General Manager of Western Railway Ashok Kumar Mishra felicitated 16 employees from the six divisions of WR for their outstanding work which resulted in safe train working at WR Headquarters, Mumbai. These employees were awarded in appreciation of their alertness in duty and contribution towards averting untoward incidents, during the month of July 2023 and thereby ensuring the safety of train operations. Out of the 16 employees, 4 each were from Vadodara & Bhavnagar division, 3 from Mumbai Central Division, 2 each were from Ratlam, & Rajkot Division, and 01 from Ahmedabad Division. The meeting was attended by Additional General Manager and Principal Head of Departments (PHODs) while the Divisional Railway Managers of all Divisions attended the meeting through video conferencing.According to a press release issued by Sumit Thakur, Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, Shri Misra appreciated the alertness of the staff who were being awarded and mentioned that they are exemplary role models for everyone to emulate. The employees awarded showed their great zeal and commitment towards safe running of trains in various areas of safety such as detection of rail & track fracture, hairline crack in wheel, emergency brakes applied to save untoward incident, resetting the Alarm Chain Pulling under very difficult condition over a Bridge, hot axles and detection of brake binding or dangling object in passing train, as well as saving passengers from falling in gap of train & platform, while trying to board moving train.
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