Good news for Indian Railways employees, pensioners and passengers: New services launched; know how you benefit

Indian Railways employees, pensioners, and passengers have some good news to cheer about. The railways has launched a host of initiatives for the benefit of employee, pensioners, and passengers. The services were launched by Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman Railway Board during his visit to Rail Nilayam, the headquarters of South Central Railway at Secunderabad. Below are the details of new services:

Quick Watering System: The chairman Railway Board launched the Quick Watering System on Platforms 8/9 & 10 at Secunderabad Railway station. This will enable filling up of a 24 coach train in about five minutes, thereby may help in reducing the waiting time for trains at the platform and enhance train handling capacities at the station. Thus, the passengers may not face water scarcity onboard the trains.

Kaizala Mobile Chat App for Indian Railway Employees: With a view to provide health care access anytime, anywhere on the go, on the e-gateway, Indian Railways has introduced the Mobile Chat App, “Kaizala” of Microsoft, to cater to the needs of the entire 13 lakh employees of Indian Railways, their families and the rail pensioners across the country. The chat app links the railway hospitals countrywide. It will facilitate ease and convenience to railway workforce, stationed even in the remotest locations to seek healthcare advice from Doctors on-line, Book Doctor Appointments, save & access medical reports and share the same with Doctors for treatment. 

Unique Medical Identification (UMID) Smart Card: UMID, a web and mobile-based application, has been introduced to simplify access to health care services, doing away with the need for beneficiaries to carry the physical card. This will help in generating Medical Identity Cards for employees, pensioners and dependents. The identification of the beneficiary will be done through railways' database.

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Project Saksham- Phase II: Indian Railways, which is undergoing a rapid transformation, has launched Project Saksham Phase-II, a skilling initiative to focus on multidisciplinary training of the workforce to adapt to technological as well as cultural changes in the organization. This comes on the strength of the hugely successful project Saksham Phase-I last year which had seen over 12 lakh employees getting trained and contributing positively to the work culture of Indian Railways.