- National Safety Video Conference of Indian Railway S&T Maintainers’ Union concluded
- The employees of Signal and Telecom Department will definitely get Risk and Hardship allowance: AM (Signal) and (Telecom) ( L/A)
New delhi. On 29.09.2020, a “National Safety Video Conference” was organized on by “Indian Railways S& T Maintainers’ Union” (IRSTMU) in which 602 S&T staffs from all the zones and divisions of Indian Railways across the country participated. Honorable AM (Signal) and AM (Tele) (L/A) Mr. Rajiv Sharma Sir was the Chief Guest of this virtual conference. He addressed the conference for about an hour and with the entire process of making Indian Railways state of the art with Artificial Intelligence. Giving complete information about the state-of-the-art equipment that has been installed and being installed across the country, Shri Sharma sir said that 2000 stations have been equipped with electronic interlocking in Indian Railways till now. Giving detailed information about where the Central Traffic Traffic Control System (CTS) is going to be installed in the coming future. The trains will run automatically in the coming time and the drivers will only sit and monitor. A new era for S&T department will start very soon.
Alok Chandra Prakash, general secretary of the Indian Railways S&T Maintainers’ Union, said that on November 28, 2018, Shri Rajiv Sharma Sir resumed the post of AM (SIGNAL) and on the same day he issued a letter to all zones of Indian Railways seeking details for grant of risk and hardship allowance to the signal and telecom employees. Further the honorable AM (Signal) and (Tele) Shri Rajiv Sharma Sir informed that the employees of Signal and Telecom Department will definitely get risk and hardship allowance. Naveen Kumar, National President of IRSTMU thanked the honorable AM (Signal) and (Tele) Shri Rajiv Sharma Sir for connecting with the employees working at the ground level through video conferencing.