MADURAI, April 29, 2015

“Responsibilities of railway officers and employees have gone up”

Special Correspondent

 

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Southern Railway Chief Signal and Telecommunications Engineer A.V. Sivaprasad handing over an award to an employee at the Railway Week Celebration in Madurai on Tuesday. Additional Divisional Railway Manager, RVB Babu, (left) and Divisional Railway Manager Sunil Kumar Garg,(second from right), are also seen.— Photo: R. Ashok

With the Prime Minister’s Office monitoring the punctuality of running of trains on a daily basis, the responsibility of railway officers and men in maintaining the systems to ensure higher reliability has gone up, Southern Railway Chief Signal and Telecommunications Engineer, A.V. Sivaprasad, said.

Giving away awards to 160 staff from his department from Tiruchi, Thiruvananthapuram and Madurai railway divisions, here on Tuesday, he said improved reliability on signal and telecommunication equipment would improve speed and safety of trains.

Divisional Railway Manager Sunil Kumar Garg said unmanned and manned level crossings were potential areas for accidents. He said replacement of those level crossings with sub-ways or road over bridges would ensure safety of running trains.

He said that the role of signal and telecommunications officers and employees was significant in maintenance of sophisticated equipment and also in installation of those equipment in the on-going work of track doubling between Tiruchi and Dindigul railway sations.

Additional Divsional Railway Manager, R.V.B. Babu felicitated the awardees. Among those who were present are Senior Divisional Signal and Telecommunications Engineer, L.N.Sivanath Babu (Madurai), A. Kalyan Kumar, Prema Chandra Harijan (Thiruvananthapuram) and Divisional Signal and Telecommunications Engineer, Madurai, A.Janardhanan.