Bhubaneswar: The railway electrification (RE) office in Bhubaneswar has been shifted to Bangalore for its new assigned works in Karnataka, as part of reorganisation of the Central Organisation of Railway Electrification (CORE) of Indian Railways.
Under the drive, chief project directors (CPD) of jurisdiction of railway electrification units in different parts of the country are being merged and transferred. In the process, some project works have been transferred to units that are viable from administrative and technical point of view. Similarly, some projects are to be merged and the set ups of CPD shifted as their works have been completed.
Works assigned to RE/Bhubaneswar for electrification of Azimganj-New Farakka line in Bengal have been shifted to Danapur in Bihar for better monitoring of ongoing projects, there.
Similarly, assigned works for RE/Secunderabad have been shifted to RE/Chennai for better monitoring of ongoing works. Apart from this, RE Establishment at New Jalpaigudi has been shifted to Guwahati.
In view of the above, restructuring is being done for better monitoring of the projects.
Railway electrification units in Bhubaneswar and Kolkata are to be closed after March 31.
It is not the first time that RE has closed down any of its offices. Various projects like Ranchi, Mathura and Kota were closed down in the past.
It is mentioned here that, RE Works in East Coast Railway Jurisdiction have been completed. New works like New Lines, Doubling etc., will be executed along with electrification by the concerned construction agencies of railways, such as Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, Indian Railways Construction Company Limited (IRCON), ECoR Construction Organization, etc.
Hence, the staff and officers of RE Organisation posted in Bhubaneswar and Kolkata will be allowed to continue till current academic session. Thereafter, they will be adjusted as per their choice to the maximum extent possible.
It may also be mentioned here that the staff and officers from different zonal and divisional units of Indian Railways; like from Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Waltair, Bilaspur, Chakradharpur and Kharagpur Divisions are deputed to RE Projects to look after construction of RE projects for a few years.
After completion of the works or before commissioning of projects in other RE projects all over India, staff returned to their parental cadre or to their initial units. This is the normal practice for all RE projects.
