General Manager North Central Railway (NCR) and North Eastern Railway (NER) Vinay Kumar Tripathi held a review meeting to monitor progress of works related to Mission Raftaar on Saturday.
The meeting was attended by Additional GM NCR, concerned Principal Heads of Departments (PHoDs) besides the Divisional Railway Managers of Agra and Prayagraj.
PHODs from Electrical, Engineering, signal and telecom and Mechanical branches presented detailed planning of work for speed raising along with timeline for execution of different activities.
The raising of sectional speed to 160 kmph is called Mission Raftaar. The first two routes where works are on are Howrah- New Delhi via Dhanbad and Mumbai New Delhi via Kota, Mathura.
Under this project on NCR, Ghaziabad-Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Jn. section of Prayagraj division on New Delhi- Howrah route and Palwal-Mathura section of Agra division on New Delhi-Mumbai route are being upgraded.
The estimated expenditure is Rs 2437.30 Crores and Rs. 393.51 Crores respectively.
These works envisage large scale employment generation in the state of Uttar Pradesh with input of approximately Rs 2830 Crores over the next two years.
Reviewing progress of these works, the NCR GM directed officials to flag all issues requiring assistance from entities such as Railway Board, and RDSO so as to completion of works within the specified target of FY23.
He felt that each important work be assigned specific milestones and progress of each milestone be monitored for timely completion.
Works
Important works required in existing routes to make it fit for 160 KMPH operation include:-
modification in OHE and power supply arrangement;
strengthening of track structure specially in point and crossing zones and improved ballast cushion;
construction of boundary wall;
provision of improved signaling including train collision avoidance system (TCAS);
provision of way side rolling stock monitoring systems such as HAHW [Hot Axle Hot Wheel Detector], WILD [Wheel Impact Load Detector] and OMRS [Online Monitoring of Rolling Stock System].