Record freight loading by S. E. Railway in financial year 2018-19
Photo Caption: P. S. Mishra, General Manager, South Eastern Railway speaking at the Sensitization Workshop at South Eastern Railway Headquarters, Garden Reach to spread the awareness on the working environment of differently abled employees in railways.
SER loaded a record of 10,073 wagons which helped to achieve the best ever loading performance of all time
Kolkata: Under the leadeship of General Manager P. S. Mishra, South Eastern Railway has achieved record freight loading of around 155 million tonnes in the financial year 2018-19, which has just concluded, as against 150.76 million tonnes loaded in the previous year thus registering a growth of 4.24 million tonnes i.e. 2.81%.
In the month of March 2019, SER loaded 14.77 million tonnes as against 13.85 million tonnes loaded in the month of March 2018. This is the highest ever freight loading of SER achieved in a single month.
On 31st March 2019, SER loaded a record of 10,073 wagons which helped to achieve the best ever loading performance of all time. All the four Divisions viz. Adra, Kharagpur, Chakradharpur, and Ranchi performed remarkably well in the freight sector which helped this railway to register ever highest loading.
S.E.Railway organizes sensitization workshop
Kolkata: A sensitization workshop under the aegis of Staff Benefit Fund of S E Railway was organized at this railway’s headquarters, Garden Reach on 27th March 2019 to spread awareness on the working environment of differently abled employees in railways.
P. S. Mishra, General Manager, South Eastern Railway, Principal Head of Departments along with other senior railway officers and staff attended in the workshop. Sri Mishra said that S E Railway is very amicable and susceptible to the differently abled employees with enhancement of their skills, empowerment, and rights.
The main objective of organizing this kind of sensitization workshop is to make the differently abled employees feel that they are also the integral part of this railway’s active workforce and they can take the leading role in all working spheres at par with other employees for strengthening this railway’s great manpower.
This is the unique day-long workshop being organized in Indian Railways in association with Youth4jobs Foundation.
Heritage walk at headquarters of S. E. Railway at Garden Reach
Kolkata: South Eastern Railway organized Heritage Walk at its headquarters, Garden Reach on 30th March in association with Ministry of External Affairs, as a part of Railway Board’s initiative to create awareness about the preservation of the rich heritage of railways. Many foreign dignitaries viz. Consul Generals of USA, France, Germany, Myanmar, Thailand, and Dy. High Commissioner of Australia and high officials of other institutions took part in this Heritage Walk.
Photo Caption: Heritage Walk organized at S E Railway headquarters, Garden Reach. Dignitaries from many foreign embassies were present.
P. S. Mishra, General Manager, S E Railway welcomed the foreign dignitaries and apprised them of the glorious heritage of S E Railway and its installations. Shri J.K. Saha, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer, S E Railway spoke about the origin of S E Railway and its importance in Indian Railway system. A large number of heritage enthusiasts and other officers & staff of S E Railway were also present.
Haldia, Dantan & Tamluk stations of S.E.Railway now have free Wi-Fi facility
Kolkata: RailTel Corporation of India Ltd., a PSU under Ministry of Railways, has successfully turned 3 more railways stations of South Eastern Railways into free Wi-Fi Zone The newly commissioned stations are Haldia, Dantan and Tamluk. Now 14 stations of South Eastern Railways have free Wi-Fi. The Wi-fi at the stations has proved to be a boon for the passengers and in the month of February 2019 a total number of 539121user logins and 217.18TB aggregated data consumptions have been recorded in the stations of South Eastern Railways.
Wi-Fi services to passengers are being provided under ‘RailWire’- the retail Broadband initiative of RailTel. Designed to offer users the best Internet experience, RailWire Wi-Fi will be available to any user who has a smartphone with a working mobile connection for KYC considerations.
Pan India RailTel has successfully completed work of turning 1050 railways stations across the country into Free Wi-Fi zone. With a vision of turning Railway stations into a platform for Digital inclusion, RailTel Corporation of India Ltd, a Mini Ratna CPSU under the Ministry of Railways, started providing high-speed Wi-Fi service at railway stations. The journey started in January 2016 from Mumbai Central station in Maharashtra being the first station to have the fast & free RailWire Wi-Fi and in a span of mere 2 years 3 months RailTel has completed 1050 stations. In the month of February 2019, the total number of unique users of station Wi-Fi across the country was 11577141 and aggregated data consumption was 9065.27 TB.
RailTel has provided high-speed Wi-Fi at 414 A, A1 and C category stations, associating Google as the Technology partner for Radio Access, while using the RailTel backbone for broadband connectivity. RailTel has already completed work of providing Wi-Fi at 200 stations with the support of Universal Service Obligatory Fund of GoI and in 436 stations with own/other funding.
RailTel envisages expanding the network in more stations in the near future. Recently RailTel has roped in Tata Trust for providing Wi-Fi at remaining 4791 B, C, D and E category stations across the country. These stations will have free high-speed RailWire Wi-Fi by RailTel by the end of this year. Once completed all Railway stations (except the halt stations) of Indian Railways will have fast & free RailWire Wi-Fi. These are very small stations catering to mainly rural/low population density areas.
There is a visible digital divide between Rural and Urban India and rural populations are deprived of state-of-the-art telecom infrastructure availability as private operators often find it hard due to CAPEX involved. Easy and low-cost availability of Smartphones in the market provides the rural population with low-cost access device but lack of infrastructure becomes a hindrance for them to access high-speed internet. With high-speed Wi-Fi services available at Railway stations of these rural areas now Railway stations will be turned into a hub for digital growth for rural India.
Talking about the Wi-Fi at the stations of South Eastern Railway, Sri P.S. Mishra, GM/SER, said “South Eastern Railways is an important zone of Indian Railways. Wi-Fi at 14 stations of this zone is proving to be really helpful for the passengers.’
To use the Wi-Fi, the user has to switch on the Wi-Fi mode in the smartphone and select the RailWire Wi-Fi network. After the RailWire homepage network automatically appears on the smartphone, the user has to enter his or her mobile number on this homepage. The user will get a one-time password (OTP) in the form of SMS in the message box which has to be entered in the home page of RailWire. After entering OTP, users will be able to access high-speed internet & can start internet browsing.