Bhubaneswar, Dec 16: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) was conferred with two prestigious Efficiency Shields for best performance in the field of commercial and security segments at the 68th Railway Week Central Function, organised at Bharat Mandapam at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, officials said on Saturday.

ECoR General Manager Manoj Sharma along with Principal Chief Commercial Manager V R Lenin received Efficiency Shield for Commercial and Sharma along with Principal Chief Security Commissioner Alok Bohra received the shield for Security from Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the central function held at the National Capital.

Apart from this, ECoR has also received one individual award. Divisional Operations Manager of Khurda Road Railway Division Randhi Manoj Babu received "Ati Vishist Rail Seva Puraskar '' from the Minister of Railways for his dedication to the service in freight loading revenue generation and attracting new stake holders for transportation of new commodities.

Vaishnaw conferred awards and shields to best performing railway personnel for promoting best practices among railway employees, today at the 68th Railway Week Central Function – Ati Vishist Rail Seva Puraskar-2023.

Addressing the gathering after conferring the awards and shields, the Union Minister for Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw congratulated all the awardees for their exceptional work and effort.

“Transformative work is going on at full pace in Railways under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. More electrification has been done in 9.5 years than in the past 40 years. The big picture behind this transformation is, when in 2015 Prime Minister merged the Rail Budget with General Budget, interest/ capital charge which had to be paid earlier on the rail grant was not needed and it removed all financial hindrances for the railways. Lack of Investment, which was the biggest problem for railways, is now a thing of the past."

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Altogether, 100 railway employees from various zonal railways, production units & railway psus all over the country were awarded for their outstanding services along with 21 efficiency shields.

Chairperson & CEO and Members of Railway Board, General Managers of Zonal Railways and heads of Production Units of Railways and PSUs of Railways were present on the occasion.

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