Southern Railway conducts mock drill at Jolarpet railway yard
The Chennai Division of Southern Railway conducted a joint cock drill at Jolarpet railway yard in Tirupattur on Saturday as part of disaster preparedness and to monitor the effectiveness of relief and rescue operations in the event of an accident.
According to a press release, around 1,000 members, including personnel from Chennai Division's Safety, Civil Defence, Railway Protection Force (RPF), Government Railway Police (GRP), St. John Ambulance, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Tamil Nadu Disaster Response Force (TNDRF), and Metropolitan Disaster Response Force (MDF) took part in the exercise.
As part of the three-hour-mock drill, an accident scene was replicated using condemned coaches and mannequins of passengers. A Self-propelled Accident Relief Train (SPART) with doctors, paramedical staff, rescue workers, engineers and emergency tools for extricating passengers from wreckage was sent to the accident spot set up for the mock drill. The NDRF, TNDRF and MDF team rehearsed the rescue and relief operation.
The exercise was monitored by senior railway officials including Ganesh, Principal Chief Safety Officer, Tej Partap Singh, Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Shri Sathiya Seelan, Senior Divisional Safety Officer, Shri B. Ramakrishna, Senior Divisional Security Commissioner.
Tirupattur Collector K. Sivasoundaravalli, and Shreya Gupta, Superintendent of Police (SP), were also present, the release said.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Time of India
6 hours ago
- Time of India
Chennai airport conducts full scale emergency mock drill to assess crash preparedness
Chennai: An aircraft engulfed in flames, fire and crash extinguishers rushing to put out the fire, NDRF personnel rescuing victims, medical teams attending to passengers with burn injuries, ambulances zipping through the traffic — it all seemed realistic. The full-scale emergency mock drill at the OTA premises on GST Road brought together various stakeholders of Chennai airport to assess their preparedness and readiness in case of a flight crash near the airport. Initially, onlookers and passersby panicked as they heard about the 'mayday call', saw medical teams triaging patients based on injuries, watched CISF personnel cordoning off the area and the bomb squad checking the luggage for suspected ammunition. The drill caused a traffic snarl on the GST road for about an hour as vehicle movement was restricted to make way for ambulances. It took a while for people to understand that it was an exercise being carried out by several govt agencies as a practice to manage future emergencies. The mock drill, conducted on Saturday, was almost a simulation of Ahmedabad crash, but the fictional aircraft was assumed to be carrying 50 passengers and five crew members. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum – No Wallet Needed! IC Markets Start Now Undo Airport officials said there is already a standard operating procedure in place in case of such emergencies, and how effectively it was implemented was tested during the exercise. The entire exercise was monitored and evaluated by DGCA representatives, air traffic controllers, and district administration to identify performance metrics that need improvement. You Can Also Check: Chennai AQI | Weather in Chennai | Bank Holidays in Chennai | Public Holidays in Chennai Airport officials said such full-scale emergency mock drills take place once every three years to assess the airport's readiness to respond to a crash-like situation and inter-agency cooperation. However, this time authorities planned it outside the airport. DGCA instructed all the airports to carry out a full-scale emergency exercise at the earliest after the Ahmedabad incident, which occurred outside the airport. Though the exercise was originally scheduled for December, it was advanced as per DGCA instructions.
The Hindu
13 hours ago
- The Hindu
Southern Railway conducts mock drill at Jolarpet railway yard
The Chennai Division of Southern Railway conducted a joint cock drill at Jolarpet railway yard in Tirupattur on Saturday as part of disaster preparedness and to monitor the effectiveness of relief and rescue operations in the event of an accident. According to a press release, around 1,000 members, including personnel from Chennai Division's Safety, Civil Defence, Railway Protection Force (RPF), Government Railway Police (GRP), St. John Ambulance, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Tamil Nadu Disaster Response Force (TNDRF), and Metropolitan Disaster Response Force (MDF) took part in the exercise. As part of the three-hour-mock drill, an accident scene was replicated using condemned coaches and mannequins of passengers. A Self-propelled Accident Relief Train (SPART) with doctors, paramedical staff, rescue workers, engineers and emergency tools for extricating passengers from wreckage was sent to the accident spot set up for the mock drill. The NDRF, TNDRF and MDF team rehearsed the rescue and relief operation. The exercise was monitored by senior railway officials including Ganesh, Principal Chief Safety Officer, Tej Partap Singh, Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Shri Sathiya Seelan, Senior Divisional Safety Officer, Shri B. Ramakrishna, Senior Divisional Security Commissioner. Tirupattur Collector K. Sivasoundaravalli, and Shreya Gupta, Superintendent of Police (SP), were also present, the release said.
Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Rudraprayag bus accident: One more body recovered, toll now 4, 8 still missing
Dehradun: The body of a 55-year-old man from Rajasthan was recovered on Friday as search operations continued to locate eight others still missing after a bus carrying 20 Char Dham pilgrims veered off the Badrinath National Highway and plunged into the Alaknanda River between Rudraprayag and Gauchar on Thursday morning. The 31-seater bus, headed to Badrinath, was carrying pilgrims from Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra when the accident took place at 7.50 am (Sourced) The body of Sanjay Soni, a resident of Udaipur, was recovered from the banks of the river in Ratura, 7 km downstream of the accident site in Gholtir. 'Since morning, the rescue teams have so far recovered one body from the river bank in the Ratura area. The body was brought up to the road and sent to the district hospital in Rudraprayag. His body was then handed over to his family after *panchayatnama* and postmortem,' Rudraprayag superintendent of police (SP) Akshay Prahlad Konde said. The 31-seater bus, headed to Badrinath, was carrying pilgrims from Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra when the accident took place at 7.50 am. Three bodies — Vishal Soni (42) from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, Dreamy (17) from Surat in Gujarat, and Gauri Soni (41) from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh — were recovered yesterday. Eight passengers who were injured were taken to hospital. Konde said that rescuers continue to search for eight missing pilgrims. 'A joint rescue operation was started by the national disaster response force (NDRF), state disaster response force (SDRF), district disaster response force (DDRF), police, fire department, and divers of Jal Police. Watchers have been deployed at various points along the river from the accident site to Srinagar (a 45 km stretch of the river). Boats and sonar equipment are assisting the search operation,' he added. Bus driver Sumit Kumar, who survived the crash, said he wasn't speeding but lost control of the bus after a head-on collision with a speeding truck. Kumar said the truck hit the bus on his side of the vehicle, 'after which I lost control and the bus fell into Alaknanda'. Police said the driver's version of the events was yet to be verified. For now, the priority is to help the victims. A First Information Report (FIR) was registered under Sections 125 (endangering life or personal safety of others), 106 (causing death by negligence), and 281 (driving a vehicle negligently on a public road) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
