Central Railway, General Manager, held a Joint Committee Meeting at Central Railway Headquarters to review the implementation of an action plan for reduction of death and injury due to unusual incidents on Central Railway. The members of the joint committee consist of Principal Heads of Departments of Engineering, Safety, Signal and Telecommunication, Security Departments of Railways and Transport Commissioner of Maharashtra Government.
“Mission Zero Death” was launched by Railways to control death and injury due to unusual incidents like trespassing, falling down, hitting against poles etc. In this regard, the Joint committee reviewed the progress of implementation of the Action plan formulated by Divisions under the guidance of Anil Kumar Lahoti, General Manager, Central Railway. Divisional Railway Managers of all the divisions presented the efforts taken, results achieved and future course of action to reduce further the death or injury due to trespass, falling down etc.
The action plan also includes the construction of boundary walls, fencing between the track at stations, more FOBs/Subways and escalators, awareness campaign, behavioural methods to influence the psyche of trespassers, innovative methods of providing hooters at vulnerable locations etc. The number of such unusual cases has also dropped drastically as compared to year on year.
The Transport Commissioner of Maharashtra Government has also assured all assistance from State Government agencies or departments concerned will be to take up any project in the pursuit of the above goal of reduction of death of the public.
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