Carriage repair workshop in Odisha capital scales new heights

Ayaskant Das Published On : Apr 2, 2016 at 9:34 PM

Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Apr 2:

Mancheswar carriage repair workshop of East Coast Railway (ECoR) in Odisha capital scales new heights in production over Indian Railways and sets itself as the most productive workshop on Indian Railways by achieving an increase of 53% periodic Overhauling (POH) outturn during 2015-16 which is highest over the last three years. Apart from this, the workshop has also achieved 37.5% growth in Intermediate Overhauling during the period.

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Apart from this, Mancheswar workshop has given best ever performances in various fields like corrosion outturn, coach refurbishment, BMBC conversion, provision of LED based Tail Lamp in SLR Coaches, provision of Laptop and Mobile Charging Points in Coaches & provision of LED based Emergency lights, augmentation of Bio-toilets in coaches etc. said S. K. Pankaj, Chief Workshop Manager of Mancheswar Carriage Repair Workshop. Informing about the achievements, Pankaj said that this is the only Workshop on Indian Railways to have 5S Certification only with ISO-9001:2008, ISO14001:2004 & OHSAS18001:2007 Certificates.

Mancheswar Workshop has also achieved the distinction of becoming the most productive workshop over Indian Railways during 2015-16 because of Manpower Productivity Ratio 1.75 only that means 1.75% Manpower per out turn of a coach. Apart from this, Mancheswar Workshop has started POH & IOH of LHB coaches in a big way has now become capable to take full load of East Coast Railway. At present, ECoR has 187 LHB coaches running in Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express, Purushottam Express & Puri-Howrah Shatabdi Express including Bhubaneswar–New Delhi Duronto Express Which has LHB shell with air suspension ICF Bogie. A total of 186 LHB coaches have been already overhauled by Mancheswar Workshop.

Marching towards the Green Railways, East Coast Railway has augmented 1712 Bio-toilets in 569 Coaches over it’s jurisdiction. Mancheswar Workshop is developing a Bacteria Generation Plant of capacity 27000 ltrs per month. It is expected that this bacteria Generation Plant will be fully functional by December 2016. Now, all the coaches of Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram, Bhubaneswar-Puduchery, Bhubaneswar-Tirupati, Bhubaneswar-Pune, Visakhapatnam-LTT, Visakhapatnam-Gandhidham, Puri-Okha, Visakhapatnam-Amritsar Hirakud Express and Visakhapatnam-Durg Passenger are fitted with Bio-toilets and these are running as Green Train.Apart from this, Mancheswar Workshop is now also planning to march towards the conservation of Energy and reducing Green House effect by utilising Solar Power System to save electricity.

These apart, Mancheswar workshop is conducting skill development courses to local youth specially ITI & diploma holders from various Institutions. 1863 ITI & diploma holders have already been imparted training related to welding, painting & operation of various machines installed inside workshop. In addition, 200 students from 09 government engineering colleges & 27 Private engineering colleges are being provided 01 month summer training programme at Mancheswar workshop. These students prepared projects related to Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Civil Engineering.