Member/OBD/RlyBd visits SER HQs and review the performance of Operating & Commercial deptts

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Mohanty reviewed the different aspects of railway operations and laid special emphasis on safety, punctuality, freight loading and earnings

Kolkata: Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, Member Operations & Business Development (OBD), Railway Board visited South Eastern Railway (SER) Headquarters, Garden Reach on Friday, 2nd July, 2021 and held high level meeting to review the performance of Operating and Commercial Departments of South Eastern Railway, Eastern Railway and South East Central Railway.

Satish P Dudhe, Principal Chief Commercial Manager, SER, Prabhas Dansana, Principal Chief Operations Manager, SER and other senior Traffic Officers were present in the meeting held with South Eastern Railway.

S. K. Mohanty reviewed the different aspects of railway operations and laid special emphasis on safety, punctuality, freight loading and earnings. He expressed satisfaction about the all round performance of SER and stressed on the timely completion of developmental works.

Detailed discussions were held on achieving the freight loading target in 2021-22, increasing the maximum permissible speed of freight trains, completion of new lines, doubling works, different traffic facility works etc.

Earlier, Prabhas Dansana, Principal Chief Operations Manager, South Eastern Railway apprised Member, Operations & Business Development, Railway Board about the achievements and key activities of SER in the year 2020-21.

In the last financial year i.e. 2020-21, SER loaded 175.8 million tonnes of freight which was the best ever loading performance of this railway since its trifurcation in 2003.

This remarkable loading performance was achieved despite the pandemic situation which affected the loading performance in the first quarter of last financial year.

In the current financial year, SER has loaded 48.28 million tonnes in the first quarter, an incremental growth of 16.94 million tonnes.

Dansana also stated that SER is taking all possible steps to achieve the freight loading target of 205 million tonnes fixed by Railway Board for the current financial year 2021-22.

Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, Member Operations & Business Development also held meetings with Eastern and South East Central Railway at SER HQs to review the performance of respective zones. U K Bal, Principal Chief Operations Manager, Eastern Railway, Soumitra Majumder, Principal Chief Commercial Manager, Eastern Railway and Chhatrasal Singh, Principal Chief Operations Manager, South East Central Railway and other senior officers were present.

Photo Caption: (above) Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, Member, Operations & Business Development, Railway Board holding high level Review Meeting with Satish P Dudhe, PCCM/SER and Prabhas Dansana, PCOM/SER at S E Railway Headquarters, Garden Reach on Friday, 02.07.2021.