The East Coast Railway Engineers’ Association (ECoREA) celebrated 50th Engineers Day to commemorate the birthday of Bharat Ratna M Visvesvaraya at the Rail Vihar here on Friday.
A symposium on “Safe Indian Railways: Expectations and Challenges” was conducted in the evening. Additional General Manager of ECoR Rajeev Sharma, who joined as chief guest, inaugurated the programme.
Chief Project Director of Railway Electrification NK Mohanty, Chief Track Engineer of ECoR S Nayak and Chief Workshop Manager of Mancheswar workshop MK Poddar were guests of honour. National president of All India Railway engineers Federation (AIREF) Sanjib Kumar presided.
ECoREA secretary BP Dash welcomed the guests and initiated the symposium highlighting the ned for railway safety. National president Er Sanjib Kumar opined that punctuality should not overrule safety and viewed for sufficient maintenance blocks.
MK Poddar viewed that safety must get paramount importance. S Nayak said that the recent railway accidents must be taken as a challenge. NK Mohanty stressed the need of better human resources management.
Chief guest Sharma discussed various technical aspects for improved signaling systems, compared various technologies being adopted in developed countries with those being adopted in Indian Railways and stressed the need for technological developments for a safer Indian Railways.
Earlier, a blood donation camp was organised which was inaugurated by State BJP president Basanta Kumar Panda.