Railway Board holds high-level review meeting with Zonal Railways GMs, DRMs

New Delhi: Minister of State of Railway Suresh C. Angadi, Chairman, Railway Board Vinod Kumar Yadav along with other Railway Board members held a video conference meeting with all General Managers of Zonal Railways and Divisional Railway Managers on performance till August.

The issue covered issues of safety, punctuality, freight loading, passenger traffic, infrastructure projects, locomotive and coach production and other ongoing developmental projects in Indian Railways.

Angadi complimented the officers for the excellent performance of Zones and Divisions in August 2019 and gave directions to work towards further improving safety, punctuality, cleanliness and upkeep of stations and trains and passenger comfort so as to meet the expectations of the people.

Angadi emphasized that all officials of Indian Railways should work as a team to achieve the goals and targets in a time-bound manner for advancement of Indian Railways and the country.

While reviewing the detail performance of Zonal Railways during the current year the Chairman, Railway Board, Vinod Kumar Yadav gave directions to General Managers for close monitoring of projects related to ensuring safety in train operations.

Yadav emphasized on expeditious completion of safety works like elimination of Manned Level crossings and construction of Road over Bridge, interlocking of heavy Manned level Crossings, elimination of old mechanical signalling by electronic signalling etc. Yadav also congratulated the Zones for good progress on elimination of Manned Level crossings (MLC) which is a major safety improvement initiative.