Chhatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Heritage Building, Mumbai will soon be illuminated with green energy. The full energy consumption of heritage building and other office buildings of various divisions of Central Railway will be from Green Energy. This is yet another green initiative by Central Railway after recently converting Neral – Matheran section, Asangaon and Mankhurd as fully green energy stations.

The supply of green energy to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus will soon be possible as Central Railway entered into an Agreement with M/s Sri Pavan Energy Pvt. Ltd, a Government of India Undertaking, to provide Power at Rs. 5.18 per unit recently. Under this agreement the power of 6 Mega Watt green energy generated by Wind Turbine by M/s Sri Pavan Energy Pvt. Ltd, under commissioning at Sangli district of Maharashtra will be utilized at 6 different stations of Central Railway and South Eastern Railway i.e Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Manmad, Bhusawal and Nagpur. A Total of 12.93 million units green energy is expected to be generated that will be utilised for the full energy consumption of Heritage building of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and other office buildings of various divisions. The energy will be generated at Sangli district it will be received through the grid connection to various points of Central Railway. This power purchase will be utilized for meeting the requirement of Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPO) and the agreement will be valid for 25 years. An estimated amount of Rs. 1.5 Crores will be saved on electricity bill through this agreement.

The illumination of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Building with green energy will add another feather to the cap of Energy Conservation initiatives as a high priority mission in Railways.

छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज टर्मिनस हेरिटेज बिल्डिंग, मुंबई जल्द ही हरित ऊर्जा (ग्रीन एनर्जी ) द्वारा प्रकाशमान होगा । मध्य रेल के सभी विभागों,विरासत भवन तथा अन्य कार्यालय भवनों की पूरी ऊर्जा खपत हरित ऊर्जा (ग्रीन एनर्जी ) से होगी। हाल ही में नेरल-माथेरान सेक्शन, आसनगांव और मानखुर्द को पूरी तरह से हरित ऊर्जा (ग्रीन एनर्जी ) स्टेशनों के रूप में परिवर्तित करने के बाद मध्य रेल द्वारा यह एक और पहल है।

  छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज टर्मिनस को हरित ऊर्जा (ग्रीन एनर्जी )की आपूर्ति जल्द ही संभव हो जाएगी क्योंकि मध्य रेल ने मैसर्स श्री पवन एनर्जी प्राइवेट जो भारत सरकार की उपक्रम है के साथ इस परियोजना हेतु करार किया है जो मध्य रेल को रु. 5.18 प्रति यूनिट की दर से बिजली प्रदान करेगी । इस समझौते के तहत मेसर्स श्री पवन एनर्जी प्राइवेट द्वारा महाराष्ट्र के सांगली जिले मई स्थापित पवन टरबाइन द्वारा उत्पादित 6 मेगा वाट हरित ऊर्जा (ग्रीन एनर्जी ) की शक्ति का उपयोग  मध्य रेल और दक्षिण पूर्वी रेलवे अर्थात छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज टर्मिनस, मनमाड, भुसावल और नागपुर के 6 अलग-अलग स्टेशनों पर उपयोग किया जाएगा। कुल 12.93 मिलियन यूनिट की हरित ऊर्जा (ग्रीन एनर्जी )उत्पन्न होने की उम्मीद है जिसका उपयोग छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज टर्मिनस के विरासत भवन, मध्य रेल के  विभिन्न विभागों एवं अन्य कार्यालय भवनों की पूर्ण ऊर्जा खपत के लिए किया जाएगा। सांगली जिले में ऊर्जा उत्पन्न की जाएगी, इसे मध्य रेल के विभिन्न बिंदुओं के ग्रिड कनेक्शन के माध्यम से प्राप्त किया जाएगा। इस बिजली खरीद का उपयोग नवीकरणीय खरीद करार (आरपीओ) की आवश्यकता को पूरा करने के लिए किया जाएगा और यह समझौता 25 वर्षों के लिए मान्य होगा। इस समझौते के माध्यम से बिजली बिल पर अनुमानित राशि रु 1.5 करोड़ रुपए की बचत होगी ।

छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज टर्मिनस बिल्डिंग का हरित ऊर्जा (ग्रीन एनर्जी ) के साथ प्रकाशवान होने से रेल्वे ऊर्जा संरक्षण के क्षेत्र में एक और अध्याय जोड़ देगी ।

The N.F. Railway has been accused of serious breach of safety of the passengers in the region. If the N.F. Railway Mazdoor Union is to be believed, trains from Dibrugarh station are leaving without proper examination and repair.The number of trains has been increasing from Dibrugarh Railway Station in Banipur but the station lacks required infrastructure, spare parts and adequate manpower for maintenance, repair and examination. Given the number of trains running from and arriving at the station, there is a requirement of another 500 personnel in various departments to carry out proper examination of trains, according to the union.

The central vice president of N.F. Railway Mazdoor Union, Sanjib Bhattacharyya told that the passenger safety is in danger due to improper examination and repair of trains due to lack of adequate manpower, non-availability of adequate spare parts and for not providing the prescribed coach examination time.

“Our union is not against having more and more trains from the station. We are demanding that additional manpower be made available with every increasing train and the time prescribed for examination of each coach be allotted. We are also demanding that spare parts be made available at the workshop,” said Sanjib Bhattacharyya.

It may be noted that over 30 trains originate and terminate from and at Dibrugarh. However, the Dibrugarh station lacks enough stabling (shunting) line to cope up with the increasing number of trains. It also lacks enough washing pit and sick line.

The union members are of the opinion that authorities must either stop introduction of more new trains or stop taking over primary maintenance of any more train without arranging additional manpower, spare parts and other infrastructure. “The existing staff is already overburdened and any further stress could be dangerous. The existing staff must not be harassed for the fault of the Railways to recruit additional manpower,” said Paresh Hazarika, Dibrugarh branch secretary of the N.F. Railway Mazdoor Union.

The union, which has launched 72-hour hunger strike at the workshop campus of Dibrugarh Station in Banipur in support of their various demands, has also asked the Railway authorities to stop outsourcing and privatization of regular nature of jobs.

The Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) organized a Technical Talk o­n ‘Block Chain Technology and its Applications to crypto currency’ today i.e., 8^th May, 2018 at Rail Nilayam Auditorium.

Vinod Kumar Yadav, General Manager, South Central Railway was the Chief Guest o­n the occasion. M.Ravi Babu, Regional General Manger, CRIS, Secunderabad co-ordinated the program.

Speaking o­n the occasion, Vinod Kumar Yadav stated that Technological Innovations and systemic developments needs to be applied in the working of public oriented organizations for better services. The Tech Talks organized by CRIS are very useful in updating the technical knowledge. The concept of block chain technology and the core concepts underlying the system needs to be examined for implementation in the general distribution systems, he opined.

Dr.N.V.Narendra Kumar delivered an elaborate presentation on “Block chain Technology and its applications to crypto currency” with reference to Bit Coin etc. He stated that Bit Coin system is realized by a clever combination of cryptography, P2P networking, distributed consensus and fault tolerant computing. However, being a public network, Bit Coin was not considered to be suitable for institutional usage where privacy and scalability play a vital role. The core concepts underlying the Bit Coin system were found to be very useful for general distributed system. Ethereum, another public system and crypto currency, demonstrated how general purpose distributed computing can be achieved through smart contracts on the block chain technology. Finally, the permissioned private block chain technology was born for institutional usage, where participating entities are assigned specific roles and responsibilities.

Dr.N.V.Narendra Kumar obtained M.S and Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. His research areas are Design, Modeling, Analysis and Development of Secure Computer Systems. He is recipient of “Microsoft Research India Rising Star Award” for his Ph.D thesis on Malware detection by behavioral approach and protection by access control. He has a U.S. patent on “Decentralized Information Flow Securing Method and System for Multi Level Security and Privacy Domains”. He is currently working on building a Model Block Chain platform at a centre for payment systems.

John Thomas, Additional General Manager, N. Madhusudana Rao, Principal Chief Operations Manager, South Central Railway and other Heads of the Departments and employees participated in large number.

The Central Railway’s (CR) Pune division will complete its monsoon preparatory works by the end of May to ensure uninterrupted services even in case of heavy rain.

CR-Pune division public relations officer Manoj Jhanvar said work has begun to avert waterlogging on the tracks and near the stations. “Tree branches along the tracks are being trimmed. In some cases, we have to cut trees if there is no alternative,” he said.

“Water channels on bridges are being cleaned and loose boulders on hills and hillocks near the tracks are being removed to ensure that landslides do not affect the rail services. We are also removing the small stones too close to the tracks,” Jhanvar added.

The monsoon preparatory works are in progress on the tracks measuring 503.39km in length. The entire stretch includes 133.50km of Lonavla-Pune-Daund, 328.21km of Pune-Miraj-Kolhapur and 41.68km Daund-Baramati sections.

“Railway employees will conduct monsoon patrolling on the tracks at important bridges like the ones at Dapodi and Shivajinagar and in the ghat sections from 10pm to 6am. We will also co-ordinate with the irrigation department to be aware of the discharge from the dams and monitor the Met department alerts,” Jhanvar said.

26 अप्रैल, 2018 को ट्रेन सं. 12909/12910 बांद्रा टर्मिनस-हजरत निजामुद्दीन गरीब रथ एक्सप्रेस में खानपान सामग्रियों को दिव्यांग कोच के शौचालय में स्टोर करने सम्बंधी सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हो रहे वीडियो को पश्चिम रेलवे द्वारा गंभीरता से लिया गया है, जिसके फलस्वरूप अन्य आवश्यक कार्रवाई के साथ इस मुद्दे पर तुरंत आई आर सी टी सी से इस संबंध में चर्चा के बाद ट्रेन सं. 12909/12910 बांद्रा टर्मिनस-हजरत निजामुद्दीन गरीब रथ एक्सप्रेस के लाइसेंसी ठेकेदार मेसर्स कृष्णा इंटरप्राइजेज पर एक लाख रु॰ का जुर्माना लगाया गया है।

पश्चिम रेलवे के मुख्य जनसम्पर्क अधिकारी श्री रविंद्र भाकर द्वारा जारी एक प्रेस विज्ञप्ति के अनुसार इस मुद्दे को गंभीरता से लेते हुए भारी जुर्माना लगाये जाने के अलावा आई आर सी टी सी के साथ ट्रेन के काँट्रेक्टर के अनुबंध को रद्द करने के लिए शो कॉज नोटिस भी जारी किया गया है।फॉलो-अप एक्शन के लिए एक टीम का गठन भी किया गया है जो बांद्रा टर्मिनस गरीब रथ एक्सप्रेस में कैटरिडग सेवा की गतिविधियों एवं ऑपरेशन की जाँच करेगा।

पश्चिम रेलवे पर ऐसी घटना को रोकने हेतु विभिन्न स्तरों पर निरंतर निगरानी की जा रही है, जिससे भविष्य में कभी इसकी पुनरावृत्ति न हो। इसके अतिरिक्त पश्चिम रेलवे की सभी ट्रेनों के पेंट्री कार/मिनी पेंट्री कारों की जाँच करने हेतु पाँच दिवसीय अभियान की शुरूआत भी की गई है जिसकी समीक्षा के आधार पर खानपान सेवाओं के सम्बंध में पाई गई कमियों को दूर किया जायेगा।

Catering Contractor of Garib Rath Express has been imposed fine of Rs.1 lakh – Western Railway clarifies on the video in circulation regarding storage of catering items in train toilet of Garib Rath Express

MUMBAI: Following a viral video of catering staff using toilet of Divyang coach of Garib Rath Train no 12909 Bandra T- Nizamuddin Express for storage of water bottles, cold drinks etc on 26th April, 2018, the matter was viewed very seriously and a fine of Rs 1 Lakh has been imposed on the contractor M/s Krishna Enterprises of Bandra Terminus – Nizamuddin Garib Rath Express after WR immediately took up the issue with IRCTC besides taking other remedial actions.

According to a press release issued by Shri Ravinder Bhakar- Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, besides levying heavy fine, a show cause notice has also been served to the contractor of the train for termination of the contract by IRCTC, taking the matter seriously. A team has also been deputed to check & verify the activities & operations of catering service in Bandra Terminus – Nizamuddin Garib Rath Express as a follow up action.

A strict watch is being kept at various levels to ensure that such incident doesn’t recur on WR in future. Further, a 5 days drive has been launched on WR to check Pantry/Mini Pantry in all trains on WR to review, report & rectify the deficiencies regarding catering services.