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Piyush Goyal calls upon Zonal Railway officials to work as team to achieve ambitious targets set by Railway Board

<span style="color: #222222;">Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal has called upon the Zonal Railway officials to work as a team to achieve ambitious targets set by Railway Board. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Chairing a high level review meeting with all General Managers of Zonal Railways, Production Units and Divisional Railway Managers, DRMs through Video Conferencing in New Delhi today, Mr Goyal expressed the view that collective effort will help to have a collective vision for Railways, a vision which would be all inclusive with collective wisdom and collective will. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' He indicated that a lot is required to be achieved which requires the active participation of all. The Minister exhorted all the officials to perform with full dynamism to transform Indian Railways into one of the best Railways in the world. Minister of State for Railways Suresh C. Angadi urged the Railway officials to work in the direction of transforming Indian Railways as the world class transporter. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' He directed the officials to ensure that Indian Railways reaches out to the poorest of the poor so that they may also travel by Rail. The Minister insisted that Safety, Cleanliness and hygiene in Railways should continue to be key focus areas. The agenda of the meeting was safety performance, punctuality, capacity enhancement and other various ongoing developmental projects in Indian Railways. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' While reviewing the performance of Zonal Railways during the current year so far, Chairman, Railway Board gave directions to General Managers for close monitoring of projects related to safety in train operations. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He emphasized on elimination of Manned Level crossings and construction of Road over Bridge/Road Under Bridges at a swift pace in each zone. He expressed his satisfaction on progress of elimination of Manned Level crossings in first two months of this financial year as compared to the corresponding period in previous year. <br />'' <br />'' Chairman Railway Board Vinod Kumar Yadav directed General Managers to enhance their efforts to further improve punctuality and minimize time loss in case of delayed trains. He stressed that Zonal Railways should plan safety and infrastructure works in a co-ordinated manner so that contiguous works are taken up together on a particular date or period so that the adverse impact on punctuality due to regulation of trains can be mitigated. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Action should also be taken for improving asset reliability. He urged all General Managers of Production Units of Indian Railways to work in full potential to meet the demand of rolling stock in a timely manner.</span><br />

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