Maligaon, January 24 (MExN): General Manager/ NF Railway Sanjive Roy will reward two village boys and train drivers on Republic Day for helping in averting train accident through prompt action.
Two villagers, Bikas Das and Surya Das and drivers in the train Bibekananda Biswas, Driver and Surya Pratap Singh, Assistant Driver on January 7 helped avert train mishap of the Rajya Rani Express to Guwahati – Silghat Town, stated a press release from Chief PRO PJ Sharma.
Bibekananda Biswas, Driver and Surya Pratap Singh, Assistant Driver halted the train after noticing two boys waving hands. Upon stopping the train they observed a rail fracture about 20/30 metres ahead of the engine.
Both the villagers along with drivers will be awarded for showing alertness for which a possible mishap.
General Manager / N.F. Railway has also decided to award CS Gogoi, driver & Rajib Kumar, Asst driver under Tinsukia Division and Duryodhan Reddy, driver and Vinod Kumar Bagdi, Asst driver under Alipurduar Division whose alertness to stop train by applying emergency brake saved elephants who were crossing railway tracks.
General Manager, NF Railway will also award the drivers of the goods train which first crossed over the newly constructed Bogibeel Bridge. It can be mentioned here that, Chayan Das, driver and Diwakar Kumar, Asst. driver piloted the 1st goods train across the newly commissioned Bogibeel Bridge On December 21 from New Tinsukia to Rangapara North.
