Competition for 635 Station Development has been launched

‘SRIJAN’ (Station Rejuvenation Initiative through Joint ActioN)

The winner for logo competition will get a cash prize of Rs 75,000/-and for tagline also will get Rs 75,000. The last date of submission of entries is 26th March 2018

IRSDC extends an open invitation for developing concept and master plans for redevelopment of stations firms & professionals interested in Station Development

Allahabad: Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited (IRSDC) is taking up redevelopment of around 600 major Railway stations across the country. In this mega exercise, assistance and involvement of all stakeholders i.e. railway passengers, urban planners, architects, engineers are important. Towards this objective of stakeholders’ consultation, an idea competition for development of 635 stations on Indian Railways, ‘SRIJAN’ (Station Rejuvenation through Joint ActioN) has been launched at MyGov portal since 26.01.2018.

The last date for submission of entries in this competition is 26.03.2018. The winners will get certificates and worthy ideas will be incorporated in the designs.

IRSDC has also launched competition through Mygov portal for IRSDC logo and tagline. The winner for logo competition will get a cash prize of Rs 75,000/-and for tagline also will get Rs 75,000. The last date of submission of entries is 26.3.18.

IRSDC has carried out one round of empanelment and 11 firms have been empanelled in A, B, and C category. However, for more number of architectural firms required to simultaneously work on all stations, hence second round of Request for Empanelment (RFE) is already called which will be a continuous exercise henceforth.

Further, for all professionals, an open invitation for developing concept and master plans for redevelopment of stations has been given at the website https://www.irsdc.com/images/Invitation%20Concept%20Plan%20120218.pdf. The last date for submission for their interests for stations is now 09.03.18. An ‘Architect-Samvad’ has been planned to be held shortly in March’18 in which Minister of Railways shall also interact with architects to discuss strategy to take the program forward.

The first round of International Design Competition for three stations i.e. Gwalior, Nagpur, and Bayappanhalli has been completed and the second stage will be completed by 31.03.2018. After the same, Engineering Procurement Contract  (EPC) tenders for these stations will be called. For five stations, i.e. Chandigarh, Anand Vihar (Delhi), Secundrabad, Bangalore and Pune, tenders for Integrated Station Management through private parties has been called. Through these contracts, integrated management of stations will be done through private parties. Tenders for the redevelopment of Chandigarh, Anand Vihar, Bijwasan and Surat stations are expected in March’18.

Safety Meeting held at NCR Headquarters: GM/NCR advises special vigilance

Allahabad: On Thursday, 1st March 2018, a safety meeting was held in the Office of GM/NCR in the Vindhya Conference Hall, Chaired by GM/NCR M. C. Chauhan. Present in the meeting were all the PHODs/HODs of NCR and the DRMs of the three Divisions of NCR-Allahabad, Agra, and Jhansi, who participated via video conferencing.

The meeting began with a discussion on unusual incidents which took place in the month of February. GM/NCR advised that all such incidents should be analyzed in depth and deficiencies (if any) should be rectified under advice to all the divisions so that similar incidents in other divisions could be pre-empted and avoided.

GM advised that even though rail-fractures had declined considerably due to better maintenance and strict monitoring, yet there is no room for complacency in this sphere. He further advised that special attention should be given to packing under Switch Expansion Joints (SEJs) so as to prevent failure of the same.

GM advised that special vigilance should be exercised to ensure alertness of staff, especially running staff, in view of the festival of Holi. He also said that during the Holi week, there was a chance of increase in cases of Alarm Chain Pulling (ACP), which also has to be guarded against.It was decided in the meeting that patrolling would continue in those sections where rail-fractures had been observed (October-onwards)-even after a change of season as well as in those sections where speed restrictions had been imposed due to corrosion in rails.

It was decided that such sections would be treated as ‘Vulnerable’, and would be given special attention. CSO/NCR advised that it should be ensured that no goods trains are run with invalid BPC. GM advised that alertness of staff on stations and trains standing in loop lines at stations should be given special attention and should be specially monitored by officers &senior supervisors going on inspection.

Completing maintenance blocks in stipulated time period, reducing incidents of signal failures, reducing cases of cattle run over by pinpointing block sections where maximum cases of CRO are taking place and deploying personnel to check the same, and the elimination of Unmanned Level Crossings (UMLCs) as per the target, within the current financial year, were the other important safety related-subjects that came up for discussion.

Apart from these, GM/NCR complimented the divisions for completing the installation of 6.5MWp of solar power plants over NCR and emphasized that the remaining 3.5MWp should be completed before 15th March. He also advised that solar power should be used to give electricity to homes of railway staff in remote locations which are prone to power outages.