To commemorate the running of the first train in the country between Boribander and Thane, Indian Railways celebrate the Railway Week every year. Northern Railway celebrated its 57th Railway Week of 10th April to 16th April on 10th April 2012. at Baroda House, New Delhi.
Speaking on the occasion, the General Manager lauded the various achievements of the zone in core functional areas As a committed partner in the Indian Railways growth, Northern Railway has witnessed animprovement of 0.81% in its operating ratio while the freight traffic have shown an increase of 4.4% and the passenger earning have increased by 8.3% as compared to last year. This performance becomes more impressive if it is viewed in the background of the fact that Northern Railway faced natural calamities like heavy floods in Ambala Division during the monsoon and heavy fog for nearly two months in almost the entire North zone during winter, which severely hampered work at all levels. Also Northern Railway was at the receiving end of various rail-roko agitations which threw train operations out of gear for several days in different spells during the year.
On the safety front there has been 73% reduction in accidents at unmanned level crossing gates due to massive public awareness campaign. During 2011-12, Northern Railway has manned 111 level crossing gates as compared to 65 last year. This has been the highest achievement in a year. In addition 139 unmanned level crossing gates were eliminated during the period. .Northern Railway is continuously working to completely eliminate unmanned level crossing gates which are 1510 in number.
In the year gone by, several new services were introduced which included the flagging off of the weekly ‘Janmabhoomi Express’, the ‘Matribhhoomi’, Duronto and a Shatabdi Express train.
The ceremony started with felicitation of 148 railway employees for their meritorious services, by Shri B.N.Rajasekhar, General Manager, Northern Railway.. Ambala Division was awarded the Best Division Shieldfor its over all performance. The Best Improved Division Shield was bagged by Delhi Division The Commercial Shield for showing best performance in Cleanliness, Courtesy, Reservation, Catering, Ticket Checking was bagged by Ambala Division.Moradabad Division bagged the Rajbhasha shield for best performance in Hindi. The Safety shield for overall performance in Safety was shared between Moradabad & Ambala Divisions. Delhi Division bagged the shields for both Best Maintained Divisional Hospital and for efficiency and economical maintenance of Electric Locomotives Traction distribution and Energy conservation.Shield for performance in Coaching and Freight Stock Maintenance & various other running shields were also given on the occasion.
Present on the occasion were Shri B. P.Gupta, Additional General Manager, Shri Suresh Kumar Seth, Chief Personnel Officer, other senior Railway Officials and Railway employees of Northern Railway.General Manager, Northern Railway exhorted Railway staff to express their solidarity and dynamism through team spirit to propel the zone to achieve still greater heights in the financial year 2012-13.
