ECR GM holds sports committee meeting
ECR GM Lalit Chandra Trivedi chaired the East Central Railway Sports Association’s Annual General Meeting on March 19. In the meeting, cricket, kabaddi, wrestling, football and other sports activities including promotion and future strategies of East Central Railway Sports Association were discussed in detail. On this occasion, the GM said that they have to be always striving for the development of sports. He expressed happiness over the identification of ECR in the field of sports at the national and international level by the players of ECR. It is to be noted that Indian Railways has played a special role in the development of sports. In this series, ECR women footballers Ashalata Devi, Sanju Yadav, Anju Tamang have made the ECR proud by representing the international football team. Also, other players of ECR have excelled in their respective fields. As a further achievement, three players of ECR participated in the 65th Senior Men's Free Style Wrestling Competition held in Noida recently in which Deepak won Bronze medal in 66 kg freestyle.
ECR to run 3 pairs of Holi Special trains
Keeping in mind the huge rush of passengers on Holi festival, 04050/04049 Anand Vihar Terminus- Kamakhya-Anand Vihar Terminus, 04519/04520 Kolkata-Nangal Dam-Kolkata and 04221/04222 Lucknow- Kolkata-Lucknow Additional Holi Special trains will be operated. These Holi special trains will halt at Patna, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Jn, Dhanbad, Hajipur and other stations of East Central Railway. All its coaches will be of reserved category and the passengers traveling by this train will have to follow the guidelines issued by the government for protection from Covid-19. It should be noted that apart from this, four pairs of super fast Holi Special Express train will also be operated between New Delhi-Barauni, Anandvihar Terminal-Gaya, Anand Vihar Terminal-Patna and Anand Vihar Terminal-Jogbani, which has been reported.
ECR works for passenger amenities, beautification
East Central Railway is continuously working in the area of passenger amenities. In this episode, every basic facilities including cleanliness on trains and stations are monitored continuously. Taking an innovative step, the work related to beautification using railway scraps is also being completed at regular intervals. The tracks are being renovated under the mission speed. During this time, along with the tracks, sleepers are also being replaced to ensure fast and protected rail operations. According to a plan, all the old sleepers will be used for fencing around the tracks. Also, these sleepers will be used in construction of boundary wall at various railway enclaves etc. ECR constantly monitors the trains and station premises to maintain cleanliness. In this sequence, 42 pre-fabricated toilets based on pay-and-use system are planned to be installed. This will help in maintaining cleanliness.
Orientation at PAS Bokaro
The Pentecostal Assembly School welcomed its new batch of students for PREP on March 19th 2021& Prep onwards on March 20th. The parents of the students were called for the Orientation Programme .The founders of this institution Director D N Prasad and Chief Academic Officer, Rita Prasad began the programme with a prayer. Principal, Dr. Karuna Prasad welcomed all the parents into the PAS family and introduced them to the team of Primary teachers. She emphasized the rapidly changing scene of Education; the radical changes from Offline to Online mode in the pandemic and the need for the parents and school to work together to build the future of the child. The parents were then divided into small groups and all information regarding the school, the awards, certificates, exam patterns were given to them in detail in the classrooms. Most importantly, parents were oriented with the use of technology. They accessed the Google Classroom and learnt how to navigate through it.