The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
Nagpur Railway Station |
A RAILWAY employee died after inhaling poisonous gas in a choked gutter he had wriggled into to open at Railway Station on Saturday evening. Identified as Manoj Pannalal Grawkar (40), the deceased was a resident of Ajni. According to Government Railway Police (GRP), Manoj and six other workers attached to Central Railway’s Inspector of Works (IoW) Department were on their routine duty.
They came near the gutter. Manoj removed the manhole cover and wriggled into the gutter to remove blockage. When Manoj did not come out after a long time, another employee went inside the 12 ft deep gutter. He was shocked to find Manoj in an unconscious state. He tried to rescue Manoj but he too fell unconscious due to inhalation of the poisonous gas.
Other workers somehow pulled him out and within minutes, he regained his consciousness. The employees immediately alerted superiors about Manoj lying unconscious in the gutter. Railway Protection Force (RPF) jawans immediately informed the Fire Brigade. Rescuers from Fire Brigade went inside and pulled Manoj out. Manoj was rushed to Mayo Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
Reacting to the tragedy, Vinod Chaturvedi, Divisional Secretary, Central Railway Mazdoor Sangh (CRMS), Nagpur Division, said, “It is a shocking incident for us. The work was given to a private party by the administration. As the private parties are unable to do the work, railway workers are pressed into such emergency service without caring for their lives.”
Bashir Khan, Secretary, Administrative Branch, National Railway Mazdoor Union (NRMU), Nagpur Division, also criticised the officers of the Health Department for their casual approach. Knowing well the dangers involved in cleaning of gutter line, the department should have taken care by providing proper equipment to the workers, he added.
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