Meharunnisa , Saidpur (Nilphamari) :
Eighty percent work of the rehabilitation of 18 old and obsolete coaches in Saidpur Railway Workshop has been completed .
Senior officials of Railway visited the workshop recently . Very soon we will be able to manufacture more and more new coaches. This will save a huge amount of foreign currency , said Divisional Superintendent .
The old and back-dated rail coaches are being repaired in the country’s biggest Saidpur Railway Workshop. Railway officials, employees and workers are working day and night . The color of the national flag is transformed into a red green line in the white space and it is being transformed into the level of world-class Coaches. The sources said that about 76 crore will be saved in these constructions.
According to the sources, Saidpur Railway Workshop was established in 1870 on 110 acres of land. At the beginning 10/12 thousand employees were working in 26 shops (sub-factories), but currently 1,568 people is working. 2, 453 posts are vacant. The manpower crisis has become extremely acute because of not being recruited for a long time and due to retirement of people from various shops. In this situation, 18 Rail Coaches from the yard of Chittagong are being repaired in Saidpur Workshop. The construction of the coaches has started. Three of these have already been completed which will be placed at Lalmonirhat-Dhaka route in place of the old coach of Lalmonir Express train with these new coaches.
Eighty percent work of the rehabilitation of 18 old and obsolete coaches in Saidpur Railway Workshop has been completed .
Senior officials of Railway visited the workshop recently . Very soon we will be able to manufacture more and more new coaches. This will save a huge amount of foreign currency , said Divisional Superintendent .
The old and back-dated rail coaches are being repaired in the country’s biggest Saidpur Railway Workshop. Railway officials, employees and workers are working day and night . The color of the national flag is transformed into a red green line in the white space and it is being transformed into the level of world-class Coaches. The sources said that about 76 crore will be saved in these constructions.
According to the sources, Saidpur Railway Workshop was established in 1870 on 110 acres of land. At the beginning 10/12 thousand employees were working in 26 shops (sub-factories), but currently 1,568 people is working. 2, 453 posts are vacant. The manpower crisis has become extremely acute because of not being recruited for a long time and due to retirement of people from various shops. In this situation, 18 Rail Coaches from the yard of Chittagong are being repaired in Saidpur Workshop. The construction of the coaches has started. Three of these have already been completed which will be placed at Lalmonirhat-Dhaka route in place of the old coach of Lalmonir Express train with these new coaches.
