The Prestigious Railway Minister’s Shield National Energy Greenco Global Green “Best Production Unit” Conservation Award Gold Rating Award - 2014 2015 Internal Circulation - 2014 & 2015 Award - 2018 Issue# 171 ICF OFFICIAL MONTHLY NEWS BULLETIN January-2020 Published by PR Branch, ICF PRODUCTION STATISTICS Displaying dedication and 350 efficiency, ICF has produced its 289 288 289 300 278 3000th coach of the year in less working days for than 9 months, on 21.12.2019. 1000 coaches 250 217 This would help in meeting the 216 209 202 215 181 working days for growing demand for coaches. 200 172 2000 coaches The number of working days to 149 154 149 150 achieve the above figure has 112 working days for 88 3000 coaches been reduced from 289 days in 100 the last year to 215 days in the current year, a reduction of 50 25.6%. Till the year 2014, the 0 same amount of time was being taken for the production of only 1-12 201 1000 coaches. 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 ICF created a record by manufacturing 2,222 LHB WORKING DAYS TO COMPLETE 1000, 2000 & 3000 COACHES coaches in just 8 months and 11 Year days in the ongoing financial Coach 2011- 2012- 2013- 2014- 2015- 2016- 2017- 2018- 2019- year. In the last financial year, ICF 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 had produced the same number of LHB coaches in 12 months. 1000 216 209 217 181 172 149 154 112 88 2000 289 288 278 202 149 Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav, IRSEE 3000 289 215 (1980 Batch), has assumed charge on 01.01.2020 after being reappointed as Chairman, VISIT OF DELEGATES FROM NEPAL RAILWAYS Railway Board, in the rank of Ex- Officio Principal Secretary to Government of India. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has approved re- employment of Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav as Chairman, Railway Board, for a period of one year w.e.f 01.01.2020. Delegates from Nepal Railways visited ICF on 16.12.2019 and held discussion with Senior Officials of ICF at Chintan Sabha Gruh. In continuation to the series of events in connection with Samvidhan Diwas (Constitution Day), ICF Sports Association organized a rally from ICF Administrative Building to Stadium covering the ICF residential areas on 13.12.2019. Shri A. K. Kathpal, PCME, flagged off the rally in the presence of Shri Sebastian Xavier, Sr. Sports Officer and Shri Ram Ranvijay Pratap, CME/QA. Mahaparinirwan Divas (Death Anniversary) of Bharat Ratna Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was observed on 06.12.2019. GM/ICF and other senior officials garlanded the bust of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar at the lobby of GM's Administrative office building. The rally consisted of sportspersons, officers and staff of ICF, carrying the banner with the preamble of the Constitution of India to propagate awareness of the same. 137th Official Language Implementation Committee Meeting was held at ICF at Chintan Sabha Gruh on 09.12.2019 in which ICF's team of Officers and staff, including members of OLIC, participated. Rail Ranjani, a quarterly Hindi e - magazine, was released during the occasion. GM/ICF presented individual cash awards to staff for their excellent work in Hindi. Energy Conservation Meet was organized at ICF on 13.12.2019. Shri Yuvaraj from M/s Snader and Shri Mohanrao from M/s Havels made presentation on various topics of energy conservation and also about latest technology. PCEE along with ICF team of Officers and Staff inspected various energy efficient products which were displayed during the occasion. Special Vendor Meet was organized by ICF jointly with National Small Industries Corporation(NSIC) at AWTI Auditorium on 11.12.2019 for increasing vendor base and enhancing the product range of forging & casting and other items. Shri Venkateshwaran, Zonal Manager/NSIC, was the Chief Guest during the occasion. Around 50 components having business potential for development were displayed. As part of welfare measures, a Passport Mela was organized More than 260 vendors participated in the meet and after the for ICF Employees and their families on 14.12.2019 and interaction at AWTI, they also visited LHB Unit. 15.12.2019 at Dr. Ambedkar Arangam Dining Hall. 2 January-2020 Integral News Shri S. Deva Prashanth, S/o. P.Sreetharan, SSE 48, has won the Silver Bronze Medal in INPEX - India National Philatelic Exhibition - 2019 held at WTC, Mumbai from 18-22 Dec.2019 on thematic collection of postage stamps - Scout Jamborees. Solar Power Plant of 1 MWp ON-Grid Rooftop was commissioned on 16.12.2019 by Shri N. Sathesh Babu, SSE/EMC, in the presence of ICF's team of Officers and Staff at LHB. The Ministry of Railway has accorded Organised Group 'A' status to Railway Protection Force (RPF) and renamed it as Indian Railway Protection Force Service. Winners of the National Best Welder Competition for The 55th All India Inter-Railway Badminton Championship Women conducted by Indian Institute of Welding on was held at Railway Stadium, Perambur, Chennai. Six 6.12.2019 organized by IIW at Chennai. teams from various Zonal Railways participated in the Ms.Haridurga- (Trainee welder from AWTI) : tournament. Southern Railway won the Overall Best student welder in GMAW category. Championship. South Central Railway were the Runners Ms.Arunabai – Welder/Shop 20: up followed by ICF. Best structural welder in GMAW process. PERSON OF THE MONTH The following employees received individual cash award and certificates on 09.12.2019 in the OLIC meeting for their contribution in implementing usage of Hindi in Official work. November/2019 December/2019 Smt. J.Revathy Shri. T.Sivakumar, Accounts Clerk/Fur Ch.OS/Medical Dept M.S.Nazar M.Subramani V.S.Dakshayani Ch.OS/Mech PS Gr-II/Mech OS/Stores Welding Competition Winners- LHB (Oct to Dec 2019) October/2019 November/2019 Shri. Jothi Baskar Shri. M. Suresh Kumar SSE/Plg/Shell Jr.Prg.Man/S M.Elumalai A.V.Vinayan Guthi Srinivasa Rao Ist Place IInd Place IIIrd Place S m t . K a n n a m m a , C h . O S / P B Participated in 21st Asian Masters Athletic Championship - 2019 held at November/2019 December/2019 Kuching, Malaysia from 02.12.2019 to Shri. Vishakh Gopi Shri. S. Rajkumar 07.12.2019 and secured 4th place in SSE/S-87/Fur JE/S-82/Fur Hammer Throw 3 January-2020 Integral News OFFICIAL POSTINGS Chennai Rail Museum organised a full day tour on Name S/Shri/ Smt Previous Present 02.12.2019 for The Judiciary Batches of respected Judges at Sanjay Verma CMM/G S.Rly Museum and also covering ICF factory. K.Venugopal Rao CMM/Proj CMM/G Y.P.Reddy CMM/E CMM/Proj. Abhishek Kumar Dy. CMM/M/F DyCMM/FD P.Sivalingam Dy. CMM/FD S.Rly Ankur Chauhan Dy. CMM/F/F + Dy. CMM/M/F Praveen Poddar N.F.Rly Dy. CEE/Con. V.M.Govindarajan Dy. CEE/Con Dy. CEE/Fur-1 R.B.Parashar Dy. CEE/D-1 + Fur-1 Dy. CEE/D-1 Anshu Kumar SME/QA/F Dy. CME/Shell-II J.Nagesh Dy. CME/Shell-II Curator/RRM M.E.Srinivasan Principal/TTC + Principal/TTC Curator/RRM A.Chinnusamy AWM/LHB-III/S AWM/QA/F Dr Chellamani Addl CMS V.R We Deeply mourn the sudden demise of the following employees Sl Name S/Shri Designation 1 S.Kumar DyCMM/LHB 2 L.Muthu Asst Workshop- Mech / Shop 54 3 Senthil Asst workshop- Elec / Shop 46 4 Sai Murugadoss Asst Workshop- Mech / Shop 22 5 Anwar Sr Tech - Serang / Shop-12 RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN ICF st EMPLOYEES RETIRING ON 31 JANUARY 2020 Vistadome on LHB Platform SL NAME DESIGNATION SHOP ICF has earlier manufactured Vistadome coaches on 1 Rajalakshmi Udayashankar. Dy. FA & CAO conventional ICF platform. Railway Board has advised ICF to 2 Kalimuthu.R Sr. Tech. 13 manufacture Vistadome coaches on LHB platform in August 3 Anbu.M Sr. Tech. 23 2019. The design has been completed and detailed 4 Premnath.S Sr. Tech. 24 manufacturing drawings have been issued within a short 5 Kandaswamy.S Tech.-1 26 6 Raja.L P Sr. Tech. 40 span of two months. Procurement action had also been taken 7 Sundara Ganapathy.G Sr. Tech. 48 to turn out prototype coach in the current year itself. 8 Gunasekaran.P SSE PCO/S Nilgiri Mountain Railway Coaches with improved 9 Sunil Kumar. Sr. Tech. Stores/S features 10 Elizabeth Abraham. Pvt Secy Gr-II 74 11 Hemababu.MR SSE D&D ICF has earlier manufactured 8 coaches for Meter Gauge 12 Renukadevi.D Genl.Asst/Mech D&D Nilgiri Mountain Railway consisting of three variants – First 13 Ibrahim.VK SSE Engg Class, Second Class and SLR with Guard room. These 14 Srinivasan.C Hd Constable RPF coaches have been provided with improved features like – 15 Babu.R A.S.I RPF PAS System, Mobile Charging points, LED lights, Wider 16 Sampath.A Tech.-1 19 windows, Stainless Steel Car body, Bogie with Suspension 17 Thulasi Raman.YR Sr. Tech. 28 tube arrangement for pinion (Rack and Pinion mechanism), 18 Dhayanithi.T Tech.-1 29 Conical rubber Springs in primary, cab for brake man and 19 Pugendran.S Sr. Tech. 30 additional safety features. Based on the feedback of 20 Tharagaram.M Tech.-1 30 Southern Railway, ICF has carried out improvements in the 21 Ashok Kumar.S Sr. Tech. 30 design of these coaches. Detailed manufacturing drawings 22 Chittrarasu.V Tech.-1 30 have been issued and procurement action also taken to 23 Karunakar Polai.