SC RAILWAY ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION: September 2012

ENGINEERS' DAY CELEBRATIONS-2012

Dear Rail Engineers !
You are all aware that; every year, the birth Anniversay of 'BharataRatna" Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya is being celebrated as ENGINEERS' DAY. South Central Railway Engineers' Association has taken a committment to celebrate the Engineers' Day in a grand manner every year. Adhering to its committment, Engineers' Day on 2010 was celebrated at Rail Nilayam Auditorium and released a souvenir through the hands of Sri Pradeep Kumar, the then PCE/SC Railway. During 2011, Engineers' Day was celebrated at 'Hawamahal'/Sanchalan Bhavan (headquarters of Secunderabad Division).

     This year, the Engineers' day was celebrated at Zonal Civil Engineering Training Institute, Kacheguda. Principal Chief Engineer Sri V.Srihari is the Chief Guest and Sri T.P.R.Narayana Rao, Chief General Engineer is the Guest of honour for the function. Sri Sandeep Jain, Sr.DEN/Co-ord/HYB, Sri Vikram Gupta, Dy.CE/TP, Sri Nagpure,Secy to PCE; Sri J.N.Gupta, Dy.CE/LM, Sri K.Srinivas, ADEN/Principal/ZCETI, Sri P.Srinivas, ADEN/HYB, Sri P.V.Ramana Rao, AXEN/Works; Sri M.Sridhara Rao, AIE; Sri M.N.Murthy, AXEN/Plg have attended the function.

     About 100 SSEs/JEs from Works, P.Way and Bridge organizations of Engineering Department, Electrical Dept and S&T department have attended the function.

     Sri V.Srihari, PCE; while delivering the lecture, appraised the committment of the Supervisory Engineers of S.C.Rly,which brought Engineering Shield successfully for the third year and kept the elevation of Engineering department at a summit. He also advised that the engineers shall make a committment and to devote themselves to keept the status of SCR in the present position.

     Sri T.P.R.Narayana Rao, CGE have elaborated the life of Sri Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya and various achievements of Sri MV and how he became Father of Modern Mysore State. He said that Civil Engineers are the back bones of the society. He said that he was inspired from Sir Arthur Cotton and studied Civil Engineering though he got seat in Electronics and Communications, which was the fascinating course on those days.

     Sri A.Kannan, President/SCREA appraised about the formation of SCREA and the committments of the Association. He explained of the injustice done to Rail Engineers during various pay commissions and the recommendations of Khanna Committee regarding formation of Supervisory Associations on Indian Railways. Sri Kannan requested PCE to make a representation on the fate of Technical Engineers of IR.

     Sri KLVS Viswanadham, General Secretary/SCREA, elaborated the life history of Sri MV through a powerpoint presentation and emphasized the need to follow Sri MV with examples. Sri Viswanadham requested PCE and CGE to support the SCREA in conducting Seminars on modern technology and also to arrange hands on training over the modern softwares in analysing the track and to maintain it to good standards. KLVS stated that it is the oath of SCREA to keep the SCR in the first place among the Indian Railways and this could be materialized if administration extends its support.

    Sri Vikram Gupta,Dy.CE/TP advised Rail Engineers to maintain the same tempo and assured that administration will render the support from its side.

    Sri M.N.Murty explained the role of Railway Engineers and elaborated how a Railway Engineer is better than any other Engineer in the society.

     Sri K.Srinivas, Principal/ZCETI addressed the gathering and assured that the training school will render every assistance required to field engineers. He gave vote of thanks to all who made the occasion a memorable one.