+ From: ICF Staff Club To fr AG129/18,VII Main Rd AnnaNagar,Chennai-40 ---------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue# 131 Free Monthly News Bulletin – for Internal Circulation September 2016 Email: [email protected] Contact: 900 314 1464, 9539, 9659, 9731, Rly 46490, 47661 Chief Editor: K.Ravi, SSE/Shop80 70th Independence Day was Associate Editors: celebrated in a grand manner at M.A.Jaishankar, SSE/Proj ICF GM Administrative building A.R.S.Ravindra, SSE/Proj lawns on 15.08.2016. Shri S.Mani, Treasurer: R.Mehalan, SE/IT General Manager/ICF, unfurled Shell Offices: R.Thilak, Tech-3 the national flag and accepted the S.K.Satishkumar, SSE/Proj K.Sekar, Ch.OS/Engg guard of honour given by the RPF N.Jeganivasan, Stores Inspector contingents. While addressing the N.Ganesh,SSE/MPO/S gathering, GM highlighted ICF‟s S.Ghatikachalarao,SSE/WS achievements and future plans. N.Devaraju, SSE/Plant V.Sasikala, OS/PB B.Jayalalitha, Accts Asst Shri S. Mani, General Manager / Shell Shops: P.Baskaran, SSE/40 ICF, participated as Chief Guest in A-shed: R.Nagarajan,, SSE/10 the Valedictory Function of B-shed: A.V.Gopalakrishna, SSE/22 Annual District Rally and standard Shop 24,25,26: N.Ravikumar, SSE/26 judging competition, by Bharat D&L-shed:P.T.Sreevalsan, SSE/13 Scouts and Guides, at ICF District 40,J,E: R.Lakshminarayanan, SSE/40 Headquarters on 15.08.2016. 48,RPF: R.Kasim,SSE48 General Manager distributed prizes 11,23,41,TS:R.Jegathiswaran,SSE/41 to the competition winners. Insp: J.Ananthakumar,SSE/42 Progress: P.K.Panda,SSE/PCO CMT: G.Sivakumar, CMS-1 The 70th Independence Day celebrations were held at ICF with great Electrical:D.T.Vijayaraj,SSE/45 enthusiasm. Shri S.Mani, General Manager, ICF, unfurled the National Flag Stores : K.Sundar, OS/J-ward/SD and accepted the Guard of Honour given by the RPF contingents. Fur Offices:Harikumar.NV,SSE/MPO Accts: Sudharsan.MN,SSO/Accts Addressing the gathering, GM mentioned that ICF had achieved a record PlgF,TS: G.V.Ramesh,SSE/TS/F production of 2005 coaches in its last production year and has set a target of Stores:V.Annamalai,OS/P7 2486 coaches for the current production year (2016-17). ICF has switched over Fur Shops: R.Sundarrajan,SSE/30 to a new technology of making stainless steel coaches and has planned to turn 30: Bipinkumar Karn, SSE/30 out 404 LHB design coaches in this production year. 32,34: P.Sathyanarayanan, SSE/PC32 33:D.R.Suresh,SSE/33 He further mentioned that in the coming days, keeping pace with the new 37, 80,81,82:D.Santhakumar,SSE/80 technology, ICF will be manufacturing special coaches announced in Railway 88,CCO: K.S.Rajakumar, SSE/88 Budget, like Deen Dayalu and Antyodaya, which will have a lot of passenger Elect,CMT,IOW: M.Devaraj, SSE/85 amenities inbuilt. 36,54: R.M.Chandrasekar,SSE/54 Progress:D.Baskar, SSE/PCO ICF is also planning to manufacture two state-of-the-art tourist coaches for RRM, Colonies : A.Srivijayan, SSE54 IRCTC, which will have transparent roof for tourists to enjoy the scenic beauty LHB/19 : R.Shanmugam, SSE of the tourist spots while on travel. ICF has been given the target to TTC: J.Selvakumar,SSE/TTC manufacture 881 self-propelled coaches for the current year and also has plans D&D: Sabapathinathan.M,SSE/D&D to produce these coaches with energy-efficient, 3-phase propulsion system. Hospital: Raju Balaji, Ch.OS Web: P.Krishnakanth, Webmaster/IT Earlier, Railway Protection Force contingents presented a colourful march past 74,Tele,Union: D.N.Ramesh,SSE/Proj and Guard of Honour to the General Manager, ICF. A large number of ICF Advisors: officers, office bearers of unions/associations and employees were present on S.Muthukumar, Dy CME/SR the occasion. B.Chandrasekaran,SME/D-II Integral News September 2016 is sponsored by staff of Furnishing Division: office of the K.N.Mohan, PE/PR/S CWE, CMM, Planning, Accounts, MPO & CBS. R.Srinivasan, APE/PR/F „AIEMA Sourcing Fair 2016‟, was organized by As part of Independence Day celebrations, the children of Amabttur Industrial Estate Manufacturer‟s Association at th th GEMS school were distributed sweets by ICFWO. AIEMA Convention Centre, Ambattur, on 19 and 20 August. ICF participated in this fair and displayed various components for developing new vendors. Shri L.C. Trivedi, CME/ICF, inspected the ICF stall at the fair and also held discussion with the officials of AIEMA. Independence Day was celebrated inside Furnishing Factory. Sri M.E.Srinivasan, DyCME/F, hoisted the flag. Shri Jagadhish Prasad, CMM / Shell, transferred to MCF as COS, was given a farewell by officers on 13th August. A special drive was conducted from 1st to 31st August, to increase the usage of Hindi in day-to-day official work. Various competitions were conducted. CME inaugurated the ICF district rally and standard judging competition of scouts and guides on 14th Aug. Shri J.Deepan Chakravarthy of ICF has won Bronze medal in CME administered pledge on Sadbhavana Diwas, 20.08.16 Commonwealth Chess Championship held at Srilanka. Selvi Kaavya Dharshini, Daughter of Shri N.Baskaran, Asst Chief Cashier, studying +2 in Kendriya Vidyalaya, secured Two silver medals at Tamilnadu state shooting championships held at Coimbatore, from Aug 3 to 7, in 10 meter Air Riffle category. She got 5th place in the competition conducted by school games federation of India. She also secured silver in As part of 70th Independence Day celebrations by South Colony national tournament conducted welfare Association, a friendly cricket match was conducted on between KV schools. 15th August. Automatic smoke On 5th August, Rly Board instructed to and heat detection display tricolor national flag on all I.C.F. Silver Jubilee Nursery and primary School alarm fitted in SCN diesel locomotives as per the layout th 5747 at lavatory end. and dimension prescribed. celebrated 70 Independence day with high spirit. New Library “BOOKS ON WHEELS” was inaugurated by school‟s chairman Shri.D.P. Dash CEE / QC&C / ICF and Dr. Avanjali Dash. Exhibition on “Life Style, Science & Technology and Sports during Pre & Post independence of INDIA” was inaugurated by Dr. Avanjali Dash who appreciate the efforts put in by the kids, teachers and parents. Shri. R. Aaivu CPO / ICF In RWF, sculptures made of secretary appreciated the team work in organising the railway scrap have been exhibition and opening of new library. The exhibition was installed, and many of the walls open from 0900 to 1500 hrs for the public. and pedestrian areas are covered with paintings by the RWF staffers, their children, and NGOs and well-known artists. PERSON OF THE MONTH June ‟16: Shell June ‟16: Fur July ‟16: Fur N.G.Louis Christopher P.Tamilselvan E Maheswari, Harmony in birthday Celebration Tech-3/shop14 SSE/Designs Tech-1/Sh32 All the buds, staffs and sub-staff of ICF Silver Jubilee CIRCULARS Nursery and Primary school who blossomed in the month of August celebrated their birthdays together in a AC08: Gazette notification of VII CPC st fantabulous manner on August 31 by planting saplings in AC09: RS (RP) Rules, 2016, schedule for revised scale of the school campus. They pledged to look after their pay. saplings with due care and responsibility. It is instigated the concept of “GO-GREEN” among the young minds. AC10: implementation of VII CPC recommendations – statement of fixation of pay. OFFICIAL POSTINGS Festival advance is discontinued till further orders from Name S/Shri/ Smt Previous Present Railway Board. R.Mohanraja ADRM/MAS CPO/ICF Exam for selection of JE/M- PQ will be held on 24th Nitin Dhimole SECR CMM/S Sep Jagdish Prasad CMM/Shell MCF/RaeBareil Officers of ICF have started wearing uniform (shirt). V.Kalyanasundaram DyCC&M DyCMly E/Shell The text TEAM ICF has been printed on the top of shirt T.Dilip Kumar Training DyCME/D2 pocket. Willingness has been obtained from supervisors Varghese Joshua DyCME/Shell Training also. It will be worn once or twice a week on designated K.T.Dominic PE/PR2/S +WM/LHB days, the days will be announced. Cost is Rs.400 for half sleeve and Rs.450 for full sleeve. It is purely on a Hanuman Prasad Meena WM/LHB Leave voluntary basis. R.B.Parashar SEE/M SEE/Comng V.M.Govindarajan SEE/Comng SEE/M From Aug 22, the Regional Rail Museum of ICF has been renamed „Chennai Rail Museum‟. R.Ravindran AME/I/S +SME/I/F P.R.Subrahmanian SME/I/F Sick Till further orders, GP in the 6 CPC scale shall continue to be the basis for gradation and related entitlement of all The post of Secretary to GM, which was being operated as kinds of passes and PTOs. DyCME /Technical Coordination, is re-designated as Secretary/ ICF. Southern Railway employees cooperative society (Urban bank) paid dividend to the members on Aug 29&30. EMPLOYEES RETIRING on 30th September ’16 Wrestler Ms.Sakshi Malik, working in Northern 1 Jagadeeswaran APE Railway, has won bronze in women's 58kg freestyle in 2 Haribabu J.E 10 RIO Olympics. She is the first female wrestler from India 3 Ramsankar Tech-1 13 to win an Olympic medal. Her coach Mr. Kuldeep Malik 4 Usha Kiran Tech-1 14 is also working in NR. 5 Babu Sr.Tech 20 The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has 6 Ramaswamy Sr.Tech 21 launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI). 7 Satyanarayana Sr.Tech 41 8 Venugopalan SSE Plg/S Prime Minister in his Independence Day speech said that 9 Raghu J.E Engg Railways is expanding the rail network in the country 10 Ponnusamy Sub-Inspector RPF faster.