The Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop set itself as the most productive workshop on Indian Railways by achieving an increase of 53 per cent Periodic Overhauling (POH) outturn during 2015-16 which is highest over the last three years. Apart from this, the workshop has also achieved 37.5 per cent growth in Intermediate Overhauling during the period.
Apart from this, Mancheswar workshop has given best ever performances in various fields like corrosion outturn, coach refurbishment, BMBC conversion, provision of lED based Tail lamp in SlR coaches, provision of laptop and mobile charging points in coaches and provision of lED based emergency lights, augmentation of Bio-toilets in coaches etc, said Chief Workshop Manager of unit SK Pankaj .
Informing about the achievements, Pankaj said that this is the only workshop to have 5S Certification only with ISO-9001:2008, ISO14001:2004 and OHSAS18001:2007 Certificates.
Mancheswar Workshop has also achieved the distinction of becoming the most productive workshop over the Indian Railways during 2015-16 because of Manpower Productivity Ratio. The workshop has started POH and IOH of lHB coaches in a big way and has now become capable to take full load of East Coast Railway. At present, ECoR has 187 lHB coaches running in Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express, Purushottam Express and Puri-Howrah Shatabdi Express including Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Duronto Express Which has lHB shell with air suspension ICF Bogie. A total of 186 lHB coaches have been already overhauled by the Mancheswar unit.
The ECoR has augmented 1,712 Bio-toilets in 569 coaches over its jurisdiction. The Mancheswar workshop is developing a Bacteria Generation Plant of capacity 27,000 ltrs per month. It is expected that this plant will be fully functional by December. Now, all the coaches of Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram, Bhubaneswar-Puduchery, Bhubaneswar-Tirupati, Bhubaneswar-Pune, Visakhapatnam-lTT, Visakhapatnam-Gandhidham, Puri-Okha, Visakhapatnam-Amritsar Hirakud Express and Visakhapatnam-Durg Passenger are fitted with Bio-toilets and these are running as Green Train. The Mancheswar Workshop is now also planning to march towards the conservation of energy and reducing Green House effect by utilising solar power system to save electricity.
The workshop is conducting skill development courses to local youth specially ITI and Diploma holders from various institutions. 1,863 ITI and Diploma holders have already been imparted training related to welding, painting and operation of various machines installed inside workshop. In addition, 200 students from nine Government engineering colleges and 27 private engineering colleges are being provided 01 month Summer Training Programme. These students prepare projects related to Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering.