CHENNAI: Nine
Southern Railway
employees, who played key roles in ensuring passenger safety, crackdown on smuggling of contraband, converting MEMU trains and the like, have been selected for Ati Vishisht Rail Seva
Puraskar
– 2023. This is the highest honour for a railway employee.
The award will be presented at the 68th Railway Week Central Function to be held at New Delhi on December 15 by railway minister
Ashwini Vaishnaw
, ministers of state for railway Raosaheb Patil Danve and Darshana Jardosh.
Southern Railway has won the overall commercial efficiency and the overall safety shield with East Coast Railway and North East Frontier Railway.
The employees who will get the awards from Southern Railway are : Track maintainer K Veeraperumal who found a weld failure on the tracks and showed a red hand signal and stopped the approaching Boat Mail Express at Manamadurai; loco pilot M K Sudheesh Kumar who saved an elephant standing in the middle of a track on Walayar-Kanjikode section by slamming the emergency brakes of No 22837 Hatia – ErnakulamJn AC Express; deputy chief ticket inspector T Selvakumar who detected fraudulent use of Aadhaar cards to transfer of tickets and misuse of senior citizen quote for lower berths; RPF inspector Deshidi Madhusudhan Reddy who arrested 117 people for stealing copper cables, arrested seven people for smuggling 10.7g gold, arrested 15 people for smuggling 189kg ganja and arrested six people for having Rs 1.10crore unaccounted cash; senior section engineer A Selvaraja who modified 3-phase MEMU motor coaches into steam heritage locomotives; chief nursing superintendent Durgadevi Vijayakumar for her service in intensive care unit of Perambur Railway Hospital for 26 years; senior divisional commercial manager E Hari Krishnan who marketed and operated the first Bharat Gaurav train; senior divisional engineer S Mayileri who played a key role in speed enhancement of Arakkonam-Renigunta and Arakkonam-Jolarpet sections to 130kmph and did emergency repair of arch bridge; and assistant signal & telecommunication engineer S Mariappan who installed, tested and commissioned electronic interlocking and equipment to detect track occupancy to speed up operations.
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