SME Times News Bureau | 04 Jul, 2015
Calling for special emphasis on safety and security of the
passengers with focus on passenger amenities, Railway Board chairman A.K. Mital
on Friday instructed carrying on more field inspections for the purpose.
Mital, who held a high-level meeting with various officials of the South
Eastern Railway (SER) at its headquarters here to review and evaluate its
performance, stressed on adherence to safety norms by all railwaymen in the
field and instructed that more field inspections by officers should be carried
out specially during night time.
He also stressed on the speedy completion of various pending SER projects.
Discussions relating to other aspects like safety, punctuality, freight
loading, earnings, critical capacity enhancement projects, mobility, asset
failures were also held.
SER general manager Radhey Shyam claimed punctuality of trains has improved in
the first three months of the current fiscal as compared to the corresponding
period of last year.