GUWAHATI: On the eve of International Women's Day, the Northeast Frontier (NF) Railway has grow to be the primary railway zone in the country to have interaction an all-woman group of technicians for repairs of rail coaches. It will start serving the railways with a brand new role from Thursday.
Chief public relations officer of the NF Railway, PJ Sharma said that with the rise in the collection of trains running from the Guwahati railway station, the all-women group of technicians will look after the upkeep and cleaning of incoming coaches in the pit line repairs facility
"It's a big day for the NF Railway. Today, we have commissioned an all-woman maintenance gang at Guwahati railway station, on the eve of International Women's Day - to be celebrated on Thursday. Indian railways have got woman drivers, and railway stations entirely maintained by women, but it's heartening that the Northeast Frontier Railway has entrusted the 20 women selected for the technician's team with the responsibility of fully maintaining the coaches, including safety aspects," said Sharma.
The Coach Maintenance Depot, Guwahati, has a coach-holding capability of about 1,300. Its operations are spread throughout Kamakhya, Paltan Bazaar and New Guwahati, with a complete of six pit strains and two in poor health strains comprising a group of workers of about 1,000 technicians.
Maintenance paintings at the ever-busy pit strains has been predominantly in the male area. Workload in all three shifts calls for the group of workers to go inside the dockpits. Women technicians, until now, were most commonly engaged in ancillary repairs works of the coaches, related to curtains repair and indication forums portray.
"To cater to the need for increasing maintenance capacity of the pit line in Guwahati, a project was taken up in the month of February to develop the maintenance gang with only women staff. Twenty women of technician grade were selected and were given classroom training on the various concepts of maintenance involved in a train in pit lines. After the theoretical training, the batch was given hands-on practical training at pit line with the existing technicians. Special focus has been given on the safety checking aspects of the trains," said Sharma.
Chief public relations officer of the NF Railway, PJ Sharma said that with the rise in the collection of trains running from the Guwahati railway station, the all-women group of technicians will look after the upkeep and cleaning of incoming coaches in the pit line repairs facility
"It's a big day for the NF Railway. Today, we have commissioned an all-woman maintenance gang at Guwahati railway station, on the eve of International Women's Day - to be celebrated on Thursday. Indian railways have got woman drivers, and railway stations entirely maintained by women, but it's heartening that the Northeast Frontier Railway has entrusted the 20 women selected for the technician's team with the responsibility of fully maintaining the coaches, including safety aspects," said Sharma.
The Coach Maintenance Depot, Guwahati, has a coach-holding capability of about 1,300. Its operations are spread throughout Kamakhya, Paltan Bazaar and New Guwahati, with a complete of six pit strains and two in poor health strains comprising a group of workers of about 1,000 technicians.
Maintenance paintings at the ever-busy pit strains has been predominantly in the male area. Workload in all three shifts calls for the group of workers to go inside the dockpits. Women technicians, until now, were most commonly engaged in ancillary repairs works of the coaches, related to curtains repair and indication forums portray.
"To cater to the need for increasing maintenance capacity of the pit line in Guwahati, a project was taken up in the month of February to develop the maintenance gang with only women staff. Twenty women of technician grade were selected and were given classroom training on the various concepts of maintenance involved in a train in pit lines. After the theoretical training, the batch was given hands-on practical training at pit line with the existing technicians. Special focus has been given on the safety checking aspects of the trains," said Sharma.
International Women's Day 2018: In a first, NF Railway engages all-woman maintenance staff
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