Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has been selected for the prestigious Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Best Zonal Railway Shield-2020 for all-round performance among all the zones in the Indian Railways.
This is for the third time the ECoR will receive this shield.
Previously, the ECoR had bagged this shield for All Round Performance in 2008-09 and 2015-16.
This award is based on the criteria of selection on the basis of loading of revenue and earnings, goods traffic, punctuality of trains, passenger traffic, consequential train accidents per million train KMs, capacity utilisation of repair workshop out-turn, coach performance, energy consumption, utilisation of motive power and railway stock, operating ratio, economy in manpower, working of signal/telecom equipments, progress of track renewal, stock utilisation, performance of track machine, ticket checking, timely completion of major works, earnings and scrap disposal etc.
The shield was instituted in the memory of Late Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, the freedom fighter and former Union Minister.
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