Deliberating on signalling in Railways

South Central Railways (SCR) hosted the ‘All India Conference of Signal & Telecom Engineers’ at Rail Nilayam in Secunderabad on Sunday. Director General, Signal & Telecom Akhil Agarwal addressed the gathering, which deliberated on issues concerning signalling and telecommunication on the Indian Railways and formulated plans to enhance asset reliability.

Calling for stringent measures and sustained practices towards ensuring quality of signalling works, the Director General stated that safety shall remain the prime consideration for the wing, as the same contributes towards reliability of service.

He focused on meeting the targeted schedules for Signalling works all over and advised that funds shall be utilised to ensure completion without delay. Stressing on the need to analyse causes for Signalling failure, Agrawal dwelt on the reasons that go into it and sought that every effort be made to negate the same.

N Kasinath, Additional Member, (Signal) Railway Board conducted the proceedings of the Conference and highlighted the critical aspects of Signalling that are to be critically discussed and an action plan envisaged.

SK Goel, Executive Director, Signal (Projects); Shobhan Chaudhuri, Executive Director (Tele); Sunil Gupta, Executive Director (Mobility, S&T) from Railway Board were present. Chief Signal & Telecom Engineers of all Zones attended the conference. SCR was represented by MS Mahaboob Ali, Chief Signal & Telecom Engineer.