RAILWAY SAMACHAR

Tripathi Ji,

General mood of the people at zonal railways specially in the Signal & Telecommunications dept is low due to lack of motivation and lack of training in upgrading their technology skills. People in zonal railways think Railway Board should take immediate steps to correct the situation. This is something you can translate and publish this in Hindi version of Railway Samachar.

Problems and Issues Facing

By Signal & Telecom Dept.

This is to bring to your attention that S&T Dept of almost 16 zonal railways have following major issues ( partial list, this is just begining) :

1. Lack of thorough understanding of how new Interlocking applications are designed.

2. Engineers in S&T dept lack expertise to develop strong requirement specifications and do not have thorough verification & validation methods. According to major contractors or vendors, they think Indian Railways Engineers do not communicate clearly their expectations and this results in poor deliverable. Vendors or contractors also think that this major reason why projects are delayed and costing Indian Railway huge amount of money for simple modifications to design specification, verification and validation activities.

3. Engineers in S&T Dept are quiting Indian Railway to join private sector, one reason could be better pay, chance to work in better technology and training opportunities

We all know that S&T (Signaling and Telecommunication) is an important backbone of Indian Railways. Railway Board should recognize that people are the major assets and thorough emphasis should be placed on productivity improvements and what tools or technologies people need to make them successful which will ultimately benefit Indian Railways in upgrading its technology tool set.

Railway Board should pay attention to safety.

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Regards,

Dr. Tapan Kumar Roy (Phd)

Singur, West Bengal