<span style="color: #222222;">Railways has executed long pending maintenance work on bridges and tracks during the lockdown period to improve safety and operational efficiency. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Railway Ministry said, apart from ensuring supply chains of all essential commodities running through parcel trains and freight trains, Railways has executed these long pending maintenance projects. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Around 500 modern heavy duty Track Maintenance Machines along with track, signal and Overhead Equipment maintainers have worked regularly to complete overdue track maintenance of over 12 thousand kilometre plain track and over five thousand number of Turn outs.<br />'' <br />'' <br />'' Centre rejects report that employees will have to work from 9 AM to 7 PM<br />'' <br />''<br />''Central government has rejected the report that its employees will have to work from 9 AM to 7 PM. In a tweet, Press Information Bureau said the claim was false . It clarified that the government has not taken any such decision and also there is no such proposal under consideration.</span>