Principal Chief Safety Officer of South East Central Railway, Pradeep Kumar, conducted the safety audit of Hatia – Muri section of Ranchi Railway Division on the first day under his two-day inter-railway safety audit on Thursday. On this occasion, ADRM Manish Kumar and Branch Officer and Chief Electrical Loco Engineer of South East Central Railway Piyush Gupta, Chief Passenger Transport Manager Basant Kumar Sharma, Chief Signal Engineer Gaurav Singh, Chief Mechanical Engineer (D&DM) SC Chaudhary and other officers were present.
The inspection was started by the Principal Chief Safety Officer from Ranchi Railway Station. In the inspection, first of all, a detailed inspection of level crossing gate number MH-1 on Silli-Muri railway section was done. At Muri railway station, the facilities available for the crew and guard in the crew lobby and running room such as air-conditioned room for living, vegetarian and non-vegetarian kitchen and toilet and bathroom arrangements were inspected, along with this all the registers and complaint book of the running room were also inspected.
After this, inspection of curve number-32 on Gautamdhara-Gangaghat railway section. Detailed inspection of station and yard points and crossings was done at Tatisilve station and detailed inspection of level crossing gate number MH-20 and traction sub-station under the station was done. Thereafter, the inspection team inspected bridge number 369 on Tatisilve-Namkum railway section and bridge number 378 on Namkum-Ranchi railway section.
The PCSO appreciated the efforts being made for safety at Ranchi Railway Division and expressed satisfaction and gave necessary guidelines for improvement wherever required. He also urged all the officers and employees to always remain alert towards safety in rail operations.
During the inspection, Ranchi Railway Division's Sr DE (Coordination) Ramesh Singh, Sr DOM Shreya Singh, Sr DEE (Traction) Anand Lawrence, Sr DS and TE Neeraj Panchal, Sr DSO N. Srinivasan, other branch officers and other officers and employees were present.