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I graduated in Electrical Engineering from University of Roorkee in the year 1976 and joined Indian Railways in the year 1977 through UPSC exam IRSEE-76. Worked in different position most importantly:
Electric Locomotive Maintenance and Operation in SER as Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer/ Rolling Stock TATA, BIA and BNDM, Operation CKP, Dy. CEE/OP and RS at HQ, Chief Electrical Loco Engineer/HQ
Divisional Railway Manager Ratlam
Executive Director/Power Supply and EMU/RDSO
Chief Electrical Engineer/ECR, NR, CR, Kolkata Metro
Adviser/Railway Electrification/Railway Board
Director/IRIEENs
Superannuated from Indian Railways on 30th June 2013
Interview with Sh Ramesh Chandra Ex CRB/ML/Railway Board/Indian Railways
RailElectrica (RE): Sir welcomes to RE. RE is thankful to you for joining this interview to share your views. Sir, you are known for your straight forwardness, farsightedness, and impartiality in decision-making. Please tell us something about your career in Railways. Ramesh Chandra (RC): I passed out from Aligarh Muslim University in the year 1967 and joined […]
Economics of Electric Vs Diesel Traction – Fuel and Line Haul Cost
Last updated on April 5th, 2015 at 06:27 am Economics of Electric vs Diesel Traction on account of fuel cost is evaluated based on the rupees spend towards energy bill for hauling 1000 GTKM of load. The trend of electrical and diesel energy cost in terms of unit charges and Rs/litre as compiled in the […]
Electrical accidents waiting to happen…
Last updated on August 7th, 2013 at 04:28 pm There was news in Times of India that 2 held for filmaker’s death – shop owner accused of causing death due to negligence. The mother-son were accused of leaving naked electric wires dangling out in the open in contravention of safety norms that led to the freak yet […]
How to be confident about safe use of electricity?
Last updated on July 23rd, 2013 at 10:11 am There are innumerable cases of fire and accidental death due to electrocution. What goes wrong and how it is not detected in time? Primarily there are two causes for this playing with the protection loose connection Protective system do operate correctly most of the time but […]
Indian Electricity Rules, 2005 defines the basic fundamentals of Electricity Safety
Last updated on August 26th, 2013 at 05:54 am Indian Electricity Rules, 2005 defines the basic fundamentals of Electricity Safety, and when followed in totality there cannot be any incidence of electrocution or electric fire. General Safety requirements are given in Chapter IV under rules 29 to 46 which covers installation, protection, operation, maintenance cut-out, identification of earth, earthed terminal, danger notice […]
Drinking Water at Railway Station
Last updated on April 5th, 2015 at 06:14 am Availability of drinking water is one of the basic passenger amenity identified by the Railways. Every effort is made the ensure ordinary and cold water drinking tap through the length of the platform to serve each passenger in different coaches to meet his water demand with […]
Looking for a little space to stand
Last updated on May 29th, 2014 at 12:36 am Reserved seats get full within a few hours/days of the opening of the window and not a little space to stand in ordinary second class coach, thus the situation prevailing in almost all trains throughout the year. Look at the faces of the average person in […]
Providing Platform ticket along with Vehicle Parking Ticket
Whenever a car is parked at a Railway station, the same is driven by a person who intends to drop his relative or friends to board the train. He is always looking for a platform ticket and has to search for ticket window as well may have to stand in a queue. Why not sell […]
CLEANING – first step to maintenance
A large number of products of Indian Railway work in very harsh environmental condition. Environmental conditions like dust, moisture, chemical pollutants, rain etc. create natural cleaning need and can be addressed with little effort. But the problem is aggravated due to external factors prevailing all over Indian Railways such as Poor infrastructure for disposal of garbage which lies on the track […]