Kolkata,
South Eastern Railway has emphasized on the massive developmental work in Railway infrastructure in spite of severe adverse situation being faced by the field workers and officers during lockdown in phases in the country since 25th March, 2020 and continuation of post COVID-19 pandemic period. The Civil Engineering Department of South Eastern Railway, taking it a challenge, has stepped up its entire network in all the four Divisions viz, Kharagpur, Adra, Chakradharpur and Ranchi and has done overall improvement of Railway infrastructure.
With the adoption of stringent measures in respect of strict observance of COVID-19 health protocols, the Engineering Department has intensified the maintenance of safety related works viz., track structure strengthening, track renewal, proper ballasting, regular checking of rail fractures, painting of rails, proper greasing etc. All the above works have been well attended and have achieved the target.
Apart from this, other works relating to improvement in reliability of track, raising of sectional speed, permanent restriction of speed, elimination of manned level crossings have been successfully completed by the Engineering Department during the month of December, 2020.
Consequently, there was no incident of accident from the engineering point of view taken place in the month of December. Incidents of rail fracture as well as weld failure have remained under control. The overall track failure upto the month of December, 2020 is 22 against 60 in comparison to corresponding period of last year which is less than 63% compared to the previous year. As a part of elimination of level crossings, South Eastern Railway has closed down 5 numbers of Manned level crossings (Bankura-Masagram section–3, Kharagpur-Tatanagar section-1 and Rourkela-Birmitrapur section-1) during the month of December, 2020, totaling 29 numbers of Manned level crossings closed during 2020-21.
During the month of December, 2020, two permanent speed restrictions have been removed and saving of 1.76 minutes have been achieved. Thus, 08 permanent speed restrictions have been removed and the total time saving is 7.91 minutes during 2020-21. The major routes are Midnapore-Kharagpur, Tatanagar-Jharsuguda etc.
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