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November 2017
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Railway Minister Piyush Goyal (The Total Investment & Insurance
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Stressing on
the need for total safety management, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal wants to
take the Indian Railways towards 'zero accident regime'. Goyal reiterated his
agenda during a recent roundtable discussion with Japanese delegation that
visited India as part of the memorandum of cooperation (MoC) signed between the
two countries.
Responding
to Ministry of Railway’s request, Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism (MLIT) deputed a team of their Railway experts to assess
incidents of rail breakage and suggest measures to improve safety in train
operations. The MoC envisages cooperation in Rail Safety on area such as
maintenance of Track, including welding, rail inspection, and track circuit and
rolling stock maintenance.
The Railways
is also asked to give highest priority to passenger safety. The Ministry has
directed all staff of Railway Protection Force (RPF) and traveling ticket
examiners (TTEs) to be in proper uniform while on duty for bringing
transparency. Taking cognisance of the Rahul Singh death case,
the Railways has warned RPF not to check tickets, which is function of TTEs.
"Only Ticket Checkers (TCs) or Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) can check
tickers from passengers at railway station and in trains," the Railways
has said in a notification.
Last month,
the Ministry appointed a five member Committee consisting of senior officials
to improve safety of staff and workers, working on Railway worksites,
especially tracks.
The Railways
is also working towards, 'Mission Electrification', a strategic shift to
undertake electrification of complete railway network at a rapid pace.
"Indian Railways is working with a renewed attitude and confidence. The
mindset of Indian Railways has changed. Indian Railways is working with 'will
do/can do' spirit, for the government, development is a positive agenda. Indian
Railways is working in a mission mode and coming up with solutions to the
problems. Indian Railways is working with a commitment to serve in a time bound
manner for the common people. For the common people, Railways is the preferred
mode of transport and 13 lakh Railwaymen have dedicated themselves to serve
with commitment. We are working in time bound manner, skillfully, effectively
to transform Indian Railways truly to a world class, safe and modern
transporter," Goyal had said while speaking at the International
Conference on Green Initiatives & Railway Electrification.
Interestingly,
the Railways is also using social media, especially Twitter for effective
communication as well as for business. In September, when Amul asked the Railways
about providing it a refrigerated parcel van to transport butter across the
country, the Ministry immediately responded. The Railway Ministry’s Twitter
handle @RailMinIndia replied, “IR will be utterly butterly delighted to get the
taste of India to every Indian.” On 11 November, the first refrigerator van
with 17 metric tonnes of Amul butter was flagged off from Palanpur to Delhi.
Several times, it is found
that commuters going outstation are clueless about the status of their running
train, especially if it is running on time or delayed. To overcome this issue,
the Railways has started SMS facility from 3 November 2017, with trains like
Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Tejas and Gatiman covered in initial phase. All passengers
who have booked tickets in these trains will receive an SMS giving status of
trains that are running late. Passengers would receive these SMS throughout
their journey on their mobile numbers given at the time of booking the ticket
both for e-ticket and PRS (counter) ticket.The
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