8,000 women part of SCR workforce; six head important wings

Around 8,000 women employees are moving successful the South Central Railway (SCR), handling captious roles specified arsenic loco pilots, way maintainers and bid managers. While balancing household responsibilities and nonrecreational duties, these women person been achieving large success, said Principal Chief Personnel Officer Siddharth Kati connected Wednesday.

He was speaking astatine the International Women’s Day celebrations held astatine Rail Nilayam, wherever SCR wide manager Sanjay Kumar Srivastava presented awards to outstanding women employees from assorted departments for 2025-26. Prizes were besides fixed to winners of elocution and essay-writing competitions.

Mr. Srivastava said the taxable for this twelvemonth is ‘Give to Gain’ and emphasised that acquisition remains the astir almighty instrumentality for empowerment. “It is simply a substance of large pridefulness for SCR that cardinal departments of the portion — Operating, Commercial, Security, Finance and Medical — arsenic good arsenic the Guntur Division are presently headed by susceptible women officers,” helium said.

Mr. Kati has informed that assorted facilities person been provided for women employees to registry immoderate workplace complaints similar ‘she portal’ and ‘shine app’. “We indispensable guarantee a harmless and blessed enactment situation for women”, helium said.

Top women officers — Commissioner of Railway Safety Madhavi, Principal Chief Operations Manager K. Padmaja, Principal Chief Security Commissioner Aroma Singh Thakur, Principal Financial Adviser Hema Suneeta, Principal Chief Medical Director Nirmala Rajaram, Principal Chief Commercial Manager Ity Pandey, Guntur Divisional Railway Manager Sudeshna Sen — besides addressed the gathering.

They encouraged women to put successful their health, fiscal stability, to ne'er springiness up and to ne'er beryllium acrophobic to talk up for themselves. Cultural programmes by students of Railway mixed precocious schoolhouse on with Kuchipudi creation show by women employees were performed connected the occasion, said a property release.

Inaugural run

The inaugural tally of Train No. 05674 Kokrajhar – Cherlapalli Amrit Bharat play explicit volition depart from Kokrajhar astatine 2.30 p.m. connected March 13 and get successful Cherlapalli astatine 8.30 americium connected March 15. It volition halt astatine Gossaigaon Hat, New Alipurduar, New Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri Road, New Jalpaiguri, Aluabari Road, Kishanganj, Barsoi, Malda Town, Rampur Hat, Bolpur S Niktn, Dankuni, Andul, Kharagpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur K Road, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Khurda Road, Balugaon, Berhampur, Palasa, Srikakulam Road, Vizianagaram, Pendurti, Duvvada, Samalkot, Rajahmundry, Tanuku, Bhimavaram Town, Gudivada, Vijayawada, Guntur and Nalgonda. The regular work bid timings volition beryllium notified successful owed course, said a property release.