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Gangmen are yet to get Rakshak
As large number of gangmen, who work in inhospitable conditions patrolling tracks and perform tasks at level-crossings, die every year in accidents.
Hyderabad: As large number of gangmen, who work in inhospitable conditions patrolling tracks and perform tasks at level-crossings, die every year in accidents.
The government in 2016-17 Railway Budget decided to introduce a safety device, a walkie-talkie Rakshak (train passing indicator).
This device was meant to provide alerts by way of LED indication along with a buzzer and vibration was to have been given to all gangmen.
But not even one per cent of the 25,000 gangmen working on SCR were given the safety equipment. It may be noted that trails were conducted in three blocks Ippaguda-Ghanpur, Naskal-Pindial and Ghanapur-Naskal in the Secunderabad-Kazipet section, but the instruments were not given.
Each handset costs Rs 10,000. A transmitter is placed in the Station Master’s room and an antenna is erected at a height of about 20 metres which is connected to the transmitter through RF cable.
The digital signal receiver ‘Rakshak’ will receive alerts every 20 seconds of approaching trains between two stations where he works.
The instrument is such that there is no way a gangman would miss the alert as he would be getting a visual in the form of an LED, buzzer which is audible and a vibration of the handset.
A senior railway official said that the pilot study was fruitful and the roll out would happen in the next financial year.
