Northern Railways’ general manager Ashutosh Gangal held a performance-review meeting with the departmental heads of Northern Railway and DRMs through video conferencing on Monday.
The prime topics of discussion pertained to safety, mobility enhancement, punctuality and other important projects. Since safety holds prime focus, the GM discussed numerous untoward incidents reported since past week.
Status of rail and weld fractures, level crossing gates, yard derailments and overhead equipment failures were discussed in detail.
“Sectional speed has been increased to 688.55 km and speed on loop lines has been increased to 30 kmph in 433.31 km portion till February 2022,” said railway officials.
