Lok Sabha Question No. 32 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-02-24
Subject: Equipping Gang-Men with Modern Gadgets
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: BALASUBRAMANIAM SENGUTTUVAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 32 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.02.2016

## EQUIPPING GANG-MEN WITH MODERN GADGETS

32.  SHRI B. SENGUTTUVAN:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the  division-wise  number  of  gang-men  totally  employed  by  the Railways;
- (b) whether  incidence  of  railway  gang-men  getting  run  over  by  the trains  is  increasing  from  year  to  year  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof, zone-wise and state/UT-wise during the last three years;
- (c) whether there is any proposal pending to re-designate the gangmen as railway-track-maintainers and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) whether there is any other proposal to equip the gang-men with a walkie-talkie like instrument called Rakshas to warn them about the oncoming trains so that they stand clear of the railway tracks?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI MANOJ SINHA)

- (a) to (d) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  32  BY  SHRI  B.  SENGUTTUVAN  TO  BE ANSWERED  IN  LOK  SABHA  ON  24.02.2016  REGARDING  EQUIPPING GANG-MEN WITH MODERN GADGETS.

(a)  The  Division  wise  details  of  Gang-men  (Re-designated  as  Track Maintainer) employed by Railways is as under:

## Track Maintainers (Gang-men) on Indian Railways

| SL        | Zone/Railway   | Division    |   No. of Track Maintainers |
|-----------|----------------|-------------|----------------------------|
| 1         |                | Mumbai      |                       2754 |
| 2         |                | Nagpur      |                       3333 |
| 3         | Central        | Bhusawal    |                       3253 |
| 4         |                | Pune        |                       1098 |
| 5         |                | Sholapur    |                       1614 |
| 6         |                | Howrah      |                       4382 |
| Eastern 7 |                | Sealdah     |                       3957 |
| 8         |                | Asansol     |                       3035 |
| 9         |                | MLDT        |                       2039 |
| 10        |                | Dhanbad     |                       4141 |
| 11        |                | Danapur     |                       3405 |
| 12        | East Central   | Mughalsarai |                       3141 |
| 13 14     |                | Sonpur      |                       2934 |
|           |                | Samastipur  |                       2812 |
| 15        |                | Khurda Road |                       3238 |
| East 16   | Coast          | Sambalpur   |                       2125 |
| 17        |                | Waltair     |                       3758 |
| 18        |                | Moradabad   |                       4183 |
| 19        |                | Delhi       |                       5845 |
| 20        | Northern       | Ambala      |                       3804 |
| 21        |                | Firozepur   |                       5063 |
| 22        |                | Lucknow     |                       5156 |

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|   23 | North Central   | Allahabad         |   4856 |
|------|-----------------|-------------------|--------|
|   24 | North Central   | Jhansi            |   3097 |
|   25 | North Central   | Agra              |   2984 |
|   26 |                 | Izzatnagar        |   3023 |
|   27 | North Eastern   | Lucknow           |   3226 |
|   28 |                 | Varanasi          |   3517 |
|   29 |                 | Katihar           |   3792 |
|   30 |                 | Alipurduar        |   2457 |
|   31 |                 | Rangiya           |   2561 |
|   32 |                 | Lumding           |   4284 |
|   33 |                 | Tinsukia          |   1948 |
|   34 |                 | Ajmer             |   2085 |
|   35 |                 | Bikaner           |   3268 |
|   36 |                 | Jaipur            |   2691 |
|   37 |                 | Jodhpur           |   1997 |
|   38 |                 | Chennai           |   3064 |
|   39 |                 | Salem             |   1962 |
|   40 |                 | Palakkad          |   1784 |
|   41 |                 | Thiruvananthpuram |   2231 |
|   42 |                 | Triuchirappalli   |   1993 |
|   43 |                 | Madurai           |   2714 |
|   44 |                 | Secunderabad      |   5129 |
|   45 |                 | Hyderabad         |   1468 |
|   46 |                 | Vijayawada        |   4073 |
|   47 |                 | Guntakal          |   3488 |
|   48 |                 | GNT               |   1340 |
|   49 |                 | Nanded            |   1903 |
|   50 |                 | Adra              |   3475 |
|   51 |                 | Chakradharpur     |   4469 |
|   52 |                 | Kharagpur         |   3502 |
|   53 |                 | Ranchi            |   1648 |

| 54                   | Bilaspur       | 3928   |
|----------------------|----------------|--------|
| Southeast Central 55 | Raipur 1703    |        |
| 56                   | Nagpur         | 3545   |
| 57                   | Hubli          | 2978   |
| South Western 58     | Bangalore      | 2280   |
| 59                   | Mysore 2134    |        |
| 60 Western           | Mumbai         | 4228   |
| 61                   | Vadodara       | 3067   |
| 62                   | Ratlam         | 3848   |
| 63                   | Ahemdabad 3076 |        |
| 64                   | Rajkot         | 1663   |
| 65                   | Bhavnagar      | 1981   |
| 66                   | Jabalpur       | 4456   |
| West Central 67      | Bhopal         | 3664   |
| 68                   | Kota           | 3480   |
| 69 Metro             | Metro          | 54     |
| Total                | 211184         | 211184 |

(b)  The  number  of  Gang-men  (Re-designated  as  Track  Maintainer) getting run over by the trains have shown a declining trend from 212 in 2012-13 to 127 in 2014-15. State/UT-wise details are, however not maintained  by  Railways.  Zone-wise  details  of  last  03  years  are  as under:

## Zone-wise No. of Gangmen (Track Maintainers) Runover During

2012 -13 to 2014-15:

| SN    | Zone/Railway       | 2012-13   |   2013-14 | 2014-15   |
|-------|--------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| 1     | Central            | 22        |        28 | 13        |
| 2     | Eastern            | 10        |        11 | 8         |
| 3     | East Central       | 11        |        13 | 8         |
| 4     | East Coast         | 14        |         4 | 10        |
| 5     | Northern           | 19        |        26 | 16        |
| 6     | North Central      | 38        |        25 | 18        |
| 7     | North Eastern      | 8         |         7 | 4         |
| 8     | Northeast Frontier | 14        |        14 | 9         |
| 9     | North Western      | 7         |        14 | 6         |
| 10    | Southern           | 9         |         5 | 2         |
| 11    | South Central      | 10        |        12 | 9         |
| 12    | South Eastern      | 9         |         8 | 3         |
| 13    | Southeast Central  | Nil       |         4 | 3         |
| 14    | South Western      | 7         |         2 | Nil       |
| 15    | Western            | 23        |        13 | 9         |
| 16    | West Central       | 11        |        10 | 9         |
| Total | Total              | 212       |       196 | 127       |

- (c)  The Gangmen on Indian Railways have already been re-designated as Track Maintainers with effect from 17.08.2012.
- (d) The specification for 'VHF (Very High Frequency) based Approaching Train Warning  System for Track Maintainers' has been developed and pilot project for trial on 2 Zonal Railways has also been taken up.

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