Railway Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw helds meeting with GM, South Eastern Railway & East Coast Railway

Sri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister for Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, held a high level review meeting with Ms. Archana Joshi, General Manager, South Eastern Railway & East Coast Railway at Jharsuguda on 8th November, 2021). 

  • Sri Suresh Pujari, Hon’ble MP, Bargarh, Sri Navin Gangdev, Hon’ble MP, Sambalpur, Sri Nauri Nayak, Hon’ble MLA, Rangali, Smt. Kusum Tete, Hon’ble MLA, Sundargarh, Sri Shankar Oram, Hon’ble MLA, Birmitrapur, Sri Jainarayan Mishra, Hon’ble MLA, Sambalpur, Sri Ravi Nayak, Hon’ble Ex MLA, Kuchinda and Smt. Radharani Panda, Hon’ble Ex MLA, Brajarajnagar were present in the meeting and interacted with Hon’ble Railway Minister. 
  • Principal Officers of South Eastern Railway, East Coast Railway and South East Central Railway also attended the meeting.
  • Various issues pertaining to infrastructural development works of railways in Odisha, specially in Jharsuguda area were elaborately discussed in the meeting.  
  • During the discussion, Hon’ble Railway Minister has also given importance o­n safety issues and suggested several measures to improve the passenger amenities over SER’s jurisdiction.  
  • Hon’ble Minister also laid stress o­n timely completion of all o­ngoing railway projects.

Electronic Interlocking System:

  • Sri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister for Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, inspected Jharsuguda Electronic Interlocking System along with Ms. Archana Joshi, General Manager, SER & ECoR and other senior officials during his 2nd day visit to Jharsuguda.
  • The Railway Minister has also inspected Jharsuguda station today morning and suggested several Passenger Amenity measures.

Recent Update:

Ms. Archana Joshi, General Manager, South Eastern Railway visited Adra Division on 27.10.2021 to inspect different stations and review the progress of o­ngoing works in the division. During the day-long inspection, the General Manager visited Chandrakona Road, Bishnupur, Bankura and Adra stations and inspected the different passenger amenities available at the station. 

  • The General Manager instructed the Divisional Officers to take all necessary steps for further development of passenger facilities. 
  • Shri Manish Kumar, Divisional Railway Manager, Adra, senior Officers of SER Headquarters and Divisional Officers of Adra were present during the inspection.
  • During her visit to Chandrakona Road station, the General Manager inaugurated a Children’s Park, a Staff Grievance Redressal Camp and Renovated Overhead Equipment (OHE) Depot.
  • The General Manager inspected Electronic Interlocking Room, Upper Class Waiting Room and Dormitory at Bishnupur station and also inaugurated a Renovated Reserved Lounge at the station.
  • During her visit to Bankura, General Manager conducted a detailed inspection of station premises, food stalls, Upper class Waiting Rooms, train lighting office and coal sidings.She stressed o­n taking all efforts to increase coal loading from the Division.
  • Ms. Joshi during her visit to Divisional Headquarters at Adra, inaugurated a Health Card Distribution Scheme for Licensed Porters and inspected Crew Lobby and Running Room.

Source: South Eastern Railway-Press Release