Hubballi railway workshop resumes work today

MYSURU: The

railway workshop

in

Hubballi

has been granted permission to

resume work

on Monday.

Neeraj Jain

,

chief workshop manager

, railway workshop, Hubballli, said

employees

will work in two

shifts

-- 6am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-8pm – as instructed by the

headquarters

. There are nearly 3,000 employees in the Hubballi workshop.


Meanwhile, the Central Railway Workshop at Ashokapuram in Mysuru is awaiting permission from the district administration to resume work. It plans to resume work, adhering to the safety and social distancing norms related to Covid-19. The employees will be divided into four groups, making them work in two shifts: 6am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 8pm.

The workshop, which has more than 1,500 employees, usually operates in one shift. The authorities here expect to resume operation with 800 employees as the staff with children aged below 5, diabetics, those with hypertension and workers residing in sealed areas will be exempted from work.

P Srinivasu, chief workshop manager, Central Railway Workshop, South Western Railway, said all precautionary measures, including social distancing, will be kept in mind when the work resumes. “Employees will be allowed only after thermal screening and those with symptoms will be sent to the railway hospital where we have isolation wards,” he said.

Srinivasu said at any point of time, 25% of the total strength will be working in each shift. “There will be no canteen. Instead, we have decided to provide packed food to all our employees. The headquarters has also given the same instruction to the Hubballi and Bengaluru workshops,” he said.

The main work of Central Railway Workshop is periodical overhauling of coaches. For the past few years, it has also been fitting bio-toilets to existing coaches. The Central Railway Workshop had converted 96 train coaches into hospital isolation units and made masks for its employees and staff of other railway departments in the Mysuru division.

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