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 ...
A TOTAL of 482 coaches of Central Railways are lying idle after being converted into modified isolation wards for COVID-19 patients. The coaches are unused as the State Government has not yet requested for deployment of the coaches, stated a top-rank railway official.
According to information, Central Railways has modified 482 coaches for COVID-19 patients as per the directives of Ministry of Railways. Of them, 60 quarantine coaches with capacity of 16 persons in each were prepared by Central Railways Nagpur Division while 120 were prepared by Central Railways Carriage workshop, Matunga, Mumbai.
Responding to Right to Information (RTI) query filed by Ajay Bose, Central Railways stated that Rs 77,678/- were spent for modification of each coach. The coaches have facilities of two bottle holders, two coat hooks, oxygen cylinder bracket, three sets of foot-operated dustbins, bathing arrangement, health faucet, bathing seat, mug, bucket. Each coach having separate block for nurse and doctors by making provisions of transparent plastic curtains, sufficient converted electrical points to accommodate other medical accessories. In all these coaches, middle berth was removed to create extra space, Central Railways replied to RTI query.
The middle berths had been removed and the lower portion of the compartment was plugged by plywood during modification. These coach isolation wards can be used for patients with mild symptoms of COVID-19 infection. While health infrastructure is exhausting in the State and many patients are not getting beds in the hospital, the State Government can use the coaches for patients.
Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Shivaji Sutar of Central Railways told ‘The Hitavada’ that protocol for the coaches was defined. As per the protocol, the State Government would request for the coaches when their existing health infrastructure would exhaust. The State Government would send the request to Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare which directs the Railways for deployment of coaches. The Railways have nominated one official as Nodal Officer for the same, CPRO Sutar said.
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