{"id":456,"date":"2019-09-12T22:14:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=456"},"modified":"2019-09-12T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:44:05","slug":"vulnerable-locations-on-tracks-to-be-identified-and-defects-rectified-on-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable locations on tracks to be identified and defects rectified on priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Allahabad:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0On 27th November 2017, a safety meeting<\/strong>\u00a0was held in the office of General Manager, North Central Railway in the Vindhya Conference Hall,\u00a0<strong>Chaired by GM\/NCR M. C. Chauhan.<\/strong>\u00a0Present at the meeting were all the PHODs\/HODs of NCR and the DRMs of the three Divisions of NCR &#8211; Allahabad, Agra and Jhansi, who participated via video conferencing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting began with the officers keeping silence for two minutes for those who lost their lives in the unfortunate derailment of Vasco D&#8217;Gama Express in Manikpur in the early morning of 24th of November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starting the proceedings of the meeting,\u00a0<strong>GM\/NCR M. C. Chauhan<\/strong>\u00a0said that the accident at Manikpur was most unfortunate and each one of us should introspect and take all necessary measures to avoid such incidents. He said that there is a need for intensive inspection by officials to find out the shortcomings and take immediate corrective measures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It was decided at the meeting that:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1.<\/strong>\u00a0GPS based trackers would be provided to all patrolmen and would also be affixed on all inspection trolleys in the next 15 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0Vulnerable locations on tracks prone to rail fractures-with corroded rails, night soil accumulations and\/or throwing garbage &#8211; will be identified and rails at such locations will be changed on priority if found to be corroded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3.<\/strong>\u00a0RCC walls will be constructed in such locations to deter garbage throwing\/defecation on track, and stray cattle coming on tracks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>4.<\/strong>\u00a0Night inspections at all levels of officials, right from inspectors to Chief Engineer-level officers will be intensified. Officers going on inspections will immediately report any safety-related shortcomings to the control, which will immediately be conveyed to the concerned officer(s) who will ensure that the same are got rectified immediately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>5.<\/strong>\u00a0Adequate availability of ballast on tracks to be ensured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>6.<\/strong>\u00a0Deep Screening of Ballast on \u2018A\u2019 route will be given priority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>7.<\/strong>\u00a0Patrolling will be intensified and surprise checks will be done to cross-check if there was any lapse in patrolling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>8.<\/strong>\u00a0Drive will be launched to improve the skill of welders in order to reduce weld-failures in rails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>9.\u00a0<\/strong>All major rail bridges will be provided with footpaths for maintenance workers who work on such bridges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>10.<\/strong>\u00a0All work being done on tracks will be done only after ensuring that proper protection of worksite and workers is done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of the discussion, all present resolved to do their very best to pre-empt and prevent mishaps\/accidents on the system of NCR. The meeting ended with the release of \u2018Jagrukata\u2019, the safety bulletin of NCR for the months of July-September-2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad:\u00a0On 27th November 2017, a safety meeting\u00a0was held in the office of General Manager, North&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koo_publish_custom_meta":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GM-NCR.jpe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}