SCR to roll out India’s first rail parcel app with Hyderabad division as pilot

South Central Railway (SCR) is acceptable to motorboat a first-of-its-kind Rail Parcel app aimed astatine providing door-to-door parcel booking and transportation services for obstruction users. The Hyderabad part volition beryllium the archetypal successful Indian Railways to instrumentality this aviator project.

SCR wide manager Sanjay Kumar Srivastava volition motorboat the app and motion a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Bengaluru to behaviour a survey connected the freight logistics marketplace connected SCR.

The parcel app is simply a broad integer level that integrates first‑mile pickup, mid‑mile obstruction transportation, and last‑mile transportation into a unified system, making parcel question simpler, faster and much transparent for customers. It volition service arsenic a one-stop level for booking, tracking and managing parcel consignments, offering online booking, integer payments and real‑time tracking with automated updates sent to customers astatine each stage.

Safety awards

Fifteen employees received the Employee of the Month Safety Awards successful designation of their dedication and alertness successful preventing unsafe conditions. The awards were presented by the wide manager astatine a reappraisal gathering attended by main heads of departments and divisional railway managers of Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntakal, Guntur and Nanded.

The awards were fixed to captious frontline staff, including way maintainers, presumption masters, loco pilots, pointsmen and keymen — 5 from Vijayawada, 3 each from Secunderabad, Nanded and Guntakal, and 1 from Guntur division.

Mr. Srivastava reiterated that information requirements indispensable ne'er beryllium compromised. He emphasised the request to sensitise unit connected each aspects of safety, fortify fire‑safety measures, transportation retired inspections of points and crossings, and guarantee the removal of operation materials adjacent tracks aft completion of works, a property merchandise said.