To upgrade skill sets of Railway workforce

Mysuru: A.K. Gupta, General Manager of South Western Railway (SWR), launched Project “Saksham” at Hubballi recently. Project “Saksham” is a concentrated capsule of training for all Railway employees in a short period of time to boost their productivity and efficiency.

SWR is thus one of the first Railways to launch this project as per the directives issued by the Chairman of Railway Board.  

In his keynote address, Gupta said Project Saksham aims to upgrade the skill sets of the workforce with a single drive spanning nine months, that is till September, 2018.

Under Project Saksham, all employees in the zone will be put through a week’s training in skills and knowledge relevant to their work area. It will be a five-day on the job or classroom training in Railway Training Centres, depending on the nature of their employment. The nature of short-duration training will range from refresher course, with an eye on evolved global practices in respective areas, to skill in existing line of functioning.

Employees from the rank of a peon to higher echelons will undergo the training. The programme will be of immense help to all Railwayman in their endeavour to perform better.

The event was attended by B.B. Singh, Additional General Manager, S.K. Albela, Principal Chief Personnel Officer, P.A. Lamghare, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer, John Prasad, Principal Chief Operational Manager, U.S.S. Yadav, Principal Chief Engineer, the Personnel officers from Bengaluru, Mysuru and Training Managers of all Departments.  

Beulah Sam Rachel, who is the Head of Department at Global College of Business Administration, IT & Commerce, Hubballi gave a talk on the “Managerial requisites” on the occasion.

Further, e-links on Railway works for learning resources was also inaugurated.  Various innovative ways of adopting learning were duly emphasised on this occasion, according to a press release from the Chief Public Relations Officer, South Western Railway, Hubballi.