Rlys to install coach defect monitoring systems for safety

In a move to create a "zero accident" network, the Indian Railways has decided to install coach-defect monitoring systems on 65 rail sections across the country.

Officials said these include 25 sections on Central and Western Railway, both of which have an extensive rail network in Maharashtra.

"The sections on WR and CR where we plan to have these systems include Wardha-Nagpur and Bhusawal-Jalgaon on CR and Mumbai-Surat and Surat-Baroda on WR," a senior official of Northern Railway said.

It will cost Rs 115 crore to set up the system in these 25 sections, the official said.

Explaining the mechanism, Arun Arora, principal chief mechanical engineer, NR, said, "The Online Monitoring of Rolling Stock (OMRS) system involves the placing of microphones and sensors in such a way that they record any audible noise or measure forces generated while a wagon, coach or locomotive is in motion."