Merchants’ plea to Southern Railway

MADURAI, MAY 24: 

Tamil Nadu Foodgrains Merchants Association has urged that the Durranto Express train service operated weekly between Madurai and Chennai Central, be converted into a daily service for the benefit of passengers.

A delegation from the association led by its President S. P. Jeyaprakasam, accompanied by Dindigul Parliament Constituency Member N. S. V.Chitthan, met the General Manager of Southern Railway Rakesh Misra in Chennai recently, and submitted a memorandum.

It said the service has gained patronage but needs more awareness among the public, and urged that the service be converted into a daily service for the benefit of passengers with modern coaches and amenities.

Source - Business Line

Infrastructure at rail workshop in Mysore being ramped up

The infrastructure at the Central Railway Workshop in Mysore city is being ramped up for undertaking the periodic overhauling and maintenance of Linke Holfmann Busch (LHB) coaches that constitute the rakes of the Shatabdi and the Rajdhani trains.

This is part of the capacity building of the railway workshops across the country as the Indian Railways plans to substitute the conventional Integral Coach Factory-designed coaches with the German technology-based LHB coaches for most Indian trains in the long run.

“The Mysore workshop has been upgraded to handle the LHB coaches and 29 such coaches have been overhauled here since October 2012. The workshop’s installed capacity at present is to take up maintenance of eight LHB coaches a month or 96 coaches a year. This is in addition to the periodic overhauling and maintenance of 70 ICF-designed coaches a month, of which 10 will be AC coaches. The workshop also takes up intermediate overhauling of 40 coaches a month,” Mr. U. Subba Rao, chief workshop manager, said.

Though the LHB coaches are expensive (One LHB coach costs about Rs. 1.8 crore while an for an ICF coach costs Rs. 65 lakh), they are found to be more efficient and capable of higher speeds ranging from 160 kmph to 200 kmph and reckoned to be safer while providing greater ride comfort.

The LHB coaches at present are air-conditioned, the Railways has designed non-AC LHB coaches as well and they will supplant the conventional ICF coaches in future, according to Mr. Subba Rao.

V. Suresh, senior section engineer, Bogie Repair Shop, said there were nearly 100 LHB coaches operating out of the Bangalore Railway Division but as Bangalore does not have a railway workshop, infrastructure had been put in place at the Central Workshop at Ashokapuram here for coach maintenance.

“The load will be shared between the Mysore and the Hubli workshops, and we have presented a proposal for capacity upgrading,” Mr. Rao added.

Machinery

The staff here have designed a hydraulic press, reckoned to be the most important machinery for coach maintenance. While a few testing equipment have been procured, there are other requirements such as a surface traverser for shifting coaches, which costs around Rs. 3.5 crore, he said. A proposal has been submitted for the construction of a new building at a cost of Rs. 5 crore.

Conventional ICF coaches require periodic overhauling once every 18 months against once in 72 months for LHB coaches. The workshop staff have been sent for training at Lower Parel in Mumbai and at the Jagadhri workshop in Haryana where they have been working on LHB coaches for almost 10 years, according to Mr. Rao.

The Rail Coach Factory at Kapurthala, Punjab, manufactured 460 LHB coaches last year and the ICF at Perambur, Tamil Nadu, was scaling up the LHB production. The new factory established at Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, was exclusively meant for the production of LHB coaches, Mr. Rao added.

Source - The Hindu

Special Class Raiway Apprentices Examination 2013- Result of Written Examination Declared

On the basis of the result of the written part of the Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination, 2013 held by the U.P.S.C. in January, 2013, the candidates with the under mentioned Roll Numbers have qualified for Interview/Personality Test.

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The candidature of these candidates is PROVISIONAL subject to their being found eligible in all respects. The candidates would be required to produce the original certificates in support of their claims relating to age, educational qualifications, community, physical disability etc. at the time of the Personality Test. They are, therefore, advised to keep the said certificates ready and check before hand the requirement of certificates in accordance with the important instructions available on the website of the Commission before appearance in the PT boards.

In accordance with the Rules of examination, all these candidates are required to fill up the Detailed Application Form (D.A.F.), which is available on the Commission’s Website http://www.upsc.gov.in and submit the same ONLINE. The DAF will be available on the website of the Commission up to 06.06.2013 till 11.59 PM. Important instructions regarding filling up of the DAF and submitting the same ONLINE to the Commission are also available on the website. The candidates who have been declared successful have to first get themselves registered on the relevant page of the website before filling up the ONLINE Detailed Application Form. The qualified candidates are further advised to refer to the Rules of the Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination, 2013 published in the gazette of India, dated 13.10.2012, which are also available on the website of the Commission.

After submitting the DAF duly filled in ONLINE, the candidates are required to take out a printout of the finally submitted DAF separately and will have to send the printed copy of the DAF, duly signed by the candidates, along with all relevant documents, to the Under Secretary (SCRA), Union Public Service Commission, Dholpur House, ShahjahanRoad, New Delhi-110069, so as to reach the Commission’s Office latest by 10.06.2013. The envelope containing the printout of the DAF submitted ONLINE should be superscribed “DAF for Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination, 2013”. It can also be delivered at UPSC by hand till 10.06.2013 (5.00 P.M.). In the event of non-receipt of ink singed copy of the DAF, the candidature will be cancelled without any further notice.

The candidates are also required to bring the printed copy of the DAF duly signed (by the candidate) along with original documents and a photocopy each thereof at the time of Interview. The instructions for filling up DAF available on the Website along with the Rules of the Special Class Railway Apprentices’ Examination, 2013, must be read carefully with regard to the certificates that are to be produced at the time of Interview. The candidate will be solely responsible for not producing sufficient valid proof in support of his/her age, date of birth, educational qualifications, caste (SC/ST/OBC) and Physically disability status.

Interviews of candidates who have qualified for the Personality Test are likely to be held in the month of July, 2013. The exact date of interview will, however, be intimated to the candidates through Interview Letter/e-mail. Roll Number-wise Interview Schedule will also be made available on Commission’s Website in due course.

No request for change in the date and time of Personality Test intimated to the candidates will be entertained under any circumstances.

The mark-sheets of candidates who have not qualified, will be put on the Commission’s Website within 15 days from the date of publication of the final result (after conducting Personality Test) and will remain available on the Website for a period of 60 days.

The candidates can access the marks-sheets after keying in their Roll Numbers and date of birth. The printed/hard copies of the marks-sheet would, however, be issued by UPSC to candidates based on specific request accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope. Candidates desirous of obtaining printed/hard copies of the marks sheets should make the request within thirty days of the display of the marks on the Commission’s Website, beyond which such requests would not be entertained.

The result will also be available on the U.P.S.C.’s Website http://www.upsc.gov.in.

Union Public Service Commission has a Facilitation Counter at its campus. Candidate may obtain any information/clarification regarding their examination/result on working days between 10.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M in person or over telephone Nos.(011)-23385271/23381125/23098543 from this counter.

SOURCE - (Release ID :96165)

स्‍पेशल क्‍लास रेलवे अप्रेंटिसेज परीक्षा, 2013 के लिखित भाग के परिणाम

संघ लोक सेवा आयोग द्वारा जनवरी, 2013 में आयोजित

स्‍पेशल क्‍लास रेलवे अप्रेंटिसेज परीक्षा, 2013 के लिखित भाग के परिणाम

 के आधार पर, निम्नलिखित अनुक्रमांक वाले उम्मीदवारों ने

साक्षात्कार/व्यक्तित्व परीक्षण के लिए अर्हता प्राप्त कर ली है । 

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