GM Northern Railway holds meeting with departmental heads, review overall performance

New Delhi: Shobhan Chaudhuri, General Manager Northern Railway held a performance review meeting with the departmental heads of Northern Railway and DRMs at Baroda house, NR headquarters office.
The GM emphasized that Safety is the main concern over Railways, for which all out efforts should be directed towards maintaining the tracks, rolling stock, signaling and electric overhead wires are working in top order.
He directed the departments to regularly conduct training and refresher courses for the staff to keep them motivated and informed of the working of the system to minimize human error.
The General Manager reviewed the progress of enhancement of passenger amenities work and projects of Doubling& New lines and instructed the concerned officials to expedite the work.
He advised all divisions to take all nassaccary remedial actions to proper & efficient working of signaling system, while he showed his concern on rail fractures and instructed that monitoring of signals, rail fractures and rail welds should be done extensively and no error should be left.
He also instructed to expedite approvals for tree cutting wherever needed from the Forest Department so that these do not pose a threat to the tracks or OHE wires, and emphasized on focusing on electrical safety on tracks as well as safety in relay and panel rooms for error free movement of trains.
The GM also instructed the department heads and DRMs, to maintain the punctuality and keep pace for freight loading with safety as priority.