ID.zz Setting a limit of booking 6

Railway tickets by an individual user in a month. This limit has been revised to 12 Railway tickets in a month for those individual users who have linked their IRCTC user ID with their respective Aadhaar number and ensured that at least one of the passengers in the passenger list is verifiable through Aadhaar.

zz Checking of User IDs on daily basis and deactivation of those IDs found using malpractices like fast booking of tickets. Around 1.26 lakh user IDs have been deactivated from 1 April, 2018 to 31 May, 2019.zz Checking of Tatkal tickets booked

in first minute for frivolous users on daily basis and cance llation/release of such tickets on suspicion.zz Only one booking in one user

login session except for return/ onward journey between 800 and 1200 hours.zz Checks applied on minimum

time required to enter the passe-nger details and displayed CAPTCHA at the time of e-ticket booking by users.zz Restriction on authorized agents

of IRCTC for booking tickets during first fifteen minutes of opening of Advance Reservation Period (ARP) booking and Tatkal booking.

Regular checks are conducted in mass contact areas such as Passenger

Reservation System (PRS) centres, booking offices, platforms, trains etc. to prevent unauthorized ticketing activities including the use of scripting software. Such checks are also intensified during peak period like festivals, holidays etc. The number of touts arrested along with number of e-tickets recovered from them during the last two years is as under:-

Year Number of touts arrested

Total number of e-tickets recovered

2017 1261 115002018 2391 78001

Unauthorized carrying on of business of procuring and supplying of railway tickets is a punishable offence under Section 143 of the Railways Act, 1989. The persons found involved in such illegal activities are punished as per extant legal provisions laid down in Section 143 of the Railways Act, 1989. ¥

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Steps Taken to Make Rail Transportation Attractivecoaches as AC chair car on AC chair car fare.

Freight Segmentzz Long term tariff contract with

major customers envisages growth and retention of traffic by offering incentive over benchmark.zz Traditional Empty Flow Dire-

ction (TEFD) policy offers freight rebate to customers in notified streams enabling mutual gains to both customers and Railways.zz Schemes such as General

Purpose Wagon Investment Scheme (GPWIS), Liberalised Wagon Investment Scheme (LWIS), Special Freight Train Operator (SFTO), and Automobiles Freight Train Operator (AFTO) have been launchedzz Container traffic has been given

incentives in the form of :z¾ 25% concession in empty

haulagez¾ Denotification of additional

commodities to Freight all kind (FAK) carriagez¾ Launch of multiple Railway

Receipt (RR) and electronic transmission of RR

zz Rationalization of Terminal Access charge (TAC) to dual operation to single charge.zz Freight rationalization @8.75%

w.e.f 1 November, 2018 leaving essential goods like foodgrains, salt intact. Other commodities freight like fertilizers, cement, POL also kept intact in the interest of far-mers, infrastructure requirement of economy and keep general infla-tionary components pegged down as fuel is vital in product pricing.

Various initiatives have been undertaken by Indian Railways towards capacity augmentation works including the following:-zJ There has been an increase of

about 42% in the Capital Expenditure done by the Indian Railways in the last four years for financing of various capacity augmentation works like Dedicated Freight Corridors, High-speed Rail, high capacity Rolling stock, last mile rail linkage port connectivity and Bullet trains. Capital expenditure

Indian Railways have registered a growth of 1.8% in the number of

passengers carried and 5% in freight traffic in 2018-19 as com-pared to the previous year. Indian Railways have taken many mea-sures to increase its share which includes the following:

Passeneger Segmentzz Augmentation of on-board

capacity by attachment of additional coaches, running of special trains during festivals and holidays, running of Suvidha trains etc.zz Augmentation of ticket selling

capacity through mobile ticket booking, operation of Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVM), utilizing the services of ticketing agents like Jan Sadharan Ticket Booking Sewaks (JTBS), Station Ticket Booking Agents (STBA), Yatri Ticket Suvidha Kendra (YTSK) etc.zz Expansion of digital payment

modes like net-banking, credit/debit cards, e-wallets, Unified Pay-ment Interface (UPI)/Bharat Inter-face for Money (BHIM) to enhance passenger conveniencezz Introduction of Alternate Train

Accommodation Scheme (ATAS) known as VIKALP to provide con-firmed accommodation to wait-listed passengers and also to ensure optimal utilization of available accommodation.zz Offering of 10% discount in basic

fare on vacant berths/seats booked after preparation of first reservation charts.zz Offering of graded discount in

flexi fare trains and Humsafar trains, where class-wise occupancy is less than 60%, 4 days prior to scheduled departure of the train.zz To facilitate second class pa-

ssengers, sleeper class coaches ru-nning underutilized have been de-reserved on a particular section as second class unreserved on second class fare as well as sleeper class unreserved.zz In case of AC-III tier coaches

running vacant during day time over a particular section, the power has been delegated to Zonal Rail-ways to declare such AC-III tier

done by the Railways in last four years is as under:-

zz Ministry of Railways has sanctioned two Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC) at the total cost of `81,459 crore, Eastern DFC (1856 kms) is having approx. 50% loan support from World Bank and the Sonnagar-Dankuni section (538 kms) is to be implemented through Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Western DFC (1504 kms) substantially funded through soft loan from Japan International Coo-pe ration Agency (JICA). Out of total estimated cost of `81,459 crore, `52,347 crore are being provided through loans from World Bank and JICA. The DFC project would help in segregation of freight and passenger services, decongestion of existing routes, improvement in efficiency of the passenger services, higher transportation output with faster transit time due to increase in average speed of trains. Running of planned double stack container trains and heavy haul trains will fu-r ther augment to the carrying capa-city and thus help increase Rail-way’s market-share in freight se g ment and also help in reducing the unit cost of freight trans-portation.zz A High Speed Rail Project has

been sanctioned between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, which is being implemented with Japanese technical and financial assistance of 81% of estimated total project cost `1,08,000 crore. The total length of the Project is 508 kms and having 12 stations. The maximum design speed will be 350 kmph and operating speed will be 320 kmph. The project is likely to be completed by 2023.

Year Overall Capital Expenditure (` In crore)

2015-16 93519.792016-17 108290.142017-18 101985.472018-19 (Prov.)

133387.05

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Further Ministry of Railways has issued a policy framework for par-ticipative models in 2012 for attracting investments in rail connectivity and capacity augme-

ntation projects from sea ports, large mines, logistic parks and other industries/industrial clusters. Under participative models, 11 projects of `4000 crore have been

implemented, 12 projects of `20877 crore are under impleme ntation and 7 projects of `13046 crore have been granted in-principle approval by Ministry of Railways. ¥

Increasing Speed of Premium Trains

Speeds of train services operating on Indian Railways, including

those of Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express services are dependent inter-alia on factors such as maximum permissible speed of the section, type of coaches, capacity utilization of sections enroute, signalling and interlocking systems, etc. At present, all the Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express services are being operated at the maximum permissible speeds of the sections enroute. Speeding up of express trains, including Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express services, is a constant endeavour and continuous process on Indian Railways.

In its constant endeavour to provide more comfortable and safer journeys to the travelling passengers, Indian Railways operate almost all Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express services with

LHB rakes which have better speed potential and safety features. The superior design of LHB rakes provides enhanced safety in case of derailment or accidents. Besides, systems are in place to ensure that train coaches are given stipulated maintenance schedules and unsafe coaches are not allowed in passenger train service. Railways are Implementing Automatic Train Protection (ATP) Systems in selected sections. These systems have the facility of displaying movement authority in front of the Loco Pilot in the cab. This helps Loco Pilot to run the train confidently even during impaired visibility. The types of ATP systems working and those in- progress are:-zz Train Protection and Warning

System: Train Protection and Warning System(TPWS) based on

European Technology ETCS Level-1 has been provided on 345 RKMs (Route Kilo Meters) on Indian Railways.zz Auxiliary Warning System

(AWS): An ATP called Auxiliary Warning System (AWS) is presently functional on 413 RKMs in the Mumbai suburban sections of Central Railway (289 RKMs) and Western Railway (124RKMS).zz Train Collision Avoidance System

(TCAS): TCAS is an Automatic Train Protection System being developed in association with 3 Indian manufacturers. The system has been installed on Lingampalli-Vikrabad-Wadi, Vikrabad-Bidar section (250 RKMs) on SCR. Product of all the 3 firms has been approved by RDSO for developmental orders for speeds up to 110 kmph in Absolute Block Sections. ¥

Availability of Quality Food at Stations and in Trains

To provide quality and hygienic food to passengers, a new

Catering Policy has been issued on 27th February 2017 vide which Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has been mandated to carry out unbundling of catering services by creating a distinction between food preparation and food distribution on trains. For this purpose, meals for trains are to be sourced from kitchens owned, operated and managed by IRCTC. To ensure hygienic and good quality food to passengers, following me-as ures have been taken by Railways:zz To upgrade quality of food

preparation, IRCTC has upgraded 46 Kitchen Units in the last two years. To ensure centralized monitoring of the kitchen activities, CCTVs have been installed in 38 Kitchen Units. Sharing of live streaming of the Kitchen Units

through website of IRCTC has been made operational.zz To ensure compliance of Food

Safety Norms, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) certification from Designated Food Safety Officers of each catering unit has been made mandatory. Food Safety Supervisors have been deployed at Kitchen Units to monitor food safety and hygienic practices. Food samples collected by Food Safety Officers/Supervisors are sent to the nominated accredited Laboratories under Food Safety & Standard Act for analysis and testing. Penalties are imposed in cases of detection of unsatisfactory food samples.zz Examination of quality of food,

hygiene and cleanliness in Pantry Cars and Kitchen Units is done through Third Party Audit. Customer satisfaction survey is also conducted through Third Party

Agencies.zz Regular and surprise inspections

are conducted by Railway officials including Food Safety Officers.zz In addition to above, to ensure

hygienic and good quality food to passengers, following measures have also been initiated by Railways:

zJ System of printing QR code and other details like name of kitchen, date of packaging etc. on food packets has been initiated.

zJ Introduction of Ready to Eat (RTE) Meals.

zJ Provision of E-Catering services in trains.

zJ Monitoring and supervision of catering service through operation of centralized Catering Service Monitoring Cell (CSMC) toll free number 1800-111-321, Twitter handle, CPGRAMS, E-Mail and SMS

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based complaints redressal.In its endeavour to provide

quality and hygienic food to the passengers, Railways have institutionalized a mechanism for monitoring of quality, hygiene and sale of catering items at notified

rates through regular inspections at various levels. The prescribed tariff of catering items has already been notified for both mobile and static catering units on Indian Railways. The notified menu and tariff are displayed prominently for

information of passengers and is also available on websites of IRCTC/Indian Railways, in Trains at a Glance, Pantry Cars etc. “No Bill- The food is for FREE” campaign has also been launched by Indian Railways. ¥

Maintenance of Coaches

Repair and improvement in coaches is a continuous process

on Indian Railways (IR). The various steps taken by IR in this regard are:-zz The coaches running on IR are

given periodic stipulated mainte-nance schedules during which required repairs are attended to.zz Systems are in place in order to

ensure that passenger coaches that have completed their prescribed service life or are unfit for service, are not allowed in train service over IR.zz IR also undertakes Mid-Life

Rehabilitation (MLR) of conventional Integral Coach Factory (ICF) type Mainline coaches, that are in service for 12-15 years, in a programmed manner. Extensive body repairs, bogie repairs, wheel overhauling, trimming of berths, water tank repairs, painting etc. are done on

these coaches.The various steps taken by IR to

induct / replace existing coaches with new / improved version coaches are:-zz With a view to provide safer and

more comfortable journey to the travelling passengers, it has been decided to proliferate/induct modern Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches and convert trains operating with conventional ICF type coaches by LHB coaches, in a phased manner. To this end, Production Units of IR are producing only LHB coaches from 2018-19 onwards and presently, 411 pairs of trains on IR are being operated with LHB coaches. Recently, state-of-the-art Train-set Vande Bharat service has also been introduced between New Delhi – Varanasi.zz IR had launched Project Utkrisht

in April 2018 in order to improve

the condition of coaches running in Mail / Express trains. Upgradation of 640 rakes of Mail / Express trains has been taken up under Project Utkrisht for improvement in patronized train services. On Board cleanliness, coach interiors, toilets, exterior etc. in train coaches will improve under Project Utkrisht. The coaches will also be painted with a new vibrant colour scheme. Work in more than 135 rakes has already been completed under Project Utkrisht.zz IR had launched Project Swarn

in May 2017 with the objective of significantly improving the passenger experience across multiple dimensions, which include coach interiors, toilets, onboard cleanliness, staff behaviour, linen, etc. in premium Rajdhani and Shatabdi train services. Work in 58 out of 67 rakes has already been completed. ¥

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Railway Connectivity in Northeast Getting Full ThrustA Report from PR Deptt., Northeast Frontier Railway

As per Vision Document 2020, Government has planned to

connect all State Capitals of North Eastern States by 2020 except Sikkim in which case, new line work has been sanctioned up to Rangpo in first phase. The capitals of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura States have been connected by Broad Gauge (BG) rail network.

Great emphasis has been given by Central Government during last 5 years towards quick execution of infrastructure and safety projects and funding to the infrastructure projects has increased considerably. The average annual expenditure in New Line/Gauge Conversion/ Doubling infrastructure projects during 2014-19 was ` 25,894 crore per year as against ` 11,527 crore per year during 2009-14 which is around 125% more than during 2009-14. The average allotment per year for North Eastern States was ` 2121 crore per year from 2009-14. However, it increased 161% to ` 5531 crore per year for this region during 2014-19.

In Arunachal Pradesh, a BG railway line was commissioned in February, 2015 up to Naharlagun (suburban city of Itanagar) and first Broad Gauge (BG) train was flagged off by Prime Minister on 20 February, 2015 from Naharlagun (Itanagar) to New Delhi. Long pending and delayed work of Bogibeel Bridge on Brahmaputra river was completed in 2018 leading to further reduction of travel distance from Dibrugarh to Naharlagun (Itanagar) by 705 km (via Guwahati).

First BG trial train to the State of Tripura (Agartala) was received by Minister of State of Railways on 13 January, 2016 and first BG passenger train (long distance) was int ro duced to Delhi on 31 July, 2016.

In some States, the progress of new line projects of Capital conne-ctivity has been affected mainly due to delay in land acquisition and law

& order issues. All these Capital connectivity projects being in hilly terrain of Himalayas involve large number of tunnels and major bridges including very tall bridges in a very challenging geological environment.

Works of new BG lines have been taken up by Railway by its own fund to connect the remaining Capitals of North Eastern States i.e. Meghalaya (Shillong), Manipur (Imphal), Nagaland (Kohima), Mizoram (Aizawl) and Sikkim (Gangtok). Details with present status of these projects are as under:

Manipur: The project of BG line connectivity from Jiribam to Imphal (110.62 km) in Manipur State was sanctioned in 2003-04. The latest anticipated cost of the project is ` 13,809 crore and expenditure of ` 6,969.49 crore has been incurred on the project up to 31 March, 2019.

The section from Jiribam to Van-gaichungpao (12 km) was commi-ssioned in March, 2017 and works from Vangaichungpao-Tupul-Imphal (98.62 km) have been taken up throughout the length. The work of land acquisition has been completed in 102.62 km length of the project and work of acquisition of balance land of 8 km length has been taken up. Target date for completion is 3 years after complete land is handed over to the Railways.

Mizoram :The project of BG line connectivity from Bhairabi to Sairang (51.38 km) (suburban city of Aizawl, the Capital city of Mizoram) in Mizoram was sanctioned in 2008-09. The latest anticipated cost of the project is ` 4,968 crore and the land could be made available in 2014-15 and work speeded up from 2015-16 & the expenditure of ` 1,958.09 crore has been incurred on the project up to 31 March, 2019.

The construction work has been taken up throughout the length of project and 80% tunneling work has been completed and the work

on 6 tall bridges has been taken up. For complete commissioning of the project, the work of acquisition of balance 53.90 Hectare of land has been taken up. Target date for completion for complete project is 2 years after complete land is handed over to Railways.

Nagaland: The project of BG line connectivity from Dimapur (Dhansiri)-Zubza (Kohima) (82.50 km) (suburban city of Kohima, the Capital city of Nagaland) in Naga-land was sanctioned in 2006-07.The latest anticipated cost of the project is ` 3,000 crore and the work speeded up from September, 2018 and the expenditure of ` 626.67 crore has been incurred on the project up to 31 March, 2019.

The construction work has been taken up throughout the length of project. For complete commission of the project, the work of acquiring balance land in 6 km length has been taken up (ownership dispu-tes). Target date for completion for complete project is 3 years after complete land is handed over to Railways.

Meghalaya: Two projects of BG line have been taken up for Capital connectivity of Meghalaya.i) New BG line from Tetelia –

Byrnihat (21.50 km) in Meghalaya was sanctioned in 2006-07. The latest anticipated cost of the project is ` 1532 crore and the work speeded up from 2014-15; 10 km length of the project falling in Assam State from Tetelia to Kamalajari got completed in October, 2018 and expenditure of ` 515.82 crore has been incurred up to 31 March, 2019. Some organizations are stating that railway con-nectivity may lead to influx of outsiders and this has led to some local resistance to this project. Now, the issue has been taken up for early resolution. Target date for completion not fixed, as the same would be decided, once the complete land

Chennal Egmore-Kollam Express Gets Refurbished Rake Under Project Utkrisht

A Report by PR Deptt., Southern Railway

Refurbished Rake Under Project Utkrisht

Chennai Division of Southern Railway

got its third Utkrist rake in Train No 16101/16102 Chennai Egmore – Kollam – Chennai Egmore Express which was intro duced on 28 June, 2019 from Chennai Egmore. The train has 14 upgraded Utkrisht coaches inclu ding Two 3-Tier AC Coaches, 8 Sleeper Class Coaches, Two General Second Class Coaches and Two Luggage cum Brake Vans. This rake will be primarily maintained at Tambaram coaching Depot. For this rake, the coaches have been up graded at Perambur Carriage Work shop, Perambur Loco workshop and Golden rock work shop, Ponmalai.

The First Utkrisht service of Train No. 16181/16182 Chennai Egmore - Sengottai Silabmbu Express was started on 13 February, 2019 from Chennai Egmore and the second train service 22657/22658 Tambaram-Nagercoil Tri-weekly Express was started on 8 May, 2019 with upgraded Utkrisht coaches. The third Utkrisht rake of Chennai Division is Train No 16101/16102 Chennai Egmore–Kollam–Chennai Egmore Express which was started on 28 June, 2019 from Chennai Egmore. The fourth Utkrisht rake of Chennai Division would be that of Train No.16021/16022 Puratchi Thalaivar Dr MG Ramachandran Central Railway Station–Mysuru Kaveri Express likely during the

first week of July 2019.Utkrisht coaches are

environment-friendly 'green coaches' developed as a part of Utkrisht Project of Indian Railways, the coaches have many unique provisions. All coaches of this rake are fitted with energy efficient LED tube lights, panel of LED lights in doorway and gangway, provision of dustbins in the toilets, stickers with 'Go Green' messages, provision of integrated basin-cum-dustbins in AC coaches.

The toilets in this train have been provided a hybrid design of bio toilet system. Toilet has the advantages of less water consumption, no chocking of the system, complete sealing of odour and is maintenance friendly, with Epoxy flooring for better aesthetics and longer lifespan. It ensures proper floor level with slope to stop water stagnating on the floor. Eco friendly Bio-tanks have been fitted in all Utkrisht coaches with ventilation system for fresh air circulation in wash rooms. A separate stainless steel dustbin for toilets is placed for all the coaches.

There is an auto janitor system

to spray air freshener every few minutes automatically and health faucets have been provided in all lavatories for its ease of use for hygiene. Hydrophobic coating has been done on wash basins, wall protectors and squatting

pans. Double charging point has been provided in all reserved coaches. These coaches are provided with Fire Extinguisher and with anti-theft Mechanism for passenger safety. Panel replacement has been done in the doorway and gangway area. The upholstery of the coach seats is redone to give a new look. Vinyl sticker wrapping has been used in Coach entrance panels to give aesthetically pleasing look and good finishing. The provision of Braille signage for berth numbers and information stickers has been provided in these coaches. The rakes have also been given a new colour scheme on the exterior beige and maroon. Exteriors of these coaches have been painted with high quality PU-Paint for pro-te ction of inner surface from fre-quent corr osion and keep the coach looking new for long time. A layer of anti-graffiti paint has been ap-plied on the top of the PU-paint to give a bright and reflective finish. High quality reflective vinyl, sti-ckers have been used for coach information indication and desti na-tion stickers are used in lieu of sten cilling with paint in this rake. ¥

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is physically handed over to Railways.

ii) New BG line from Byrnihat to Shillong (108.40 km) was sanctioned in 2010-11. The latest anticipated cost of the project is ` 6000 crore and the expenditure of ` 252.68 crore has been incurred on the project up to 31 March, 2019. Target date for completion not fixed, as the same would be decided,

once the land is physically handed over to Railways.Sikkim:The project of BG line

connectivity from Sivok to Rangpo (44.39 km) was sanctioned in 2008-09. The latest anticipated cost of the project is ` 4085.69 crore and the expenditure of ` 554.46 crore has been incurred on the project up to 31 March, 2019.

However, the project is suffering for a long time as the Government

of West Bengal has not given encu-mbrance free land (77.78 Hectare forest land after cutting of trees) to Railway due to which, even the timely finalization of tenders is getting affected. The issue is being consistently chased with Govern-ment of West Bengal. Target date for completion for complete project is 3 years after complete physical possession of land given to Railways. ¥

Free High-Speed Wi-Fi Provided by SCR Being Used by more than 10 Lakh Rail Passengers in a Month

A Report by P.R. Deptt., S.C. Railway

Taking forward the Digital India Mission, Indian

Railways and Rail Tel Corporation of India Ltd, a subsidiary of Indian Railways, has formulated a plan to implement digital initiatives on its entire rail network. As part of this, Free High speed Wi-Fi facility is being provided to benefit the rail users at stations. Starting with Mumbai Central in January 2016, provision of free Wi-Fi named RailWire is extended as much to 1600 major and minor railway stations of Indian Railways within 2 years 4 months duration. It is estimated that 20,000 users everyday are first time users of the internet over Indian Railways. Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager/SCR opined that, in the present scenario, the use of smart phone & internet has increased enormously with revolutionary change in Technology and therefore free high-speed Wi-Fi will surely help the passengers in all ways like entertainment, information, know-ledge, communi cation and skills. Generally, Railway stations are mass contact areas and providing this facility will help in ease out the waiting time of passengers at stations, he added.

General Manager advised the officers and staff of SCR to coordi-nate with Rail Tel corporation and also instructed the railway officials to chalk out the plans to extend the facility to all railway stations (except halt stations) over the zone within this current financial year as mentioned in the 100 days action plan given by Ministry of Railways.

At present on South Central Railway, a total of 207 stations have been provided with Wi-Fi facility which includes 36 major stations (A1 & A category) and 171 minor stations (B, C, D, E category). With this, Provision of free Wi-Fi is

successfully completed in all A1, A, B, C, D category stations & some of ‘E’ category stations. Provision of free high speed Wi-Fi is nearing completion in another 76 ‘E’ categorystations, while work is in fast progress for provision of the same in remaining stations i.e., 291 ‘E’ category stations over SCR. With this all stations of SCR (except ‘F’ category stations) will have free high speed Wi-Fi facility.

A user friendly high speed free Wi-Fi facility provided at railway stations across SCR network is ga-ining popularity day by day. In the month of May 2019, the total user logins were more than 10 lakh in 207 stations over SCR consuming more than 40 Terra bytes data. Sec-u nderabad Railway station registers highest number of user and data consumption in SCR and is in 4th position amongst 1600+ stations across India in terms of unique users. Apart from this, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Guntakal are some of the stations which recorded significantly high numbers of users. The numbers speak volume about the fact that despite of having easy access to mobile internet, public Wi-Fi is still a preferred choice of the Rail users while at railway stations.

Free Wi-Fi services to rail users are being provided under ‘Rail Wire’ brand- the retail Broadband initiative of Rail Tel. Designed to

offer the best Internet expe-rience to users, Rail Wire Wi-Fi is acce ssible by any user who has a smart phone with working mobile conne ction for KYC considerations. To use the Wi-Fi the user has to switch on the Wi-Fi mode in the smart phone and select the Rail Wire Wi-Fi network. Rail Wire homepage network automatically appears on the smart phone and prompts to enter mobile number. The user will get one-time

password (OTP) in form of SMS in the form of message box which has to be entered in the home page of Rail Wire. After entering OTP, users will be able to access high speed internet & can start internet browsing.

The free high speed Wi-Fi facility provided at small railway stations in rural areas is benefitting the outsiders apart from rail users. For instance the free high speed Wi-Fi facility provided at small remote railway station Gollapalli, in Telangana State of SCR jurisdiction is helping in enhancing the skills and knowledge of students studying in the Government school within the vicinity of station.

Usage statistics show significant pent up demand for connectivity, amongst train commuters in stations covered by the station Wi-Fi project who have used the service. With unconstrained, free high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity, an average user consumes 343 MB in an average 30-minute data session. This is much higher than what we observe on an average 3G connection in the country which is currently around 30MB per user per day. The efforts of Indian Railways in general and SCR in particular in extending the free High speed Wi-Fi facility at railway stations is being appre-ciated by all sections of the rail users.

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Modern Coach Factory, RaebareliA Report by PR Deptt., Modern Coach Factory

Workshop sheds, helps in lowering the temperature inside, hence saving power and creating a comfortable working enviro nment.• Another very innovative and sustainable initiative by the MCF is the piped day light, that captures the sunlight from roof top and pipes it down through reflective tubing and diffuser to the interior space, thus reducing the tempe rature and saving electricity.

About GreenCo• The GreenCo Rating System developed by M/s CII Godrej Green Building Council is “first of its kind in the World”.• GreenCo Rating is the holistic framework that evaluates com panies on the environmental fri end-liness of their activities using life cycle approach. Implementation of GreenCo rating provides leader ship and guidance to companies on how to make products, services and operations greener. Industry per sonnel are trained on the latest Green concepts and facilitated for implementing better systems and implementing global best practices in green.• The objective is to define and assess “How much Green any unit is?” and highlight the way forward to facilitate world class performance through Green strategies.• The assessment provides signi ficant value addition and direction to organizations in terms of Reso urce Conservation, Greener Value chain, superior ecological perform ance and an enhanced Green Image.

MCF Association with M/S CII-Godrej GBC• MCF got association of M/s CII Godrej Green Building Council for implementation of Green strategy to benchmark its sustainability per formance against various national and international standards.

• GreenCo concept is inherently built in infrastructural design of MCF itself. MCF sheds are designed to have natural light and ventilation.• Further use of insulated panels sandwiched with Polyurethane foam under Galvalume sheet clad ding in

• Exclusive 3 MW solar plant to cater almost day time power requirement of entire MCF factory and further being enhanced to 10 MW.

• MCF uses energy efficient LED lights to save electrical consumption.

• Most automated machineries with CNC and Robotic control, helps significant reduction in energy consumption and high productivity and quality.• Significant reduction in use of fresh water consumption per coach in last three years with improved process, productivity and by Implementation

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of zero discharge approach for water conservation.

MCF achieved GreenCo Platinum Rating• After implementing various energy, water saving

majors, drastic improvement in waste management system, material conservation, supply chain management, reduction in green house gases and other various project under GreenCo rating system, a detailed audit was got done by M/s CII Godrej Green Building Council assessment team in May 2019.• During assessment, it has been found that Modern Coach Factory, Lalganj; Raebareli has met all the requirements in accordance with GreenCo, Green Company Rating System and is being rated “GreenCo Platinum”, as per GreenCo Version 2.0 Guideline by M/S CII-Godrej GBC.• Modern Coach Factory, Raebareli also has the distinction of being the First GreenCo Platinum Rated Railway Unit, amongst Indian Railway’s production facilities and workshops.• Excellent leadership from the top, the commitment from the team to “Go Green” and the commendable efforts put in throughout the process is highly appreciated. There are several initiatives like Industry 4.0 implementation, Manufacturing of Smart Coaches, Multiple process innovations; taken by MCF, which are truly noteworthy noted by M/S CII-Godrej GBC .• Good work done by MCF, Raebareli will pave the way for establishing MCF, Raebareli as a global benchmark for Indian Railway’s Production facilities going green, thereby leaving an example for others to emulate.

Key Achievements(Related to GreenCo parameters in the last three years)1. Modern Coach Factory became 1st digital Factory

of Indian Railways with implementing of INDUSTRY 4.0 with real time monitoring of our equipment for improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness and

enhance availability with predictive maintenance.2. 64 % reduction in use of fresh water consumption

per coach in last three years achieved with improved process, productivity and by Impleme-ntation of zero discharge approach for water conservation.

3. There are 06 Nos. Rain water harvesting pit consi-sting 20 Nos bore well in workshop and 13 Nos Rain water harvesting pit consisting 64 Nos bore well in township with capacity 25 L/sec. per bore well.

4. The ETP water from Paint shop is 100 % recycled back in Paint booths.

5. Development of six artificial water bodies with approx. Capacity 60000 KL to collect surface runoff and use it to indirect recharge of ground water and irrigation of plantation and greeneries.

6. 53% reduction in specific Energy Consumption (electricity/coach) in last three years with improve productivity , use of energy efficient fittings, and process optimization.

7. MCF Raebareli have installed Indian Railway’s Biggest Solar Power Plant of Capacity 3 MW with Project Cost - 22.86Cr.

8. MCF has reduce 44% Per Coach Total CO2 Eq. Emission in last three years.

9. Due to elimination of garnet blasting 99% reduction in paint shop generated waste achieved.

10. Due to procurement of bigger assembly in returnable stand 60 % reduction in wood packing in, last three years achieved.

11. With use of e-tendering and other paperless system, there has been specific reduction of 54% in Paper consumption.

12. Product stewardship with Development of SMART COACH results predictive maintenance, infotainment and advanced passenger amenities, (passenger information and coach computing unit),

13. Introduction of BIO- Vacuum toilets for coaches will be saving almost 68 % of the water in flushing.

14. MCF developed new Painting process - Wet on Wet Painting reduced process time by half and thus able to produce 1425 coaches from shop capacity of 750 . Also stopping use of LPG will reduce CO2 emission.

15. MCF introduced CRF components in single piece, reducing the tolerances to ±2mm,Reducing welding joints 6-7 nos. Thus reducing welding to 35 % achieved . Thus reducing carbon emission, material conservation and improved resource utilization.

16. Process innovation with modification of spot welding fixture & Robotic programming with reversed direction resulted increased production from one sidewall to 2 sidewall/shift and elimination of Turning activity eliminate. cost saving 3 Lacs/day.

Short movie on Green initiative Effort in MCF:Pl use following You tube linkhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RgHLlvvmeug ¥

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Central Railway Registers an Increase of 21% in Ticket Checking Earnings in July-2019

Central Railway in its endeavor to provide better services to

bonafide rail users and also to curb the menace of ticketless travel, has regularly conducted intensive campaign against ticketless and irregular travel.

Senior Officers are closely monitoring the revenue loss due to ticketless travel and such other irregularities.

During the month of July-2019, Central Railway has earned ` 11.76 crore as against ` 9.72 crore in July-2018, thereby showing an increase of 21.00%.

During the month July-2019, 2.56 lakh cases of ticketless/irregular travel including un-booked luggage were detected as against 2.32 lakh cases in July-2018 thereby showing an increase of 10.34%.

During the period April 2019 to July-2019 a total of 14.57 lakh cases ticketless/irregular travel and un-booked luggage were detected as against 13.17 lakh cases in the corresponding period last year thereby showing an increase of 10.55%.

The earnings realized from such

ticketless / irregular travel during the period from April 2019 to July-2019 registered ` 78.74 crore as compared to earnings of ` 69.07 crore registered during the corresponding period of last year showing an increase of 14.00%

During the month of July-2019, 206 cases of transfer of reserved journey tickets were detected and ` 1.91 lakh recovered as penalty.

Central Railway appeals to the passengers to travel with proper and valid railway tickets in order to avoid inconvenience and travel with dignity. ¥

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East Coast Railway

Central Railway

ECoR Organised ZRUCC Meeting

The meeting of Zonal Rail Users’ Consultative Committee

(ZRUCC) was held on 19 August, 2019 at Rail Sadan, Chandra-sekharpur, Bhubaneswar under the Chairmanship of Shri Vidya Bhushan, General Manager, East Coast Railway.

Many distinguished members of ZRUCC including representatives of different Chambers of Commerce & Industry, PSUs, representatives of Passenger Associations, Consumer Associations, State Governments and other groups attended this meeting and presented their valuable opinions and suggestions.

Issues related to Passenger Am-enities & services, public demands

and other developmental activities, installation of Passenger Reser-vation System, Extension of trains, etc. were discussed during the meeting.

Principal heads of the Departments of East Coast Railway

including Addl. General Manager Shri Sudhir Kumar and Sr. DGM Shri H. K. Dutta were present in the meeting. Shri Ashoka Kumar Mishra, Secretary, ZRUCC and Dy. General Manager, ECoR co-ordinated the meeting. ¥

Northern Railway Honours Twelve Employees Through Safety Award

In keeping with the practice of honouring employees, whose ale-

rtness and prompt action have resulted in averting a possible ac-cident, through Safety Awards and as recognition of meritorious se-rvices, Northern Railway honoured the services of twelve of its em-ployees through Safety Awards at a ceremony held at Northern Railway

Headquarters Office, Baroda House, New Delhi on 6 August, 2019. The Awards were presented by Shri T.P. Singh, General Manager, Northern Railway. Also present on this oc-casion were Ms. Archana Joshi, Additional General Manager, North-ern Railway, Smt. Seema Kumar, Chief Safety Officer, Northern Railway and the Principal Heads of

all departments of Northern Railway.The twelve employees who were

felicitated by the General Manager for their services are:

Shri Rakesh Kumar/Station Master/New Aadarsh Nagar of Delhi Division, Shri Surendra Saini/Trackman/Fillaur of Firozpur Division, Shri Deepak Kumar/Loco Pilot/Firozpur of Firozpur Division,

Northern Railway

Shri Vidya Bhushan addressing the meeting



Shri Naseem/Keyman/Rudauli of Lucknow Division, Shri Shesh Ram/Porter/Dewarakot of Lucknow Division, Shri Ram Aasrey/Gateman/ Jaunpur of Lucknow Division, Shri Kumar Pal/Helper/TRD/Sitapur City of Moradabad Division, Shri Ranjay Kumar/Helper/TRD/Sitapur City of Moradabad Division, Shri Satendra/Kotewala/Dukheri of Ambala Division, Shri Pintoolal/Khalasi /Carriage & Wagon/Ambala

of Ambala Division, Shri Vipin Singh /M.C.M./Carriage & Wagon/Ambala of Ambala Division, Shri Ramesh /Gateman/Sarai Banjara of

Ambala Division. The meritorious contri butions of all the above named staff were highly appreciated by the General Manager. ¥


A high level safety review meeting by Railway Board

held at NCR HQ. At the outset Chief Safety Officer NCR Shri S. K. Kashyap welcomed Principal Executive Director Safety, Railway Board Shri Naresh Chandra Goyal and Shri Rajiv Chaudhry, General Manager, North Central Railway by pre senting them plants. Chief Safety Officer made a pre sentation on safety statistics of NCR viz a viz last year. All 4 con-sequential acci dent cases of NCR were discussed in detail and all aspects like cause, responsibility, recomme ndation to avoid such cases in future were covered.

CSO presented that seven safety drives were launched in current year by NCR to counsel staff and improve upon systems to achieve target of zero accident. Two important areas i.e. Fire cases in power cars of LHB trains and Signal passing at danger prevention means were discussed in great detail. Shri Chaudhry emphasised that besides existing fire detection cum suppression system, efforts must also be made to incorporate auto fire suppression systems.

A High Level Safety Review Meeting by Railway Board Held at NCR HQ

CSO suggested that clean gas based fire extinguisher needs to be installed in coaches. Innovations done by NCR to reduce SPAD were also presented. Unique efforts like Gross Happiness Index which allows crew to rate running rooms on scale of 1 to 10, online web based Loco inspector inspection and crew rating system, 25 monitoring list of important items etc were presented.

Physical demo of DUET, a droid with remote operation and view ing facility was presented which is developed by Agra Division for under gear examination of trains. Further first ever Hot box detector and Hanging part detection system installed by Allahabad Division near Chunar station were presented to RB team consisting of PED S/Shri

Goyal, Shri T P Agrawal, and Shri Vinay Kumar Nama. GM said that NCR should process for patent of DUET.

On this occasion a safety application “Smart Application for Ensuring Train Safety - Safety” was also launched. This comprehensive web based application will help in better

monitoring of safety related parameters, reporting of unusual etc. thus improved safety in train operation. This app available in google play store allows anyone to send any hazard, unsafe condition with geotagged photograph so as corrective action is taken immediately. Shri Goyal suggested that app should have more video, animation content related to safety to make it more user friendly. Meeting was attended by all PHODs of NCR , CHODs of NCR and Sr DSOs from division. While talking about the support from Railway Board, CSO requested that trains coming from outside with open doors needs to be controlled and he also requested for early finalization of three pending enquires with CRS and NIA. ¥

Shri Rajeev Chaudhary Launching Safety Application Smart Application for Ensuring

Train Safety

Shri T.P. Singh along with the awardees and officers

Workshop on Data Analytics Held in NCR HQ

On 15 July, 2019 a workshop on Data Analytics was held in NCR

HQ Subedarganj. This workshop chaired by GM, NCR, Shri Rajiv Chaudhry was attended by all PHODs of NCR and other senior officers from HQ and ALD Division.

At the outset DGM/G, Shri Anshoo Pandey welcomed two eminent speakers of this workshop from MNIT Prayagraj, Dr. Anil Kumar Singh and Dr. Mayank Pandey.

Dr. Anil Kumar Singh has obtained his PhD degree from IIT

Roorkee and M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from MNNIT, Allahabad. Currently wo-rking as Professor in the Depart-ment of CSE, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India, and is also Head of the



Department. He has also been associated with the project for simulating the movement of crowd of pilgrims during Kumbh 2019 at Prayagraj, awarded by North Central Railway (NCR), and is also providing consultancy to Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India on Video Analytics based Crowd Mana-gement. The other speaker Dr. Mayank Pandey obtained his MTech from IIT Kharagpur and PhD degree from MNNIT/Allahabad. He is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of CSE, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India.

In his address Shri Rajiv Chaudhry high lighted importance of using data analytical tools in decision making in all field of

working. Shri Chaudhry also sug-gested that railway is a large source of data and MNIT students can associate in data analysis projects with railway which will be beneficial to railways and great learning experience for students .

Both speakers presented in detail about different type of data, their analysis tools available and latest developments in this field.

Theme of workshop was Big data which is high in volume, fast, info rmation on assets and pro-cessing of information to get cost effective solutions. As per an approximation 175 Zera Bites of information shall be available globaly by 2025 and unless correct analysis of available data is done, de cision making shall not be precise. Railways uses data analysis in almost all field like train ope-ration, reservations, main tenance, projects execution etc.

This work shop was aimed towards improving skills as how to make our data ana lysis more useful to provide better services to passe-ngers with same resources as well as to understand needs for future development. ¥

Shri Rajiv Chaudhry addressing Workshop organised on data analytics

Review Meeting through Video Conference Held in NCR HQ

On 13 August, 2019, a review meeting with divisions chaired

by General Manager, North Central Railway, Shri Rajiv Chaudhry held through video conference. Meeting was attended by all the Principal Heads of Departments, while Divisional Railway Managers and team of branch officers from all three divisions joined through video link. At the outset General Manager complemented all three division for achieving best ever punctuality in last 5 years on 12 August, 2019 and stressed to keep on striving to improve running of trains.

During the meeting need for use of technology in counseling of front line safety staff was felt and General Manager advised divisions and those in Headquarter to suggest technological tools to ensure counseling with provision of assessment of counseled staff. Work of non Interlocking at Tundla yard was discussed in detail,

General Manager directed that all requisite me-asures to complete this work in time must be taken. Many important issues related to safety, punctuality and infrastructure development were discussed in the video conference. General Manager expressed satisfaction on position of reply on references from MPs & MLAs and directed all concerned for timely reply of reference from public representatives.

Before video conference a demonstration on different type of fire extinguishers was arranged at Head quarter Subedarganj attended by General Manager Shri Rajiv Chaudhry and Principal Heads of all Dep artments of NCR. In the demonstration different designs of fire ex tinguisher - powder, water mist, clear gas etc were dem-

onstrated and its actual efficacy tested on controlled fire created at site. Advantages /limitations of different design of fire extinguishers were also explained.

North Central Railway is mulling over many improved option of fire extinguishers so as additional layer of safety is provided over already laid down norms of fire protection for coaches, station, service buildings etc. NCR is already in process of providing fire alarm system for its entire fleet of AC coaches and cover all Non AC coaches with fire extinguishers. ¥

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 17 August, 2019 by train number 14056 (Brahmaputra

Mail). Window-trailing inspection is a specialized inspection in the Indian Railways in which the track

View of the Video Conference



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 pro-vided 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 Chheokimela passenger enclosure extension plan to connect Platform Number-1 should be executed quickly.

Shri Rajiv Chaudhry considering the high 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 that division 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 deve-lo pment 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. ¥

On 10 July, 2019 General Manager/NCR, while

appreciating excellent performance of Loco Pilots of all the three divisions of North Central Railway in the field of electrical energy regeneration in 3-phase electric locos running over NCR has sanctioned individual cash award for 9 of them.

It is worth mentioning that 3-phase Locomotives have a unique useful facility of converting mechanical energy of the trains into electrical energy during braking which otherwise would have gone wasted. Loco Pilots have been encouraged to maximise use

Energy Conservation by Way of Energy Regeneration in 3-Phase Electric Locos by the Loco Pilots of NCR

of this facility available in these locomotives. As a result, energy regeneration to the tune of 14.6% of total energy consumed by these locomotives has been achieved over NCR. A record saving of about 2.0 crore units of energy by way of energy regeneration has been achieved during 2019-20 (May to

June) over NCR which is Highest over Indian Railways.

Principal Chief Electrical Engineer, NCR Shri Raj Narayan, while facilitating these 9 Loco Pilots stated that such efforts will continue in future also to encourage energy efficient train

operation which not only saves Railway revenue but also contributes towards protection & conservation of our environment.

Shri Anupam Singhal, Chief Electrical Locomotive Engineer along with other electrical officers & staff was present on the occasion. ¥

Shri Raj Narayan along with felicitated loco pilots for electrical energy regeneration in 3-phase locomotive

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Twelve Railway Staff Awarded for Exceptional Devotion Towards Duty

Twelve railway staff namely Birendra

Kumar Shivam, Helper/C&W/New Jal-paiguri, Mukesh Kumar, Station Ma-nager / Kumedpur, Vijay Kumar Rai, Track Maintainer/New Jal-paiguri, Baleshwar Sahani, Track Main-tainer/New Jal paiguri, Ashoke Kumar Murmu, Driver/Alipurduar Jn, Nitai Sarkar, Station M a n a g e r / M u j n a i ,

Tribhuban Narzary, Driver/New Bongaigaon, Rakesh Kumar, Asst. Driver/New Bongaigaon, Rupjyoti Saikia, Driver/Rangapara, Md. Muglay Azam, Asst. Driver/Rangapara, Prasanta Ghosh, Driver /Lumding, G.K. Shrivastava, Asst. Driver / Lumding were awarded by General Manager, N.F. Railway for showing alertness and exceptional devotion towards duty. In reco-gnition of their meritorious service all of them were awarded with a cash award of ` 3, 000 each along with a certificate issued by the General Manager, N.F. Railway. ¥

Shri Sanjive Roy felicitating the staff during award distribution

NFR Personnel Shines in the KWFA 2nd Asia Kung-Fu-Wushu Championship

Shri Mantu Baruah, N.F. Railway employee working under Senior

Section Engineer (P-Way), Rangiya under Rangiya Division of N.F. Railway bagged Gold medal in KWFA 2nd Asia Kung-Fu- Wushu Championship, 2019-20 recently held at Dhaka, Bangladesh from 11 to 13 July, 2019 orga nised by Kung-Fu-Wushu Asso ciation, Bangladesh under auspices of Kung-Fu-Wushu Federation of Asia and IKWF.

He won Gold medal contesting in the 75 to 80 category kg in fight

Federation in the year 2015. Earlier, Shri Mantu Baruah won

Gold medal in 6th National Kung-Fu Cham pio nship, 2012 held at Lucknow taking part in Light Sanda event in 60-65 kg category.

He also contested in the fight event in Indo-Bhutan Kung-Fu-Wushu Champi onship, 2016 and KWAI 14th National Kung-Fu-Wushu Cham pionship, 2017-18 and achieved Gold medals.

Moreover, he took part in many martial art competitions as player and as coach. ¥

event. Shri Mantu Baruah was awarded rank of Black Belt 1st Dan certificate by Assam Kung-Fu

Shri Sanjive Roy felicitating Shri Mantu Baruah at Maligaon Hq.

67 th All Indian Railway Table Tennis Championship Held

The 67th All Indian Railway Table Tennis Championship was

inaugurated by the General Manager / N.F. Railway Shri Sanjive Roy at the NFRSA Indoor Stadium, Maligaon on 3 July, 2019. While welcoming all the participants, General Manager hoped that such All India events would help in further sharpening the skills of players so that they could excel in International competitions. A total of 14 teams representing different zones of Indian Railways comprising of 116 sports persons participated in the meet.

In the team events, South Eastern

aim to promote sports. Many reputed National and

International players participated in this tournament. ¥

Railway emerged Champion in Men’s category and Northeast Frontier Railway emerged Champion in Women’s category. In the Men’s singles, Anirban Nandi of South Eastern Railway and in the Women’s singles, Shruti Amrute of Central Railway won the Gold.

It may be mentioned here that, NFRSA (N. F. Railway Sports Association), Maligaon under active support from the RSPB (Railway Sports Promotion Board), New Delhi has been organising various such All India Tourna ments in various discipline with an

Shri Sanjive Roy is seen along with the players

Northeast Frontier Railway




Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, South Central Railway

called on Shri S.K. Joshi, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Telangana at Secretariat, Hyderabad.

Shri Vijay Agarwal, Chief Ad-ministrative Officer (Con struction), Shri N.S.R Prasad, Divisional Railway Manager, Hyderabad Division and Senior Officials acco-

Meeting with Chief Secretary of Telangana State

Shri Gajanan Mallya is seen with Shri S.K. Joshi

mpanied the General Manager. The discussions centered on various rail developmental issues per-taining to the State.

Shri Gajanan Mallya com-prehensively discussed on the progress of various ongoing and new Railway projects in Telangana during the meeting with Chief Secretary, Telangana. ¥

SCR Apprehended 4012 Persons for Littering - Over ` 8 lakh Realized as Penalty

South Central Railway has been taken the issue of providing

clean and hygienic conditions both in trains as well as at stations on top priority. In this process on Board Housekeeping services are provided in all the important trains, at stations dustbins are provided at every possible place where littering is likely to take place. Frequent announcements are made soliciting public cooperation in maintaining hygiene and cleanliness at station premises at regular interval thro-ugh public addressed system.

On the principle of ‘Spoiler pays’ South Central Railway has apprehended 4012 persons who have affected the cleanliness at station as well as in trains and realized an amount of ` 8,02,400 in the first quarter of the current financial year from April to June on South Central Railway Zone. Secunderabad Division fined 1248 persons and realized an amount of ` 2,49,600 and Vijayawada Division fined 674 persons and realized an amount of ` 1,34, 800 and Guntakal Division fined 528 persons and

realized an amount of ` 1,05,600 and Hyderabad Division fined 824 persons and realized an amount of ` 1,64,800 and Guntur Division fined 167 persons and realized an amount of ` 33,400 and Nanded Division fined 571 persons and realized ` 1,14,200. Acting on the directives of the Minister of Railways who has accorded highest priority for cleanliness of the railway stations and trains on Indian Railways, SCR has made initiatives to prevent activities affecting cleanliness. ¥

No Compromise on Safety during Flood Situations, Observe all Precautions while Running the Trains

Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, South Central Railway

stre ssed upon the policy of no co-mpromise on Safety and advised the officials to take all precautions for safe running of the trains during the current monsoon season. He ad vised all the DRMs to intensify the patrolling at bridges, tunnels and tanks and vulnerable areas to avoid any unusual occu rrences du-ring a detailed review meeting on Safety and Punctuality on 13 August, 2019 at Rail Nilayam, Secunderabad along with Principal Heads of De-partments and Divisional Railway Manager’s of all six Divisions i.e. Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Vijaya-wada, Guntakal, Guntur and Nanded through video conference.

Shri Gajanan Mallya reviewed signal and engineering failures du-

ring the current monsoon season. On the Punctuality aspect, he ad-vised all the Divisional Railway Managers to monitor it personally and draw an action to reduce the failures and plan to attain best punctuality duly ensuring safe working. He also reviewed freight loading performance of the zone. He instructed all the officials to inspect the Breakdown Vehicles as per their schedule in order to be

prepared for any disaster. He also advised all the Divisional

Railway Ma na gers to draw an action plan for celebration of 150th Birth Anni versary of Father of Nation Mahatma Gan dhi. He in stru-cted on Provision of posters, murals on the life and achievements of Mahatma Gandhi at all the im-portant stations, trains, deve-lopment of nurseries, plantation of saplings and Swacchta Pakwada programmes.

Illumination of Railway stations on par with Airports

Shri Gajanan Mallya directed the officials to initiate action plan for providing illumination of Railway stations on par with the standards maintained by Airports as per the direction of Railway Board. ¥

Shri Gajanan Mallya taking a meeting on safety



64th DRUCC Meeting Held at Hyderabad Division

64th Divisional Railway Users Consultative

Committee Meeting (DRUCC) of Hyderabad Division, South Central Railway held on 19 July, 2019 at Divisional Railway Manager’s Conference Hall, Hyderabad Bhavan, Secunderabad chaired by Shri N.S.R. Prasad, Chairman & Divisional Railway Manager, Hyderabad Division. Shri Hem Singh Banoth, Additional Divisional Railway Manager/Operations, Shri P.V. Sai Prasad, Additional Divisional Railway Manager/Infra, Shri Venkanna. B. Secretary & Senior Divisional Commercial Manager and other Branch Officers of Hyderabad Division were present in the meeting. This is the Fourth meeting of the current Committee.

Shri N.S.R. Prasad, highlighted the financial performance of the division for the financial year 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 (till June‘19) and various development activities and passenger amenities/facilities taken up over the Division were appraised to the Members.

Shri Venkanna gave a detailed presentation on the division’s over all profile followed by updated information regarding passenger amenities completed such as exte-nsion of cover over sheds, extension

highlighted to the Members and requested them to spread the message to the rail users to avoid long queues at booking co unters and also save paper apart from 5% dis count on tickets. A poster was un-veiled by Divi sional Railway Manager and officers along

with the Members seeking the co-operation of Senior citizens to opt for giving up 50% or 100% concession facility. The Members expressed their ha ppiness over the develop mental acti vities under-taken by the divi sion and appreciated the efforts made for meeting most of their earlier demands and getting various works sanctioned.

They repre sented for change in timings of DEMU trains on Malkajgiri - Bolarum section, introduction of new Duronto/Garibrath trains, incre asing the frequency of non-daily trains, providing additional sto ppage of trains, extension of trains and various other issues. The Chairman assured the Members that their suggestions/represe ntations would be examined meti cu lously duly following the guide lines/norms in force, keeping the demand from the passengers in view and action would be taken acco rdingly. ¥

SCR Targets to Achieve 128 Million Tonnes of Freight Loading

South Central Railway has recorded highest ever freight

loading of 122.6 Million Tonnes during the previous financial year 2018-19 and targets to achieve 128 million tonnes during the current financial year, said Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, SCR. He participated and held discussions with the important freight customers in a meeting to discuss on the advantages of using the new line between Obulavaripalle and Krish na patnam. Authorities from Krish napatnam port, Jindal steel, repre sentatives from various Cement, Power and Fertilizers have

attended the meeting.The General Manager empha-

sized on the advantage of using new line for discharging the cargo from the Krishnapatnam port to hinterland industrial areas of cement clusters located around Eraguntla area and Jindal steel plant near Bellary. Various custo-mers like Jindal, Ultratech have

expressed keen interest in taking maximum benefits from the new line. Jindal steel informed that they have a plan in doubling the production of steel in next five years for which the new line will be very useful.

General Manager also reviewed the freight perfo rmance of Krishna-patnam port in the last year and

View of the meeting

of platforms, provision of Train in-dication/Coach indication boards, RO plants, water coolers, toilets for Divyangjan etc. He also briefed on works in progress over the division at important stations such as pro-vision of Baggage scanners, exten-sion of platforms, provision/exten-sion of FOBs, imp rovement to water supply arr angements, cover over platforms for full length, redeve-lopment of Kurnool city station, pr-o vision of lifts, conversion of plat-forms to high level, TIBs at stations apart from various infra structure faci lities at MMTS Phase-II stations.

Various inno vative ideas intro-duced for increasing the Non fare revenue earnings such as provision of ‘Health Check up Kiosk’, ‘SBI- Kiosk’, Parking space for Green Autos (e-Autos) at Kacheguda and Umdanagar and provision of ‘Pearl Shop’ etc. were also projected. Fitment of Bio Toilets in coaches over this division was app raised. The use of “Mobile UTS app” was

View of the DRUCC meeting



Digha Station Acquires Coveted ISO 14001 : 2015 Certification for ECO-Smart Station


Digha Railway Station of South Eastern

Railway has been certified as ISO 14001:2015 for the scope of providing passenger ame nities in clean and green envi-ronment including sanitation thro ughout the railway station premises.

The Railway Board has identified 37 major stations across the cou-ntry to be developed as 'Eco smart' stations and Digha Railway Station is one of them.

The efforts to attain ISO certification were made possible by close coordination of different depa rt ments ensuring an Enviro-nment Management System was set in place with tasks to make the st-

Digha station is conferred with ISO 14001:2015 Certified Eco-Smart station

ation premises in compliance with international norms com pleted in swift manner.

Various initiatives included se-tting up a waste management cell, declaring the premises a 'no plastic' zone, a new mechanised cleaning contract for the premises with waste segregation and disposal

with help of municipal authorities, water and energy audits, public meet ings for sug-gestions and awareness, eme rgency prepared-ness and mockdrills and a grievance redressal system through the newly launched website of the station. Further impro vements in the pipeline include plan-

tation of trees in an area of 15,000 sq feet with help of forest depart-ment next to station area, setting up of new bio-toilets and conversion of existing toilets into eco-friendly ones, a Combined Treatment Plant (CTP) for treatment of water among others. These are expected to be co-mpleted by the last week of July. ¥

Western Railway

Japanese Delegation Visits Western Railway's Ahmedabad Division

In a joint meeting on 18 July, 2019, held at Divisional Railway

Manager’s Office of Western Railway at Ahmedabad, three del-egates from the Japanese company Sanken Kogyo Corporation Pvt. Ltd. and a team of Indian Port Rail & Ropeway Corporation Ltd. partici-pated in various activities. A presentation on ‘Track Maintenance on Indian Railways’ was shown to the delegation and the divisional officers. The delegation also visited to observe the track maintenance site at Sabarmati PWay Depot and Khodiyar Yard. The delegates took keen understanding of the track maintenance system and its

modalities by Indian Railways. It is worth mentioning that the High Speed Rail Project between Mumbai and Ahmedabadis presently under progress. The meeting was organised to understand in depth the key aspects of the proposed High Speed Rail Project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, especially

how the track maintenance system being operated by the Indian Railways. Shri Fateh Singh Meena and Shri Parimal Shinde, Addl. Divisional Railway Managers of Ahmedabad Division welcomed the Japanese delegation. During the visit by the 3-member Japanese delegation, Shri Vinod Kumar, Chief General Manager of Indian Port and Rail & Ropeway Corporation, Shri Z.H. Siddiqui, GM (Signal & IT) from IPRRC, Shri A.K. Tiwari, AGM Project, Ahmedabad from IPRRC and Shri Vikas Gadhwal and Shri Ramesh Tolani officers from the Engineering Department were also present. ¥

Japanese delegation in a joint meeting with Indian Port Rail & Ropeway

Corporation Ltd

freight performance of the zone during 1st quarter of this year. He ex pressed concern over the slow growth in freight loading in the first quarter and hope that the new line

will give the much-needed boost to improve loading in the rest of the year. Shri K. Siva Prasad, Principal Chief Operations Manager, SCR; Shri John Prasad, Principal Chief

Commercial Manager, SCR; P. Sree-nivas, Divisional Railway Manager, Vijayawada Division; Shri B. Nagya, Chief Freight Traffic Manager were present during the meeting. ¥

Corrigendum : Focus issue of ‘Samastipur Division’, which was featured in August 2019 issue of Indian Railways magazine, has been mistakenly attributed to ‘Sambalpur Division’ on the content page. The error is regretted. -Editor



Metro Railway

New Metro Services from 1 July, 2019

With a view to provide more benefits to the commuters,

Metro Railway has introduced more services on Saturdays and Sundays from 1 July, 2019.zz Now on Sundays, Metro services

are available from 9:00 hrs. instead of 9:50 hrs. from both Dumdum and Kavi Subhash.

zz 124 services (62 UP + 62 DN) are available on Sundays instead of previous 110 services.zz 236 services (118 UP + 118 DN)

are now available on Saturdays instead of 224 services. zz On Weekdays, Metro is providing

107 services (54 UP + 53 DN) to and from Noapara instead of

previous 104 services (52UP + 52 DN), 81 services (41 UP + 40 DN) to and from Noapara on Saturdays instead of previous 74 services (37UP + 37 DN), 61 services (31 UP + 30 DN) to and from Noapara on Sundays instead of previous 52 services (26 UP + 26 DN). ¥

Free Health Check-Up Camps Organised for Metro Commuters at All Metro Stations

On the occasion of Dr. B. C. Roy’s birthday observed as Doctor’s

Day, Metro Railway in association with Rotary International District 3291 organised Free Health Check-Up Camps at all the 24 Metro stations for its commuters on 1 July, 2019.

Doctors of reputed City Hospitals were present in these camps and

checked Blood Sugar, Blood pressure, Body Mass Index (BMI), Eye and general health of commuters in these camps.

Awareness posters on Thalassemia drawn by school children for making commuters aware of this deadly disease and its prevention were on display at Park Street Station. ¥

Western Railway’s Jagjivan Ram Hospital Performed a High Risk ASD Procedure to Avoid Open Heart Surgery in a Child

Western Railway's Jagjivan Ram Hospital is leaving no

stone unturned in its efforts to offer timely &lifesaving procedures to its patients. There have been several instances where, because of dedi-cated efforts by the team of doctors & specialists, JRH has successfully managed various complicated and extremely difficult cases with high mortality & morbidity. In another such instance, for the first time in the history of Western Railway’s Jagjivan Ram Hospital, a rare and complicated congenital cardiac intervention was done in a 9-year old child. The team of doctors opted for this procedure after doing a detailed evaluation. The child Master Abhay Raj Kumar Ram was suffering from a big hole in the inte-ratrial septum, medically known as Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) for which he was suffering from repeated re-spiratory tract infection and pal-pitations sincechildhood. He was thoroughly evaluated by cardio-logist Dr. Shishir Kumar Roul at

Jagjivan Ram Hospital who found that the child had a big ASD with dilation of right side of heart and pul monary arteries. The doctors had two options with them, one was surgically and another was device closure. The Percutaneous Device Closure procedure was con-si dered better over surgical, even though seeing the difficulty in the case looking at his age and the ana-tomy of the lesion. The decision to go ahead with the procedure was established after detailed evalu-ation. On 20 July, 2019, a very high risk Percutaneous ASD device

closure procedure was performed under general anesthesia with 14 mm septal occluder successfully by cardiologists Dr. Milind Phadke, Dr. M.V. Reddy, Dr. Shishir Kumar Roul, Anaesthesiologist Dr. Subhranshu Kumar and the cardiac team in CVTS department under the valu able gui-dance of Dr. Vilas Gunda-Principal Chief Medical Director of Western Rly., Dr. Hafeezunnisa-Medical Director of Jagjivan Ram Hospital. The child is stable, the post-proce-dure echocardiogram (echo) showed normal and the child was discharged on 22 July, 2019. ¥

A view of the team of doctors performing the procedure

View of the Camp



Inauguration of e-Office Working at RDSO

RDSO has introduced e-office system for dealing with offi cial

working. The imple mentation of e-office will in troduce more efficiency, account ability and transparency in the office working. The intro duction of e-office was initiated by Shri Virendra Kumar, Director General, RDSO for use in all the directorates of RDSO. The system has been implemented as a part of digital initiatives taken by the Indian Railways and will promote green way of working, substantially reduce the cons-umption of paper and result in significant cost savings. It is a bid to ensure all files on e-office can move seamlessly across offices.

e-Office offers an environment of continuous process improvement by digitally facilitating tracking and monitoring. This results in identifying issues or bottlenecks in the processes, thereby, enabling better functioning of any directorate.

During the inauguration, Director General, RDSO congra-tulated the team of RDSO and

RailTel for completing all the preparations for commencement of e-office. He advised all senior officers to use e-office and to promote use of this digital platform by all other officers and staff as well. Shri Dipu Shyam, GM/RailTel/Lucknow made a live demo of the e-office system on this occasion.Inauguration of e-office working at RDSO.

RDSO has introduced e-office system for dealing with official working. The implementation of e-office will introduce more efficiency, accountability and transparency in the office working. The introduction of e-office was initiated by Shri Virendra Kumar

Director General, RDSO for use in all the directorates of RDSO. The system has been implemented as a part of digital initiatives taken by the Indian Railways and will promote green way of working, sub stantially reduce the consu-mption of paper and result in significant cost savings. It is a bid to ensure all files on e-office can move seamlessly across offices. e-office offers an environment of continuous process improvement by digitally facilitating tracking and monitoring. This results in identifying issues or bottlenecks in the processes, thereby, enabling better functioning of any dire ctorate.

During the inauguration, Director General, RDSO congra-tulated the team of RDSO and RailTel for completing all the pre-parations for commencement of e- office. He advised all senior officers to use e-office and to promote use of this digital platform by all other officers and staff as well. Shri Dipu Shyam, GM/RailTel/Lucknow made a live demo of the e-office system on this occasion. ¥

Shri Virendra Kumar addressing at the implementation of e-Office

RDSO

“Save Water’’ Campaign Conducted

Among Metro Commuters

A “Save Water” campaign was conducted on 4 July at Kalighat

station to make Metro co m muters aware about the evils of wastage of water and its consequent crisis. Officers and staff of RPF Kalighat Post as well as station staff with the help of colourful ban ners and posters conducted this ca mpaign and requested Metro com muters to make efforts to save water. ¥

Metro Staff Helped an Ailing Lady Travelling with a Six-Month Old

Baby Commuter

On 9 July, 2019 at around 18.22 hrs, a lady commuter suddenly

started feeling unwell in a Dum Dum bound Metro. She was about to de-board at Gitanjali Station. Immediately after receiving the message from the Motorman, the Central Control alerted the Station Superintendent of Gitnajali Station.

The Station Superintendent along with other staff immediately rushed to the UP platform with a wheelchair to help her and provided all assistance to stabilize her and her six–month old baby. Thereafter, she was sent to Tapan Sinha Me-morial Hospital of Metro Railway. She was released from the hospital after preliminary treatment. ¥

First Convex Mirror Installed at

Park Street Station

The first set of convex mirror has been installed at the driving

Motorman’s end on both UP and DN platforms of Park Street Metro Station on 24 July, 2019. This mir ror will enable the driving Motor man of a Metro to see the boarding of co-mmuters in the first four coaches before starting the Metro. The con-ducting Motorman will ob serve the boarding of passengers in the last four coaches from his cab. Similar mirrors will be installed in all the 24 Metro stations within a month. ¥

View of the campaign



Inauguration of Vendor Lounge at RDSO

As directed by CRB, during his visit to RDSO

on 16 March, 2019, vendor lounge has been com-missioned on 30 May, 2019 on the ground floor of Abhikalp Bhawan of RDSO as per the com mitment given to Railway Board. The basic objective of this vendor lounge is to provide opportunity to various firms at one place to solve their queries and to provide information of various aspects raised in this direction by RDSO so that the representative of the firms may be well aware of the functioning of different directorates of RDSO. Proper mechanism to

provide a single point window for appo intment with PEDs/EDs has also been started from 17 June, 2019. An online vendor appoi-ntment portal has been put in place for quick redressal of their queries. All registration are being done online only. This has resulted in

reduction of registration of vendor time from 725 to 134 days.

Vendor Lounge is equipped with modern facilities such as internet services, photo copier machine, coffee dis pensing machine, refri gerator, comfortable sofa’s and modular fur niture’s, LED

TV etc. A receptionist will be available in vendor lounge who will work as single point coordinator for fixing appointment with PEDs/EDs. Now all industry visitors coming to RDSO will have a good time to relax and do their routine work. ¥

The Central Board of Railway Research (CBRR) consists

of DG/RDSO as Chairman and Addl. Member (Civil Engineering), Addl. Member/Mechanical, Addl. Member/Signal, Addl. Member/Electrical, Addl. Member/ Traffic, Advisor/Finance, Executive Director/E&R, Executive Director/Planning of Railway Board Members, Additional Director Generals, the Member Secretary of CBRR. CBRR also consists of eminent Scientists, technologists, engineers and senior executives of Research Organisations, Academic Institutions and Industrial units related to Railway technology and ma t e-rials. The functions of CBRR are: zz To consider and recommend the

program of research of IR.zz To review the research program

from time to time.zz To ensure coordi nation and

assistance from other research

48th Meeting of Central Board of Railway Research (CBRR) Held at RDSO

laboratories.zz To review the ongoing projects.

48th Meeting of Central Board of Railway Research (CBRR) was held on 9 July, 2019 at RDSO, Lucknow, in which Addl. Member, Civil, Shri Rakesh Goyal, Addl. Member, Mech. Shri Anil Kumar Agarwal, Addl.Member, Electrical Ms. Manju Gupta, Addl. Member, Traffic Shri Anurag, Addl. Member, Signal Shri Rajeev Sharma & Principal Executive Directors/ Executive Directors of Railway Board and other senior officers of RDSO have attended the meeting. Director General, RDSO Shri Virendra Kumar has chaired the meeting. Professors and Scientists from IIT/Kanpur, IIT/Kharagpur, IIT/Roorkee, IIT/Madras, IIT/BHU, DRDO, SAIL, BHEL, BEL and industry head from SIEMENS and HARSCO have also participated in this meeting. On the onset of the meeting, Director

General/ RDSO welcomed the participants and gave intro ductory address giving brief of the projects being carried out by RDSO. A presentation was made by Shri S.K. Singh, Executive Director (Research) in which brief of the RDSO & various safety related projects being taken up by RDSO and new projects proposed to be undertaken by Indian Railways were discussed. Addl. Members of Railway Board have appreciated the work done by RDSO and emphasized to take with Academia and indu stries new safety related projects like Condition of Monitoring of Assets, OHE Monitoring, Fog Vision, Reduction in Rail Fractures, Rail Joint Fractures, broken Rail Detection System, Use of Artificial Intelligence, Improvement in the design of LHB wheel, Fire detection and separation System, Increase Axle Load and speeds of freight trains etc. The delegates from DRDO, SAIL, BHEL, BEL, IITs and industries also gave presentation of the new techno-logies related to the Railways and intend to initiate joint R&D in collaboration with RDSO. This CBRR meeting was held after long time. Last one was held in 2014. ¥

DG, RDSO with Railway Officiers and other dignitaries

Vendor Lounge



Rail Wheel Factory

RWF Achieves Quantum Jump in Production

The production of wheel sets in the first quarter of 2019-20 has

gone up significantly by 109% from 6151 wheel sets in April-June 2018 to 12838 in April to June 2019. Average wheel sets assembled per day has gone up from 88 in April 2018 to 176 in April 2019. Cast wheels and forged axles production has also increased by 11% and 8% respectively.

RWF has achieved best ever daily out turn of 402 wheel sets assembly on 11 June, 2019.

RWF has developed cast wheels approved by RDSO for use in

RWF wheels introduced in Kolkata Metro service

Kolkata Metro. The coaches fitted with RWF cast wheels were manufactured at Integral Coach

Factory, Perambur. The wheels have been now put into service after vigorous. ¥

Blood Donation Camp Held at Oak Grove School

Railway School

Indian Medical Association, Dehradun held a blood donation

camp at Oak Grove School on On 18 July, 2019.The blood donation camp was inaugurated jointly by Shri J.P Pandey, Principal, Oak Grove School and Dr. Heena Dhobal, Additional Divsional Medical Officer, Oak Grove School hospital, Jharipani. In the blood donation camp 51 persons of teaching and non teaching staff registered themselves to donate blood. Speaking on the occasion Shri J.P. Pandey, Principal Oak Grove School stated that IMA Blood Bank of Uttarakhand is a non profit organi zation with a world class infra structure, using Bar codes, robotic machines and fully integrated ERP software.

He further added that IMA Blood Bank of Uttarakhand has a mission that no needy patient should ever die due to lack of safe and quality blood in Dehradun and its surro-unding areas. Therefore, we went one step ahead and held a blood donation camp in the school pre-mises to save the lives of needy persons. Dr. Heena Dhobal, A.

D.M.O, Oak Grove Railway Health unit said that the blood can be donated by any volunteer, a person from among us, who makes the choice to donate blood. When you donate blood, you join a very select group, currently only 0.8 out of every 100 people in India donate blood. You have the power to make a difference in someone's life. All you have to do is to make a contribution. Every donation helps to save 3-4 lives, your contribution can help bring comfort to those in need. Dr. Swati Nagjot, Medical Officer, IMA, Dehradun said that IMA Blood Bank provides free

blood com ponents to poor patients, Thalasse mics, Hemophiliacs and to people suffering from sickle cell diseases, besides providing many more subsidies. On an average, the Blood Bank issues free Blood Components worth ` 15,000 on a daily basis. She further added that during blood donation camp near about 4000 unit of blood unit collected per month from the different college of Dehradun. Ms. Bharti Sharma, Promoter and teacher of Indian Medical Asso-ciation, tells about the importance of blood donation by a healthy person. ¥

View of Blood Donation Camp

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Indian Railways50 September 2019Indian Railways50 September 2019

Current ScenarioIndia is among the world’s most

water-stressed countries. In 1950, India had 3,000–4,000 cubic meters of water per person. Today, this has fallen to around 1,000 cubic meters, largely due to population growth. China, by contrast, has twice the amount of water per person- about 2,000 cubic meters. Growing com-petition over finite water resources, compounded by climate change, will have serious implications for India’s food security, as well as for the livelihoods of its farmers and for the country’s economic deve-lopment. Water resources not evenly distributed. In some parts there is flood and in some parts there is drought.

What is predictable future in this area if no action is taken to conserve water

If no action is taken for Water preservation, there will be Water famine. Already some part of the country is facing Water scarcity. Crop failures coupled with Water scarcity is accelerating starving of people and has an adverse impact on Economy. Water is life and if there is no water then it will be a war like situation.

Sources of WaterAmongst most of the water, 97%

is found in oceans and seas. The remaining, about 3% is found in

rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, etc. Air also contains water.

Boondh - The DropletV. Prakash

Jt. Director (A/cs.), Railway Board

How to Conserve Waterzz Emphasis should be on multiple

use of same Water;zz Use of efficient watering systems

such as drip irrigation and spri-nklers to reduce water consumption by plants and help in conservation of water.zz Create Rain water harvesting in

Communities;zz R.O. water discharges to be used

for vessel washing, cleaning cloths, etc;zz Washing Machine Soap Water

can be used for cleaning floors. Mosaic Floor Shines.zz Aforestation can help water to

pe netrate into the soil and replenish the water table. Therefore, plant more trees in open spaces and Gardens;zz Tap Water usages to be regulated

– Special Nozzles to be installed;zz Check for water leakages inside

our house and outside viz., Offices, etc. Immediately inform Civic Authorities to cure the leakages;

The way the future could be in this area if Water is conserved

It is our duty to conserve Water. Water conservation will ensure that entire universe; lead a life full of love and happiness. Let us all resolve to hand over Mother Earth to our future generation in a better condition than what we had inherited. ¥

Importance of WaterAll plants, animals and human

beings need water to stay alive. But human beings depend on water more than plants and animals. We need water for many other purposes such as: zJ We need water for the day-to-

day activities such as bathing, cleaning, drinking, washing, etc.

zJ Water helps in the dispersal of seeds and fruits and for irrigations.

zJ All industries use a large amount of water for cleaning, heating, cooling, generating electricity, as a raw material, etc.

zJ Water is used for transport and recreation too.

Composition of the earth's water supply

97.5% Salt Water (sea water

2.5% Fresh Water

Available fresh water


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Recently, I travelled by Shatabdi Express between Pune and

Secunderabad. That was my second journey by this train in last 5 years. That time she was running with old ICF coaches. I would like here to share my experiences and observa-tions of the recent journey by this Shatabdi.

First of all I would like to intro-duce about Pune-Secu nderabad Shatabdi Express. This train was started on 14 November 2011. This is the longest Shatabdi Express on diesel traction. It is also the fastest Shatabdi Express on Indian Railways on the same traction. This the only Shatabdi Express belongs to the Central Railway zone. This train connects cultural capital of Maharashtra–Pune to the sister city of the capital of Telangana-Secun-derabad. Both cities are also well-known for IT hubs located there. The Shatabdi covers the distance of 597 kilometres in 8 and half hours. She leaves Pune early in the morning and returns at same night. She runs every day except Tuesdays.

As I reached the platform around 05:00 hrs, I saw train was already standing there. Then I entered 12025 Pune Secunderabad Shatabdi Express with excitement because I was going to fulfill my dream of travelling by this train, when she would have been allotted LHB coaches. From the very first sight I started realizing the changes taken place in this train in last five years. Old ICF rake has been replaced with state-of-the-art Linke Hoffmann Busch (LHB) coaches. I observed that the coach was neatly maintained from inside and it was also clean. When I looked out, I spotted that water bottles, snacks, newspapers etc. were being loaded in the coaches.

The Shatabdi left Pune Jn. sharp at 05:50 hrs. That day state-of-the-art 4500 hp WDP-4D loco was the ‘workhorse’ of our Shatabdi. Having reached the Advanced Starter Signal of Pune Jn. the Shatabdi started

picking up. Few minutes later, water bottles and newspapers were given to all passengers. Outside, I spotted so many trains were running hurriedly towards Pune. I was engaged in watching all these happening in and out of the train. Meanwhile, RPF jawans started patrolling in the train. They were with us till Secun derabad. Now it was time to have a tea. Each one of the passengers were served a tea kit and hot water in Thermos. But suddenly, the Shatabdi started running slowly. I was curious to know the reason and was looking out of the window. In a moment I understood that the development work was going at an intermediate station and therefore, it was necessary to the Shatabdi to cross it slowly. As soon as we crossed that station, the Shatabdi picked up again.

Around 08:00 hrs when the train was running on the banks of Ujani reservoir’s back water, breakfast was served to us. The quality of the breakfast was good. While having breakfast I was looking at fishermen in reservoir who were engaged in fishing.

I was travelling on this route after five years. I was there fore curious to get acquainted with each and everything, the progress of various works going on this route. During the entire journey I noticed that the various works of

doubling, electrification, station develo pment etc. were under way on various locations. Doubling of most of the line is well in progress here. Though this is one of the important route of the Golden Quadrilateral i.e. Mumbai-Chennai route, it could not received proper attention. As a result it remained most under developed route of the Quadri lateral. Hence, I was pleased to see all of these developmental activities taking place there and hope the doubling of this entire route would be commissioned soon.

Some time later the Shatabdi stopped on the loop line at Dhavalas station (around 88 kilometres before Solapur) around 8 o’clock. The 11027 Mumbai-Chennai Mail was also waiting on another loop line. These trains were detained there because next block section was single-lined and occupied by 11014 Coimbatore-Lokmanya Tilak (T) exp. This thing showed the necessity of the doubling of this important route.

Around 09:15 hrs, the Shatabdi made her first commercial halt at Solapur. After that a on-board house-keeping person came and cleaned all the snacks tables. Some time later one of them came to me and requested to fill the feedback form. Around 10:30 hrs the Shatabdi crossed the first station of the State of Karnataka–Kulali and few minutes later we made the second commercial halt of our journey at Gulbarga. Now Shatabdi again started running with full speed to reach at Wadi Jn. on time. Meanwhile, bread-sticks, tomato soup were served to us. We reached

Experiencing Changes Through ShatabdiParag PurohitFreelancer, Pune

View of the Pune-Secunderabad Shatabdi

Breakfast on board Shatabdi

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Wadi Jn. right time at 11:27 hrs. Within minutes crew of our Shatabdi was changed and the train started further journey.

At 12:00 noon lunch was served. I noticed improvement in the quality of the food being served on-board this Shatabdi. Everything served for lunch was tasty. After lunch, ice cream was also served. I was seeing nature’s beauty from the window while having lunch. It was monsoon and due to the rain

there was greenery everywhere. The nature had beautified the entire landscape. Meanwhile, the Shatabdi was galloping towards her destination making very short commercial halts at Tandur and Vikarabad Jn. At Begumpet Shatabdi made one more commercial halt–just before Secunderabad, where most of the passengers alighted. Finally the Shatabdi ran along bank of the famous Hussein Sagar Lake of Hyderabad and reached her

destination. I alighted at Secun-derabad with satisfaction.

During entire journey I witnessed so many changes taken place in and out of this train in last few years; from coaches to Staff ’s attitude, on-board House-keeping service, quality of food and from development works at on-route stations to the doubling and electrification of the route. All of these things made me satisfied. And I had a memorable journey. ¥

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Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management (IRITM), Lucknow

Ajaya Pratap SinghDirector

Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management (IRITM)

was established at Lucknow in 1999 as a Centralized Training Institute to impart training to Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officers selected through Civil Services Examination. The Institute was also entrusted the responsibility of conducting academic courses in Transportation Business for In-service Traffic officers and multi-disciplinary courses for all Railway officers.

The Foundation Stone of the Institute’s Infrastructure was laid by the then Prime Minister of India Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 31st January, 2001 and the inauguration of the Infrastructure was also done by the then Prime Minister of India Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 21st May, 2003.

The Institute has been nominated by Railway Board as Centralized Training Institute for conducting courses on Disaster Management for all Railway officers. At the behest of Railway Board Safety Management course has been introduced for CSOs, ADRMs & SAG officers to be conducted every month for quick coverage.

Similarly, under the instructions of Environment & Housekeeping Directorate of Railway Board, the Institute is also conducting special course for Railway Officers of all departments on “Environment & Housekeeping Management”.

Initially, the Institute started functioning in RDSO campus and moved into its sprawling 72 acre campus on 21st May, 2003. IRTS officers of 2002 examination batch were the first batch of officers to undergo professional training at the Institute.

Apart from professional training of IRTS Officer Trainees the Institute covers courses on

Transport Management, Transport Planning, Information & Technology in Transportation Business, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Services Marketing, Big Data, Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence, Customer Care, Claims, Crowd & Media Management, Tender & Contract Management, Vigilance, Right to Information, Human Resource Development, Communication Skills, etc.. Appreciation courses for Probationary officers of all other Railway services are also conducted in related areas of Transportation.

Paid courses for PSUs & private organizations and courses for railway officers from foreign countries are also conducted at IRITM.

Contributions & Achievements of the Institute in the field of training are as follows:A. As compared to 19 training

courses conducted in year 2016, record 67 courses were con-ducted in year 2017, which is higher by 252.63%. Similarly, record 82 courses were conducted in year 2018, which is

22.38% higher than courses conducted in year 2017.

B. 1594 officers were trained in year 2017, a record, as compared to 574 officers trained in year 2016, which is higher by 177.70%. Again in 2018, a record number of 1668 officers were trained as compared to year 2017, which is higher by 4.64%.

C. Record 7124 trainee days were generated in year 2017 as compared to 2658 in year 2016, which shows an increase by 168.02%. In year 2018, 7882 trainee days were generated, which is 10.64% higher than the year 2017.

Under the Paris Climate Conference 2015 (COP21), India is committed to reduce carbon footprints by 33% by 2030. IRITM is already on job to contribute to

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the challenge through a large number of initiatives undertaken in the campus towards preserving Bio-diversity and strengthening the environment.

Green CampusThe campus is being made more

green by undertaking large scale plantation by planting saplings of fruit bearing and other shady trees. Banana, Guava, Mango, Papaya, Karaunda, Lychee, Lemon, Naseberry and other fruit bearing trees have been planted on large scale. It also helps maintain the flora, fauna natural lifecycle.

Large scale plantation of Peepal, Banyan, Neem, Pakar, Gular, etc. are being done on regular basis.

The green campus takes care of campus oxygen requirement and has a abundant surplus for the adjacent localities.

Water Management IRITM has developed water

bodies through which ground water is being regularly recharged. This takes care of not only the requirements of IRITM but also generates a minimum surplus of more than 100 times to our annual consumption.

Clean Energy Installation of Solar panels on

large scale is already in process. Rooftop Solar Cells to generate 160 kWp is in completion stage of installation. 1 mWp generation of solar energy is already planned and targeted to be installed in 2019-20. Energy efficient LED lights have replaced conventional lights. Use of Solar energy as alternate/renewable/clean source of energy will take care of the campus total energy requirements and generate surplus also.

Solar Energy

Energy Efficient LED Lights

Floriculture and eco-friendly landscaping makes the campus more compatible to learning.

Organic Farming training models are in place for officer trainees to get sensitized towards chemical fertilizer free farming.

Solid Waste Management through Vermiculture is another training model to produce bio-manure from dry leaves and food waste for use in horticulture, organic farming and floriculture. Latest Jai Gopal Vermiculture technique, provided by Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI)/Bareilly is being used for Vermiculture. It helps in eco-friendly management of abundant campus dry leaves as well as provides organic manure for campus consumption.

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IRITM has human interference free zones for migratory and rare birds and other faunas.

This year IRITM has won 03 first prizes and 03 second prizes during 50th U.P. State Flower & Vegetable exhibition in the following categories :

03 First Prizes : in Lawn from 500 to 700 sq mts., Lawn upto 100 sq mts. & Medicinal Plants garden upto 100 sq mts. categories.

03 Second Prizes : In Lawn from 10,000 to 12,000 sq mts., Campus special Landscaping upto 15,000 sq mts & Lawn from 300 to 400 sq mts. categories.

Social Service ActivitiesSocial Service Club of IRITM

organizes various types of social service activities every year. These activities include distribution of

With these efforts to protect and improve environment, IRITM has been able to reduce the temperature by 2 degrees within campus and generating good quality oxygen for officer trainees, faculty, staff and people residing in nearby areas.

Infrastructure

Academic Block

Hostel Building

Officers' Mess

Swimming Pool

Sports Facilities

Classroom

Library

Auditorium

Conference Hall

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food items, clothes, blankets, stationery, etc. to needy contractual staff of IRITM and orphans.

Celebrating World Earth Day49th World Earth Day was

celebrated on April 22, 2019 with special emphasis on Environment Protection. Plantation was done in the empty shells of raw coconut and officers were sensitized to use eco-friendly & biodegradable methods and materials to save EARTH and plant those trees which conserve water.

Celebrating Foundation DayIRITM foundation day was

organized on 21st May 2019 with zeal and enthusiasm. IRTS Probationary officers of 2015, 2016 and 2017 batch, faculty and staff organized and took part in various cultural activities. Shri K.K. Srivastava, Retd. Member Traffic (Chief Guest) along with other dignitaries graced the occasion.

Blood Donation CampIRITM in association with

Department of Transfusion Medicine, King George Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow organizes Blood Donation Camp every year. This year it was organized by Social Service Club on Saturday, June 8, 2019. Officer trainees, faculty and staff donated 28 units of blood.

Celebrating World Environment Day

World Environment Day is celebrated at IRITM every year on 5th June 2019. It was celebrated with great enthusiasm to bring positive changes in attitude towards the preservation of environment. A poster competition was also orga-nized and winners were awarded.

Valediction Function of IRTS 2016 batch

The Valediction function of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officers of 2016 batch was

organized at Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management (IRITM), Lucknow on June 15, 2019. Sri Girish Pillai, Member (Traffic), Railway Board graced the occasion as Chief Guest.

Celebrating International Yoga Day

Fifth International Yoga day was celebrated on 21st June 2019 with great zeal and enthusiasm. All officers trainees, faculty and staff participated in the yoga session & performed asanas, pranayam and meditation under the guidance of yoga teacher Ms. Vandana Baranwal.

Shri Girish Pillai, the then Member (Traffic), Railway Board with IRITM faculty & Passing out officers

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How to Value “Valued Customers” of Indian Railways

Ajaya Pratap SinghDirector

In India, the major thrust in transport infrastructure can be

traced back to the era even before the Mauryan Empire called as ‘Uttar Patha’ which was considered as one of Asia’s oldest and longest major roads. This was considered essential for serving the Co mm-ercial as well as the Administrative requirements of the Empires.

Originating in Chittagong in present Bangladesh and termi-nating in Kabul in present Afgha-nistan it ran across North India passing through Howrah, Banaras, Delhi, Amritsar, Lahore and to Peshawar, basically connecting Eastern India to Central Asia. Major significance of this route came up during Sher Shah Suri’s rule, and later during the British Empire metalled road construction was programmed and the road rechristened as the Grand Trunk Road extending from Calcutta to Peshawar. A Public Works Depart-ment and College of Civil Engi-neering (1847- 1854) was established to train and employ staff to perform the work and in future maintain it and the other roads. Later this college was renamed as Thomason College of Civil Engineering (1854-1947), University of Roorkee (1947-2001) and finally the Indian Institute of Technology (2001).

THOMSON, the first Locomotive started work in India on 22.12.1851 to help construction of the Ganges Canal - Solani Aquaduct Railway to transport construction material.

Earlier, the first Railway impre-ssion came up with the Red Hills Railway (Rail Road) constructed in 1836 and opened in 1837 & the Godavari Dam construction Railway in 1845. In addition to Road, Rail Tra nsport got introduced to contribute in the journey of growth, deve lopment, integration & administration.

the desired level & quality of Service due to the Rail Passengers who are regularly termed as ‘Valued Customers’. In earlier days, an extra passenger in Upper and Reserved classes was unthinkable but even with passage of time and upgra-dation of technology it is regular to witness around 25% to 50% extra passengers in Upper/Reserved classes. Unreserved class condition is Traumatic by overcrowding generally beyond 100%.

In Freight segment assurance of Rake availability on Demand is a far fetched promise given to Freight Customers. Speed of Freight trains remain very low.

In Parcel segment again the constraints of availability of capacity & non-flexibility in tariff/policy has led to almost total migration of this sector witnessing boundless growth for other modes.

The possible solution is increase in capacity by doubling, tripling, quadrupleting, new lines, etc. but the likely gestation period of completing such project works is long on account of issues of land ac-qui sition, forest clearance, rehabi-litation, etc., heavy capital investment/arrangement, limita-tion of construction resources and carrying out the works along with running of normal train operation.

The situation is not of Customer Delight

The dignity of our ‘Valued Customers’ is compromised. Indian Railways has been very sensitive towards the well being of transportation of livestock . Several Circulars have been issued from time to time restricting the number of livestock for transportation in

Shri Ajaya Pratap Singh

Thomson Steam Locomotive

Thomson Steam Locomotive

The first Railway passenger services was introduced on 16th April’ 1853 between Boribandar to Thane (34 kms.) carrying 400 people in 14 Carriages. Since that day the Indian Railways has progressed leaps & bounds and the Network far spread out connecting all regions & places in the country. Carrying 8438 million Passengers, 1223 million tonnes of Freight and 5188 tonnes of Parcel in 2018-19 we boast of carrying passengers more than the total population of Australia, daily. But is this situation worthy of taking pride !

The coaches remain over crowded to the level it was couple of decades back. Regular inve-stments & especially heavy inve-stments in the current decade have not been successful in providing

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Wagons/VPUs. In the same amount of floor space carrying Passengers, the number of various livestock is not only restricted but in addition loading can only be done after comfortable & healthy travel is ensured through certificates from concerned authorities. Animal Rights promoters/activists are also concerned for maintaining the well being of these Animals during transportation & act as watchdogs.

Human Rights Promoters/Activists are nowhere to be seen when it comes to passenger travel in Train. Any day, in any Train & on all patronized routes, the General Compartment can be seen overflowing/overcrowded with around 200-300 passengers, occupying even the Toilets. It is high time that the sensitivity has to be extended to our ‘Valued Passenger Custo mers’. Indian Railways is Duty Bound.

80’s decade, conceptualized on Allahabad division-BG (then with NR) & Sonepur/Samastipur divisions-MG (then with NER) but could not push ahead maybe due to incorrect appreciation & non-availability of compatible Infrastructure.

In Passenger segment, run additional Long Haul Passenger Trains by clubbing 2-Trains on the same route with common Originating/Terminating points on all patronized routes, and shall be an acceptable model to the statement that there is capacity constraint to run additional Trains as now only one train shall be operating in place of two trains. One train at a time can be run between two stations. It can run as a single Loco motive or Locomotive with certain number of coaches/wagons and defined as one train. In passenger segment, the longest service permitted currently is Locomotive + 24 Coaches + VPU/RA.

With the huge size of Indian demography con stituting more than 125 Crore popu lation with health, education & employment oppo rtunities spread all over, the need to travel short and long distances are immense & growing. Railway also provides faster, cheaper, comfortable, safe and environment friendly travel compared to any other transport mode. Safety figures 2018-19 of road in India reflect 400 accidents per day with around 1,50,000 deaths every year as compared to Railways which is only 59 number

of accidents with fatality figures at 37 only in 2018-19. Due to the above, Rail travel is a preferred mode but capacity constraint of running additional trains and inhuman conditions of travel perforce shifted Passenger segment towards Road or Airways. This trend

has to be checked immediately. Running of long haul passenger

services is a solution which will take care of many issues pertaining to Train operations. It is suggested that well patronized originating/terminating desti nations should be provided with passenger services end to end having 48-coaches. For this, the requirement shall be of providing maintenance facilities at originating and destination stations, com patible length platforms, long loops to accommodate 48- coach pa ssenger services at intermediate stations specially for crew changing, watering & pro viding other passenger platform/on board services. The originating and terminating destinations should be developed at nearby locations to the existing ones (satellite sta tions) as existing junctions/impo rtant stations have space constraints, and between the originating / term i nating desti nations the minimum nu mber of long loop stations esse ntial to be provided. Admini stration may decide for more number of such long loops, if required & keeping availability of fund in mind.

In this arrangement, with two train length passenger train service, the number of trains on patronized routes shall reduce creating capacity to run additional trains, run newer train services, provide need based maintenance blocks without disrupting normal services & ensure better train safety.

But is This Situation Worthy of Taking Pride !

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Then, where does the solution lie?

To fulfil Customer aspirations the immediate remedy can be found out in the concept of Long Haul Pass enger, Freight & Parcel Trains. The concept, which on Indian Railways dates back to the early

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The long loops shall facilitate Running of Long Haul Freight & Parcel services as well. Idea has already moved forward where operational compulsions have led to running of Long Haul Freight Trains on designated routes combining 2 Freight Trains (all Zonal Railways) or 3 Freight Trains (SECR), on adhoc basis. For the Freight/Parcel segments also, compatible maintenance facilities shall have to be developed.

freight services, increase the turn around and availability of both passenger and freight rolling stock, pass on the reduced cost of transportation to passenger, parcel and freight customer by reducing tariffs, divert both passenger and freight traffic from Road to Rail, and contribute in extending eco-friendly transport helping the Government of India fulfil its Paris summit commitments of reducing carbon foot print. For putting the above arrangement in place Investment requirement shall be marginal for the full Indian Railway network, around 03-05 years of gestation period for implementation of the full scheme and thereafter Passenger & Freight services as and when demanded shall be available to our valued custo mers along with the desired very high level of revenue gene ration to Indian Railways in return.

The Passenger overcrowding has in recent years justified the heavy compensation claims lodged/paid in RCT/awarded by RCT under Section 124-A ‘Untoward Incidents’ as Railway cannot deny Over-crowding as cause of Accidental fall from train in the given conditions. The 5 Trillion Economy being conte mplated by 2025 shall require very fast Capacity Enhancement in Transport sector & primarily in Railways to take care of Transport Req ui rements of the very fast Growing Economy through Long Haul Train Operations. The International exp erience is similar as need based custo mization is in vogue. Less population & reduced passenger service requ ire ment (of course with High Speed) puts in place train sets/coaches between 10-16 only, but in Freight segment on dedicated routes custo mised to

requirement Freight trains length are even more than 7 kms. with around 700 Cars/Wagons/Units with heavy load axles.

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Long Haul–3 Freight Trains (SECR : between Raipur-Bilaspur

divisions) (India)

ThanksgivingI am thankful to Shri Ajaya Pratap Singh, Director, IRITM for coming forward to bring out a focus on IRITM and to Shri Kishore Mehta, Course Coordinator, for coordinating the work.I am also thankul to all the writers for their special articles in the Focus Issue

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Long Haul–2 Freight Trains (India)

This model shall in addition to creating capacity on the existing network shall be beneficial in reducing the per unit cost of transportation (only marginal cost shall be incurred), increase the speed of both passenger and

Indian Railways should similarly customize & provide real value to Railway Customers

With this model in place & generation of additional Capacity, the much desired product of Indian Railways, ‘Village on Wheels - Common Man Tourism’ (Railway Budget 2004 - pronouncement) can be implemented in the spirit it was conceived - pre sently being run as ‘Bharat Darshan’. There has been

great thrust towards Tourism since 2014, from where the Government of India has projected Tourism-Domestic & International forward to become an important contributor towards the country’s GDP. Tourism currently contributes about 10% in GDP and has the potential to grow at least equal to / or surpass the services sector. This shall be possible with the Indian Railways taking the lead. ¥

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Indian Railways is committed to safe train operations. Indian

Railways is the fourth largest net-work in terms of route kilometers. Gradually, Indian railway network is moving towards uni-gauge. In order to meet the ever increasing challenges of passenger and freight traffic, dedicated freight corridors are coming on Eastern and Western corridors. Releasing capacity to run more passenger carrying trains to meet the aspirations of the public.

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Safe Train OperationShelleyandra Kapil

Dean, IRITM

In order to ensure safe train operation Ministry of Railways has given top priority to safety on Indian Railways. After the accident at Khatoli station of Delhi division of Northern Railway, Indian Railways has gone in a big way for replacement of the over-aged tracks, changing broken/fractured rails and installing state-of-the-art systems for detection of broken rails. The other vulnerable areas have also been identified which are prone to accidents. Establi-shing as a mission area, all unmanned level crossings have been eliminated by providing

Elimination of last unmanned crossing on January 31, 2019.

Limited Height Subways

taken to ensure the mitigation so that the systems work, deficiencies are removed and asset reliability is improved. This scheme has paid high dividends and the safety scenario has improved tremendously. The feedback received is being monitored in every zone at CSO level. A record of deficiencies overcome is also being kept and is shared with the divisions and system improvements are being suggested to strengthen the safety environment.

There is lot of emphasis on mitigating the unusual working/abnormalities observed by the running staff while working the train. System has been established to give the feedback of the deficiencies overcome and action taken by the field staff through the lobbies. As a result of which the running staff are being motivated to ensure the safe train operation and running to the potential so that the objectives of punctuality and productivity are achieved.

A lot of initiatives are also being taken to control the cases of Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD). The unproductive periods, pre-departure detentions, providing sleep worthy facilities in the running room, the day-to-day

limited height subways, connecting with the manned gates or by manning the gates. As a result of which, in future there will be no accidents on unmanned level crossing gates.

Indian Railways have introduced Voluntarily Reporting System in which any of the staff or officer of Indian Railways can report the deficiencies, the violation of rules and unsafe working taking place to DRMs, GMs and Railway Board officials. The identity will be kept secret and corrective action will be

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Track Maintenance

issues related to sanction of leave, payment of dues, allowances from time to time and welfare are being monitored as a system. Relocation of combined lobbies as near as running rooms has also being resorted to. Caution order copies are being given to both loco pilots and assistant loco pilots. The computerized caution orders with bigger font size are being issued.

The driving cabs have been widened and made eco-friendly so that the loco pilots feel comfortable and relaxed. Focused counseling is being given by the use of audio visual aids and objective questions regarding the rules safety circulars and departmental operating instru-ctions. Loco staff are also adequately guided by the termination boards of different lengths of trains like sub urban trains, short load and full load coaching and goods trains. Right placement of various caution indicators is also being ensured by

acting upon the feedback received from running staff. The running staff have also been provided with hand books containing the location of various signals, gate signals, combined signals and the home signals having calling on signals with/without location boards.

On High density routes the over-aged electro mechanical signaling systems are being replaced by electronic interlocking systems. In this way train operation system is moving towards centralized system from cabin working system. The whole station section has been track circuited by means of conventional track circuiting and axle counters. As compare to the earlier systems of cabin working, end panels, central panels, the reliability of assets have improved tremendously and there is less requirement of maintenance in the form of disconnections and reconnections. The conventional

track circuiting has in addition also help to detect rail fractures, weld fractures stock rail breakages and switch expansion joint stock rail breakages in the track circuited zones. In the MACLS territory, all conventional signal bulbs including shunt signals have been replaced by LED bulbs.

The alertness of line staff working in open line departments, i.e. engineering, TRD, carriage and wagon, loco running, traffic station masters have played a great role in enhancing safety. The alertness has been appreciated and awarded at various levels, i.e. Divisional, Headquarters and Railway Board level. Timely monetary awards and appreciation letters help in motivating the staff at large and to the staff who have shown exemplary alertness and saved accidents and preventing loss of human life and loss to railway property. Acts of exemplary alertness and perfo-rmance should be given adequate publicity among staff and on Indian Railways so that others can be encouraged to perform better.

The adoption of technology has also helped in improving the safety scenario and minimal loss of human lives in case the accidents. Indian Railways have taken a policy deci-sion that in future only LHB coaches will be manufactured in the railway workshops. Presently 431 rakes of LHB coaches are running on Indian Railways and in future all rakes will be replaced by LHB coaches.

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With the talk going on about turning India to a $ 5 trillion

economy in next 5 years Indian Railways should gear up so that it remains at the forefront in the national endeavor. One of the important steps that we should take is to evaluate how technology can be used to increase efficiency, enhance effectiveness and generate superlative user experience for its customer.

The advent of Big Data and Artificial intelligence has transformed the way industries look at Information technology and its applicability to the processes. Previously the benefits of IT were assessed in terms of efficiency and data visibility. The expectation from IT was to get the process out-put faster with consistency and traceability. The advent of Big Data enabled Artificial Intelligence capability has set the expectation from IT services to a completely new dimension. IT is supposed to become decision enabler and also decision taker. Figure 1 above traces the IT value realization map. Typically, we see three distinct phases of IT value realization. First phase was the phase of activity automation where companies implemented solutions which

implemented tools to automate activities of the processes. This was the time when AS400 based imple-mentations took place. This was also the time when lot of companies implemented mail systems for internal commu nica tions and eliminated the paper based files. This helped in auto mation however it also led to creation of silos. That was when ERP solutions came and companies implemented them to create one integrated view of the business processes. This started big ERP implementation and creation of single databases for business processes. Over a period of last 15 to 20 years and over multiple rounds of implementation and

customization of ERP solutions companies started facing the problem of behemoth data sets and creation of multiple data ware-houses. This is when new technologies evolved to manage huge sets of data with speed that was never possible. This new capability was also able to process variety of data sets. The historical evolution happened with eme-rgence of new technology and capabilities. Figure 2 explains the emerging technology and resultant capabilities.

Technology priorities for Railways – 3 E paradigm

The role of technology for Indian Railways can be evaluated in three dimensions of Efficiency, Effectiveness and Experience. Let us understand the 3 dimensions and what do they mean. Figure 3 presents the Efficiency, Effe-ctiveness and Experience conti-nuum and what they mean.

The Big Data for Indian RailwaysIndian Railways is one of the

most complex railways network in the world where the ancient meets most modern when it comes to technology. We still use one of the oldest locomotive engines and narrow gauge tracks. The level of automation is comparatively less

New Paradigms of Technology for Indian RailwaysShivendra Shukla

Sr. Professor/IT & Infrastructure

New Paradigms of technology for Indian Railways

With the talk going on about turning India to a $ 5 trillion economy in next 5 years Indian railways should gear up so that it remains at the forefront in the national endeavor. One of the important steps that we should take is to evaluate how technology can be used to increase efficiency, enhance effectiveness and generate superlative user experience for its customer.

The advent of Big Data and Artificial intelligence has transformed the way industries look at Information technology and its applicability to the processes. Previously the benefits of IT were assessed in terms of efficiency and data visibility. The expectation from IT was to get the process output faster with

consistency and traceability. The advent of Big Data enabled Artificial Intelligence capability has set the expectation from IT services to a completely new dimension. IT is supposed to become decision enabler and also decision taker. Figure 1 above traces the IT value realization map. Typically, we see three distinct phases of IT value realization. First phase was the phase of activity automation

where companies implemented solutions which implemented tools to automate activities of the processes. This was the time when AS400 based implementations took place. This was also the time when lot of companies implemented mail systems for internal communications and eliminated the paper based files. This helped in automation however it also led to creation of silos. That was when ERP solutions came and companies implemented them to create one integrated view of the business processes. This started big ERP implementation and creation of single databases for business processes. Over a period of last 15 to 20 years and over multiple rounds of implementation and customization of ERP solutions companies started facing the problem of behemoth data sets and creation of multiple data warehouses. This is when new technologies evolved to manage huge sets of data with speed that was never possible. This new capability was also able to process variety of data sets.

The historical evolution happened with emergence of new technology and capabilities. Figure 2 explains the emerging technology and resultant capabilities.

Figure 2

Technology priorities for Railways – 3 E paradigm

The role of technology for Indian Railways can be evaluated in three dimensions of Efficiency, Effectiveness and Experience. Let us understand the 3 dimensions and what do they mean. Figure 3 presents the Efficiency, Effectiveness and Experience continuum and what they mean.

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and it is a human intensive organization.

Conclusion“Data is the new Diesel”. Big

corporations all over the world are powering their strategy based on data driven insights. It is important that we also have a proactive policy towards Data. Large corporations have created a proactive strategy towards data and how to leverage data for ushering in to the era of new generation. So far Indian Railways has done fantastic in terms

of use of technology to enable user access to its services. Passenger reservation system is marvelous example of how technology can create super lative user experience. It is one of the busiest e-commerce platforms of the world and it runs super efficiently. National Train enquiry system has made train travel easy with reduced hassles. These are only those usages which are visible to the users. It is the use of technology in its operations which can have maximum impact as depicted in Fig. 14 on its bottom-

line by increasing the asset utilization. The adoption of tech-nology on maintenance of assets has also been on the rise but much more is desired. For Indian Railways to make use of these powerful tools, it’s imperative that it works on an Information technology mission mode where right prioritization is done, projects identified and a roadmap drawn with clearly specified timelines. Big Data and its use can be one of the key success factors in taking Indian Railways to the next level of growth. ¥

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The Big Data for Indian railways

Indian railways is one of the most complex railways network in the world where the ancient meets most modern when it comes to technology. We still use one of the oldest locomotive engines and narrow gauge tracks. The level of automation is comparatively less and it is a human intensive organization.

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Figure 3

The Big Data for Indian railways

Indian railways is one of the most complex railways network in the world where the ancient meets most modern when it comes to technology. We still use one of the oldest locomotive engines and narrow gauge tracks. The level of automation is comparatively less and it is a human intensive organization.

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Challenges in Train OperationsN.B. Vikramaditya

Professor (Operations & Infrastructure)

Train operations are dynamic and complex. In order to run a

train even for a kilometers, it needs coordinated effort of railway staff and use of existing infrastructure of dedicated track, right loco motive to haul the train & signaling system. The train operations have moved from flag waving and whistling to entirely computer based train movements. This change is a continuous process and is based on technological inputs it keeps on evolving.

Train operations are about all those activities through which railways earn revenue. This consists of : 1. Train movement 2. Maintenance of infrastructure, and 3. Commercial earnings.

The train operations starts with identification of potential revenue earning inputs to railways either in the form of passenger transport or goods movement. Next part is the creation of system of working which brings order and clarity in how the trains should be run safely. The tools for this are General and Subsidiary Rules, Block Working Manuals and at a station, Station Working Rules. At present in most of sections, the ABSOLUTE BLOCK system of working is being followed for dispatching trains from one station to another station and at a time only one train can enter the block section between two stations.

Next is planning of entire activities from beginning to the end for running of each train. In case of coaching trains it is timetabling and identification of paths. The path is defined as the time gap available to run a train between two points. Coaching trains follow time tabled timings so their running between the stations, arrival and departure at particular station are all pre-defined and advertised to the public.

Goods trains are run in the time

gaps between the coaching trains. The goods operations are dynamic, unpredictable and change day by day, season and vary from year to year. The market demand of particular commodity at a place changes from place to place and is very dynamic. Such change in demands make these operations complex and affects larger Railway ecosystem. For example there is demand for sugar in southern part of India most of loaders wish to load sugar in goods trains to that direction. So if more number of Sugar rakes reaches destination in sequence, it will create problem leading to poor release of rakes, holding up of loaded rakes in section waiting for release and create mobility problems to run time tabled coaching trains on time. To avoid this the Railway Board, Zonal headquarters, and divisions constantly monitor the loading of particular commodity imposes quotas, restrictions to maintain fair balance between loading and mobility.

As the trains run day and night, therefore, a 24X7 working of Railway system is needed and is enabled by CONTROL OFFICE. In the control office Operating department plans and coordinates the train movements. All other departments – Commercial, RPF, Mechanical, electrical, Civil, S&T support and deliver in resolving the various issues arising in train running from time to time. In control office section controllers are actually monitor and guide the dispatch of trains between the stations, under their directions trains move from one station to another.

The train running involves movement of steel wheels on guided rails, moving mechanical parts of rolling stock, therefore, the wear and tear is high. It needs

constant attention, maintenance and zero compromise on safety. So there should be a cushion or time for such activities be tween train running which revitalizes the system then only it gives predictable output. For this maintenance, blocks for Civil, electrical and S&T depa-rtments and various maintenance schedules for rolling stock to be are planned.

For improving train operations, the customer and passenger satisfaction is important. In addition to punctual running of coaching trains and timely delivery of goods, the regular marketing of passenger and freight services, regulating fares and pricing policies are equally important.

Indian Railways has graduated from piecemeal movement to rake movements. We are progressing towards uniguage and electrified route kilmeterage to provide seamless train operation. In order to improve punctuality, self propelled EMUs, DMUs, MEMUs, T18, Vande Bharat as well as brakedown & maintenance vehicles are being pressed into operations. More and more chord lines by-passes are being added to improve mobility. We are also thinking in terms of first and last mile connectivity so as to compete with road transport and single window service to the customers. This will also help in invigorating the railway system, overcoming high cost of operations and also meeting the challenge of subsidized coaching operaions on Indian Railways.

The challenges have been met and Indian Railways are ready to meet the future challenges. Indian Railways are gearing up to lead from front and take the challenges in positive ways to tread our path to new heights and success stories. ¥

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Indian Railways : Need to Balance between Social Obligations and Financial Viability

Neha RatnakarProfessor Commercial & Training

IR is the 4th biggest Rail Network in the world after USA, China

& Russia. It runs 22000 trains daily which carry 23 million passengers and 3.3 million tonnes of goods. It’s aptly called the National Tran-sporter which provides the cheapest mode of transportation to the poorest section of the society. The unique socio-economic sce-nario of the country is also reflected in this gigantic organisation.

Fares are highly subsidised, wait lists are endless and general co aches are severely overcrowded. Unre served passenger traffic constitutes almost 80% of coaching traffic but it hardly contributes 20% in coaching earnings. Hence fare revision is a must. IR is giving 53 types of concessions in coaching segment. In 2013-14 cost of coaching earning was Paise 65.51 whereas earning was merely Paise 31.53 ie lesser than 50% of the cost only could be recovered. The aggregate loss in coaching segment was amounting to ` 34,298 crore. Safe, punctual, faster and Cleaner Trains are a must to give the real thrust to it. Rationalization of Flexi fare scheme is a desirable step. Concession policy may be reviewed. MST policy also needs to be re-stricted to the economically weaker section only. Except for nation building, education related acti-vities, widows of martyrs etc other concessions may be reviewed. Misuse of concessions is another issue which needs to be tackled stringently.

Coal makes almost 50% of the entire freight basket. But Short lead freight & Sub Urban passenger segment is going down. Safety per-fo rmance has improved significantly but still a simple human failure can cause big disaster. We still need to build a failsafe system. TPWS (Train Protection and Warning System),

TCAS (Train Collision Avoidance System) and other such devices need to be innovated/invented and universally implemented in IR. Training of running staff needs to be regularly improved and updated. Simulation devices being procured now can make positive difference in this regard.

Capacity Creation needs to be focused upon. Infrastructure needs immediate up gradation and improvements. Line capacity is over utilised. The traffic is not evenly distributed. The Golden Quadrilateral & its diagonals form 16% of RKM of IR but carrying 52% of Passenger and 58% of freight traffic. It is expected that DFCs will almost double the average speed of goods trains from 26 to 65 kmph. Also it is expected to reduce the unit cost of freight trains by 35-40%. Hence DFCs need to be completed early and feeder routes also to be developed to make it more effective. Also IR needs to develop Multimodal Logistics parks to expand and diversify it’s freight basket. Goods sheds’ conditions must be improved and better stocking, storing and other customer friendly services need to be provided. Doubling, Tripling, Electrification must to be kept on faster track. IR must enhance Speed, hauling capacity, carrying capacity and plan more time tabled goods trains, longhauls of goods and coaching trains, mixed trains etc to enhance our freight earnings. Planning and execution gap needs to be reduced. Fruits of doubling and electrification cannot be materialised as long as single line and non-electrified patches keep coming in between. Newly laid track shall not be kept waiting for months together for speed relaxations. PSRs & TSRs also need to be worked upon on priority. IR

may review the maintenance schedules of rolling stocks and longer cycle may be permitted to improve the overall utilisation. CC Rakes can be permitted for universal examination. More TXR batches can reduce the maintenance time. Better hauling capacity needs to be reflected in average speed. Inter Sectional Running Time needs revision since long. Freight Time Table which is discontinued since 1980s, may be reintroduced for better planning and running of goods train. Loco pilots need to be motivated to run as per MPS and more cautious while decelerating and accelerating the speed of the loco. Freight policies need to be further liberalised to accommodate the local demand scenario at divisional level.

IR has a beautiful mix of various departments where each one is assigned with some specific task. But sometimes it leads to lack of co ordination inside the organisation. Hence all departments must strive towards common organisation goal and perform as a team.Outsourcing of various activities is now a common scenario in IR. But quality is being compromised sometimes. Construction related contracts can have a guarantee clause to ensure durable asset creation. Quality monitoring is a must in static and mobile catering, cleaning at stations and in trains, primary, secondary and OEM maintenance of trains, upkeep and management of linen etc to maintain the desired standards of the services.

NFR remains the biggest unexplored area which is yet to pay the dividends despite major policy changes in this regard. This kind of flexibility remains unheard in the history of IR. IR has earned ̀ 204.10 crore and ` 223.53 crore during financial years 2017-18 and 2018-

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The reliability of goods stock is being improved by conducting CC (Close Circuit) examination rakes and running them with twin pipe. The twin pipe running has reduced the cases of severe brake binding and there by improvement in speeds and hours on run. The

replacement of four wheelers brake vans with eight wheeler brake vans has also improved the train operations, speeds and movability.

Indian Railways have also taken policy decisions to eliminate all manned level crossing gates by

year 2025, electrification of all route kilometers of all quadrilateral routes and introduction of more and more VANDE BHARAT rakes so that no reversal of locos. All these initiatives have and will go in future and in a long way in enhancing the safe train operation. ¥

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19 respectively from Non-Fare Revenue which is hardly 5% of overall earnings. Whereas plans are to earn almost ` 39000 crore by 2028. Hence IR must gear up with better commercial and marketing aptitude to increase it’s Non Fare Earnings. Bangalore division could successfully award Rail Display Network contract for entire division worth ` 51 Crore. Palakkad division has done successful Out of Home contract, SER has done “Branding on Wheels” on 300 BOXN wagons, Guntur did PF Branding, HYD div brought inflatable theatre, massage chairs at KCG, Mumbai( WR) launched on board shopping, got vertical garden at Churchgate station ...these are just a few examples in this direction. Still so much has to be done by utilising the immense

potential of vast assets of IR through this policy.

Stations can be earmarked in Core and Non Core areas and full commercialisation of the later can be done. Reserve class tickets can be barcoded and coach doors can be equipped with barcode readers. It will not only save manpower but can also prevent unauthorised vendors, anti social elements etc. IR may market vacant berths, popu-larize less popular trains, encourage frequent travellers. Cleanliness may be publicised as a Mutual Responsibility. Outsourced activities must be followed by effective and continuous supervision.

IR is one of the biggest employers in the world having 1.3 million on its roll. Many dedicated and tale-nted souls are behind this enormous

organisation. IR also needs to ensure that each and every employee is committed to the organisation and fulfils his/her task diligently and honestly to maintain their productivity. Hence regular screening of unproductive manpower is required. Financial Incentives for sincere, dedicated & hard working employees may be planned to encourage good workers. 360 degree performance review may be implemented to have better assessment of IR Employees.

IR is a giant organisation. No single measure can do wonders. But strategically thoughtful planning, dedicated teamwork and constant efforts will definitely bring desired changes and IR can experience a more beautiful and better tomorrow. JAI HIND ¥

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