Rawalpindi:
To take serious notice of the increasing presence and breeding of hoses in the areas of shunting and goods, over the nine platforms and within a mile radius of Rawalpindi railway station, the authorities deployed machines to remove waxed vegetation, including three foot-high wild bushes, grass and cannabis-like.
In response to a report published in Express Pakinomist Highlighting the question took Rawalpindi Railways Divisional Superintendent (DS), Nooruddin Dawar, Fast Action and ordered the immediate approval of overgrown vegetation from platforms and adjacent areas.
A powerful automated grass cutting machine was quickly deployed to the area of Shunting and Goods and began operations from platform # 3 to 10. The clearance work continues through Friday and is expected to be fully completed by Saturday.
DS convened meetings with staff from goods, wagon and wagon, cleaning and signal departments and informed them about the operation. He emphasized that the security of the railway staff is of the utmost importance and warned that negligence would not be tolerated.
In the issuance of an urgent directive, DS Division engineer (the) Tayyab, Permanent Way Inspector (PWI) Rawalpindi, Inspector of Works-I (IUW-I) nasir Jadoon and Inspector of Works-II (IUW-II) Murtaza to start emergency grass distance within For completion. The operation began on Thursday.
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In addition, DS has instructed the Railway Police and other relevant staff to launch spraying and extermination measures for slang and extinction across all affected areas starting Friday.
Due to the recent monsoon rains, staff from the wagon, goods, goods, traffic and shunting departments had reported an alarming increase in hoses, insects and other pests, with formal complaints previously presented to the danger.
Railway Labor Alliance leaders including Mubarak Hussain, Shaukat Ali Awan, Shaukat Khan, Zahid Mehmood, Irfan Minhas and Fida Hussain, have greeted the rapid action and commencement of approval operations in the shunting area.
They called on the administration to implement a regular and systematic weed and grass maintenance plan across the station’s premises to avoid similar threats in the future.
