Sixteen Employees Of Western Railway Felicitated With General Manager’s Safety Award

Ashok Kumar Misra - General Manager of Western Railway felicitated 16 employees from the six divisions of WR for their outstanding work which resulted in safe train working. These employees were awarded in appreciation of their alertness in duty and contribution towards averting untoward incidents, during the months of September & October 2022 and thereby ensuring the safety of train operations. Out of the 16 employees, 5 are from Ratlam Division, 3 from Ahmedabad & Bhavnagar Divisions each, 2 from Mumbai Central and Vadodara Divisions each and 1 from Rajkot Division. The meeting was attended by the Principal Head of Departments (PHODs) while the Divisional Railway Managers of all Divisions attended the meeting through video conferencing.

According to a press release issued by Sumit Thakur – Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, Misra appreciated the alertness of the staff who were being awarded and mentioned that they are exemplary role models for everyone to emulate. The employees awarded showed their great zeal and commitment towards safe running of trains in various areas of safety such as detection of rail & track fracture, hairline crack in wheel, emergency brakes applied to save untoward incident, detection of brake binding & sparkling in wheel, hot axles and timely informing about spark & smoke in passing train. Western Railway is proud of all the awardee employees who with their prompt action and alertness helped to avert the possibility of any untoward incidence.