Indian Railways launches month-long mega safety drive from October 28; Here are the details

For Indian Railways (IR), safety continues to be the top priority and is accorded the greatest consideration. Ministry of Railways has ordered Zonal Railways to launch one month-long safety drive. It will start from today (28th October) to remove any gaps in the maintenance of locomotives, fixed assets, and rolling stock. During the mega safety drive, it will be ensured that actual procedures are being done and monitoring of human factors shall be taken care of.

Railway Board has directed all Zonal Railways to ensure that officers in headquarters and divisions carry out a detailed inspection and ensure the correction of deficiencies found during inspections within the drive. In each division, at least one headquarter officer must be on inspection every day during the safety drive. Additionally, a railway officer, in each major section of each division must be under Night Foot Plate Inspection. All sections of divisions are to be inspected by DRMs/ADRMs. The general health of fixed assets is to be examined, the ministry said on Friday.