East Central Railway General Manager Anupam Sharma reviewed the various activities organized at ECR headquarters under Swachhta Pakhwada in a meeting held in the auditorium of Hajipur headquarters on Friday. In this sequence, the GM also honoured the winning participants of various cleanliness competitions organized during the Swachhta Pakhwada. He said maintaining cleanliness should be included in our daily routine. He said that Indian Railways is very sensitive towards clean environment, as a result of which the carbon emission of Indian Railways is much less than any other transport system.
The GM directed the officers, especially the young officers, to acquire proficiency on environment and related subjects and said that the officers should enhance their knowledge in this subject by doing PG/Diploma/short term courses etc. All the points should be included in the DPR to be prepared for the works in the railway project keeping in view the environmental clearance. The officers should be ready to serve the society more by acquiring additional knowledge and try to imbibe the pledge taken during the Swachhta Pakhwada, so that they can set an ideal in the society as the representative of Indian Railways.
The GM directed that the work done during the Swachhta Pakhwada should be carried out throughout the year, so that the cleanliness level in the Railways is not only maintained, but better standards can be established in this direction. The General Manager shared the information related to environment during his statement as well as directed all the officers of ECR for training related to environment from reputed institutes of Railways like IRIMEE, IRITM, IRICEN, IRIEEN. He also advised to reduce the noise pollution in the Railways.
In the clean office competition, the administration, mechanical and personnel offices were selected for the first, second and third place respectively by the GM. Along with this, the participants who got the first three positions in the essay/painting competition were also rewarded by him. Additional General Manager Ashok Kumar and all Heads of Departments were present during the function.
It may be noted that as per the instructions of Railway Board, Swachhta Pakhwada is being celebrated in ECR from 16 September to 02 October. In this sequence, a clean office competition was organized on 29.09.2021 under the supervision of Nitin Kumar, Deputy General Manager (General), in which all the departments of the headquarters were surveyed and ranked by the designated officers. On 30.09.2021, in the presence of Chief Mechanical Engineer, Ashok Kumar Mishra, essay/painting competition was organized by the Environment Department in the context of cleanliness fortnight in which children of railway workers wrote essays on cleanliness theme and through painting. Amazing awareness about the environment was seen among the children.