Mumbai: Central Railway GM conducts surprise check of suburban trains

The newlyappointed Central Railway general manager Ram Karan Yadav on Wednesday conducted a surprise inspection of Mumbai suburban network trains officers said reported the PTIRam Karan Yadav also travelled in a secondclass coach between Thane and Dadar stations in Mumbai and interacted with passengers without disclosing his identityA railway spokesperson told PTI that Ram Karan Yadav first travelled to Thane station from CSMT on a motorman cab of a Kasarabound fast local at around 830 amCentral Railway GM Ram Karan Yadav a 1986 batch Indian Railways Service of Engineers IRSE officer took over as the new General Manager of Central Railway on Friday as per a release issued by the Central RailwayThe GM inspected cleanliness at Thane station along with other facilities and crowd management He interacted with the Railway Protection Force RPF and Government Railway Police GRP personnelAfter alighting at Dadar station the general manager reviewed security arrangements help desk and other arrangements in view of the huge rush of followers of Dr B R Ambedkar on the occasion of Mahaparinirvan Din on December 6Meanwhile on Friday as the original planner of multimodal integration of CR stations Ram Karan Yadav took charge as its General Manager of Central RailwayYadav was instrumental in building Dadar stationrsquos widest footover bridge FOB integrating Ghatkopar station with the Mumbai Metro station and remodelling Thane Kalyan and CSMT ldquoAs chief project director station development on CR Yadav was involved in the development of the intermodal station at Ajni Nagpur the integration of Metro station at Ghatkopar remodelling of Thane Kalyan and CSMT and monetisation of Railway land at Matunga stationrdquo a CR spokesperson saidYadav received the General Managerrsquos award in 1999 for excellent planning and execution of the 12meterwide FOB with PSC girders at Dadar station Earlier as general manager of Urban Transport at Rail India Technical and Economic Service RITES Yadav carried out a feasibility study of the Elevated Corridor along WR suburban line and also worked as an independent safety officer in the execution of the Mumbai Metro OneAs chief administrative officer construction on WR he was responsible for the highestever commissioning of new lines gauge conversions and doubling on WR in a year Work on the sixth line between Khar and Borivli picked up pace during his tenure and work on station development at Udhna Sabarmati and Bhuj also commencedWhile working as divisional railway manager at Bhusawal he conducted one of the biggest encroachment removal drives on Indian Railways in 2018 with 17000 multidisciplinary staff removing over 3000 houses hutmentpucca houses and approximately 350 shops reclaiming over 120 acres of Railway landwith PTI inputs