Railways conduct full-scale safety mock drill at Kollam Junction railway station

The Thiruvananthapuram Division of the Southern Railway conducted a full-scale information mock drill jointly with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) connected Saturday (November 15, 2025) arsenic portion of its efforts to fortify exigency preparedness, inter-departmental coordination, and rider safety.

The workout simulated a real-time exigency script involving a bid astatine Kollam Junction railway presumption gait and mobilised each departments including operating, mechanical, electrical, awesome and telecommunication, medical, Railway Protection Force, and commercialized wings of the division. The NDRF and the State authorities departments specified arsenic the Fire and Rescue Services, Police, Health, and Revenue besides actively participated, ensuring seamless associated effect capabilities.

The mock drill was designed to fortify catastrophe effect capabilities and supply hands-on grooming for managing bid accidents done a realistic scenario. The exercise, nether the supervision of Lalit Kumar Mansukhani, main main information officer, Southern Railway, simulated aggregate exigency situations, including the derailment and capsizing of rider coaches, extinguishing occurrence successful a rider coach, and ensuring the speedy and harmless evacuation of passengers.

It besides progressive crane operations for rerailing and de-capsizing coaches, shifting of injured passengers, and handling fatalities with owed protocol. The drill further evaluated the businesslike question of unaffected passengers, the operationalisation of assistance desks astatine the mishap tract and astatine adjoining large stations, and the accelerated deployment of telecommunication systems.

All participating units responded promptly arsenic per protocol. Rescue teams executed evacuation swiftly, aesculapian teams provided archetypal assistance and life-saving attraction successful the mishap alleviation trainand transported mock-casualties to designated aesculapian points, and method teams restored the way and instrumentality wrong stipulated timelines. Divisional railway manager Divyakant Chandrakar, on with elder officers, monitored the full cognition from the mishap site.  Full-fledged mock drills play a important relation successful ensuring that each teams are trained, equipped, and acceptable to grip immoderate exigency concern with precision and coordination.