The East Coast Railway Engineers’ Association (ECoREA) has urged General Manager, Divisional Managers, Chief Workshop Manager of Mancheswar and principal heads of all technical departments in connection with a “special safety and passenger amenities drive”. In a notice, it has been indicated that the drive would start from July 4 and could continue indefinitely.
For this, association general secretary BP Dash said, a decision was taken at the All India Railway Engineers’ Federation’s central executive committee meeting. Though there is an acute shortage of manpower and materials, railway engineers (junior engineers and senior section engineers) put more than 100% efforts for safe journey of 23 million passengers daily, he said.
Association president Bobin Mohanty said the railway engineers would henceforth work as per availability of manpower and materials without compromising on safety.
AIREF president Sanjib Kumar said all railway zonal and production units would observe this drive. He warned that railway engineers would not be responsible for any loss in the future due to this drive.