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Issue# 141

July-2017

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Chief Editor:

K.Ravi, SSE / Shop-80

Associate Editors:

M.A.Jaishankar, SSE / Project

A.R.S.Ravindra, SSE / Project

R.Mehalan, SE / IT

R.Thilak, Tech-III / Shop-80

Advisors:

S.Muthukumar, Dy. CME / SR

B.Chandrasekaran, Dy. CME / D

K.N.Mohan, PE / PR / S

R.Srinivasan, APE / PR / F

Shri. Ravindra Gupta, Member (Rolling Stock) visited ICF on 20.06.2017. He inspected LHB Unit, Shop-39, Air Brake Shop, New Train for Kolkata Metro, Vistadome Tourist Coach for IRCTC and Antyodaya Coach. He also visited Heritage Hut and had a group photo with Furnishing Team.

Later, he visited A-shed, B-Shed, New Spring Shop and Shop-13. He inaugurated Augmented Emergency Power Supply and had a group photo with Shell Team. He also visited Heritage gallery and ICF Family Tree at Shell Administrative Building lobby and distributed award to staff for their outstanding performance. He held discussions with Senior Officers and met Office bearers of Unions /Associations, Member (Rolling Stock) declared a cash award of Rs. Two Lakhs for the outstanding performance of ICF.

July-2017 Integral News

Hon’ble MR. Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, released a book “Re-inventing the Wheel” written by Shri. S.Mani, GM/ICF during World Environment Day Celebrations at National Rail Museum, New Delhi on 05.06.2017.

IT Centre and Personnel Branch jointly launched additional online applications for the benefit of employees on 06.06.2017.

The world environment day was observed on 05.06.2017. During the occasion, pledge was taken by ICF’s team of Officers and Staff at Shell Administrative Building Lawn. Tree plantation programme was also organized by Chennai Rail Museum.

Renovated Sub-ordinate Rest House was inaugurated on 03.06.2017 by Shri. S.Perichiappan, SSE/TTC in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

Renovated Staff canteen was inaugurated on 03.06.2017 by Shri. C.Raghavan, Chief Staff & Welfare Inspector in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

Renovated Harness and Details preparatory shop was inaugurated on 09.06.2017 by Shri. Govinda Achari, Sr.Tech in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

‘GREENCO RATING SILVER’ shield was awarded to ICF on 05.06.2017 by Shri. Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Hon’ble Minister for Railways at National Rail Museum, New Delhi.

Integral NewsJuly-2017

New Stores Ward constructed in a record time was inaugurated on 20.06.2017 by Smt. D.Margrate, OS in the presence of Shri. Ravindra Gupta, Member (Rolling Stock) ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

thThe 127 Official Language Implementation Committee meeting was held on 19.06.2017. GM, Senior Officers and other members of OLIC participated in the meeting. Hindi periodical journal “Rail Ranjani” was also released by GM on this occasion. Prizes were distributed to the winners of various Hindi competitions held at zonal levels.

New GYM & Boxing Centre was inaugurated on 15.06.2017 by Smt. P.Pattammal, Sr.Tech/Shop-80 in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

A meeting was conducted with the members of Joint Action Council on 15.06.2017 on various issues concerning employees welfare. CPO, CME&CEE participated in the meeting and had discussions.

Modified CCTV Control Room was inaugurated on 15.06.2017 by Shri. P.Subramanian, SI/RPF in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

Renovated Apprentices Hostel was inaugurated on 16.06.2017 by Shri.N.R.Antony, Ch.OS in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

Diesel Generator (DG )set was inaugurated on 20.06.2017 by Shri. R.Kalaichelvan, Tech-I, in the presence of Shri. Ravindra Gupta, Member (Rolling Stock), ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

“International Yoga Day” was celebrated on 21.06.2017 to create awareness on yoga among all Officers and Staff. During this occasion, practical yoga demonstrations were given by professional yoga trainer at four locations.

Integral NewsJuly-2017

Subhas Scout Group has conducted Yoga Programme on rd21.06.2017, in connection with the 3 International Yoga Day

at Baden Powell Hall. ICF District Headquarters organized this event with a Yoga Instructor. 32 members including 7 Cubs, 11 Scouts, 5 Rovers, 3 Scouters and 6 Parents participated in the programme.

Sportsmen who secured medals in recent events had been honoured by GM with cash awards on 28.06.2017.

International Yoga day was celebrated at I.C.F. Silver Jubilee Nursery and Primary School on 21.06.2017 in a grand manner. Many kids participated in yoga demonstration. Boys and Girls performed various asana such as Surya Namaskaram, Chakrasanam, Padha Hasthasanam, Padmasanam, Yogamudra, etc., with interest and enthusiasm.

Renovated Employee’s Change Room at Shop-33 was inaugurated on 22.06.2017 by Shri. K.Devaraj, Sr.Tech, in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

“Paint Shed Shop-54 Annexe” was inaugurated on 28.06.2017 by Shri. M.Shanmugam, Tech Gr-I/ Shop-54, in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

Volley Ball Court in North colony was inaugurated on 28.06.2017 by Shri. Jacob Jose, OS/PB in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

Metal Sculpture Park was inaugurated on 29.06.2017 by Shri. V.Sudhakaran, JE/Shop-32 in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

Integral NewsJuly-2017

Shri. A.SURESH, Jr. Clerk working in Sports Section have won Silver Medal in 110 Mtr hurdles, in SENIOR AT H L E T I C C H A M P I O N S H I P. The Championship was conducted at Patiala from 01.06.2017 to 04.06.2017 by All India Athletic Federation.

ICF Ball Badminton Team have won the St. Joseph’s All India Tournament held at St. Joseph’s Institutions on 12.06.2017

The project submitted by Shri. I.Thirumalai Ravanan, AEE/MPO/Fur., during induction course-3 at IRIEEN, from 29.06.2017 to 02.12.2016 was adjudged as the best. He received the “IRIEEN Medal for excellence” and cash award from Member / (Traction) on 09.06.2017 at IRIEEN.

th10 CBSE TOP SCORERS FROM THE ICF FAMILY

10/10Reinita Thomas,

D/o.Thomas Mathew,SSE/82.

10/10S.Swetha,

D/o.S.Sridhar,OS/Shop-37

10/10R.Dhanush,

S/o.S.Rajkumar,SSE/Shop-80

th10 CBSE TOP SCORERS FROM THE ICF FAMILY

487, SS*M Hephzibah Susan,

D/o J.Mathew Joel,Sr.Tech/Shop- 40

480, S,SS*K.B.Shalini,

D/o.K.Baskaran,SSE/Shop-30

472R.S.Vineetha,

D/o. S.Ninet Jabamani,OS/CME’s Office

The sculpture “Man of EMU” crafted by Shop-29 team, received the first prize and cash award of Rs.15,000/- from GM.

+2 – TN TOPSCORERS

FROMICF FAMILY

Contd.. 1186, M,P*Syed Ashik Siddiq,S/o.S.Malik Basha,

SSE/82

1159, Com*P.Malavika,

D/o K..Palani,Tech-1/Shop40

+2 CBSE TOP SCORERS FROM ICF FAMILY

477P.Kamalesh Khanna,

S/o. P.Vanishree,Lab Supt/Hospital

479V.Ashwinn,

S/o. V.Venugopal,WM/A/Fur.

U.Aiswarya,D/o T.V.Uma Sankar,

Inspector/42K.V.S Chennai Region Commerce

stream topper

PERSON OF THE MONTH

V.Indira,Chief Matron,

Hospital, June 2017

P.Gunasekaran,SSE/ PCO/S,

Shell, May 2017

P.Aravindan,Sr.Tech/ Shop-37,

Furnishing, May 2017

Shri. A.Venugopal, WM/A/F, Shri. Abdul Hameed kuniyil, AW M / E 3 , S h r i . P. G a j e n d r a n , AW M / P l a n t / F u r. and R.Ezhilarasu, AEE/MRVC received award from GM for “ONE MONTH ONE IDEA”.

Provision Store in East Colony was inaugurated on 29.06.2017 by Shri. A.Lakshmi Narayanan, Tech-I, Shop-85 in the presence of ICF’s team of Officers and Staff.

Integral NewsJuly-2017

thEMPLOYEES RETIRING on 31 July 2017

SI. Name Designation Pay UnitNo. Shop / Office

We wish them A Happy & Peaceful Retired Life!

1 Ravichandran Sr.Tech 13

2 Rajamani Sr.Tech 14

3 Karunakaran Tech-I 16

4 Karunanithi Sr.Tech 21

5 Subramanian Sr.Tech 21

6 Gajendran Tech-I 21

7 Murali Sr.Tech 22

8 Nagarajan Sr.Tech 22

9 Mahendran Sr.Tech 22

10 Nagarajan Sr.Tech 40

11 Ranganathan Sr.Tech 40

12 Perumal SSE PCO/S

13 Amber Jeremiah Salesman-I Canteen

14 Sureshkumar Sr.Tech TTC

15 Kalyanikumar Peon TTC

16 Balasubramanian Sr.Tech 28

17 Sivasubramanian Sr.Tech 29

18 Ramani Sr.Tech 30

19 Manickam Sr.Tech 30

20 Kanniappan Sr.Tech 32

21 Devaraj Sr.Tech 33

22 Gunam Sr.Tech 36

23 Sekar Sr.Tech 36

24 Siva Tech-I 36

25 Jayagopi Sr.Tech 37

26 Thangam Tech-I 54

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s AC16:

s PB/LW/115/Canteen dt 24.06.2017:

s PB/LW/226/CC dt 15.06.2017:

Accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the GPF and other similar funds shall carry interest @7.9%

wef 01.04.2017 to 30.06.2017.

Orders relating to the National Anthem of India.

Grant of medical facilities to dependant relatives

– raising the income ceiling

Liberalisation of provisions for withdrawls from

PF by the subscribers.

Encashmenet of LAP while availing privilege

Pass/ PTO – relaxation of rule.

Those Muslim employees who observe fast and

are required to travel a long distance to their residence for IFTAR may be allowed to leave office early, wherever feasible.

Online booking of lunch in Administrative Office Canteen/ Shell.

Newly Nominated Colony Committee Members

OFFICIAL POSTINGS

Name S/Shri/ Smt Previous Present

S.Sridhar CEGE Retired

C.H.SuranjanReddy S.C.Rly CEGE

A.P.Soni DyCME/Plant N.E.Rly

K.S.Sridharan Leave DyCME/Plant

S.Meyyappan S.Rly Dy.CE

Abhishek Kumar S.Rly DyCMM/Fur

Ranvijai Pratap SME/Plg N.E.Rly

R.Ravichandran PE/PL/S +SME/Plg

Bharath Bhusan Harit EDPM N.Rly

Atul Prakash Yadav SME/MPO/F N.Rly

K.Thiagan SME/Trg +SME/MPO/F

S.Jayaprakash SMM/Steel SMM/SD

Febin Thaha Leave SMM/Steel

V.Jayapragash WM/Plant/F SME/MRVC/F

S.Narendran SME/MRVC/F WM/Plant/F

S.Kamaraj AEE/Plg AEE/M

K.Sidharthan AWM/E-I AEE/PlgAlla

Koteswara Rao Probationer AWM/E-I

1. D.Sivagnanamoorthy, DyCME/F-II

2. K.Sudalaimani, AWM/LHB

3. P.R.Madhusudhanan, SSE/Project

4. Kavitha Vijayaraghavan, ChOS/CRM

5. S.Seshadri, DyCEE/Con

6. K.Vasanthakumar, SSE/29

7. S.V.D.Raghunath Rayudu, SMM/P/S

8. S.Arulanandam, OS/Stores

9. C.Ramayan, DyCE (Retd)

10. G.Sampath, JE/Civil Engg

11. M.Senguttuvan, SrAFA/Estt/F

12. M.Vijayakumari, Sr.AA

13. G.Araselvan, APO/Gaz

14. T.Gnanasekara Pandian, S&WI

15. K.Selvaraji, Ch Pharmcist

16. A.Amirthalingam, SIPF/SIB

The following Officers/ Supervisors received award from Member (Rolling Stock) (Recommended by the respective PHODs/CHODs) on 20.06.2017 for their outstanding performance during the production year 2016-2017.

ICF CIRCULARS

Colony

North

East

East

WestSouth

North

Post

Vice chairman

Member

Member

Name & Designation

Smt Hema Ramesh, APO/Rect. in place of Sri. P.K.Sudhakar, APO/Bills

Dilip KumBollepalli, Health inspector in place of Sri. R.Baskaran, Health inspector

S.Maharajan, Inspector/RPF in place of Sri. P.Karuppuswamy, Inspector/RPF

Integral NewsJuly-2017

s PB/LW/34/R/11/S/Vol.III dt 21.06.2017:

s PB/LW /200/Misc./Vol. III Dated :16.06.2017

The shift timings of Shop-82 Supervisors and Inspectors for the Saturday have been revised as 16.30 to 20.45 hrs instead of 12.30 to 16.45 hrs.

Availing of Personal Loan from Nationalized Bank of late, it has been noticed that some of the employees, due to extreme circumstances in their families, have availed personal loans at exorbitant interest rates from money lenders / Private Financiers.

Consequently, they are under tremendous financial stress and driven to extreme steps without exploring alternative feasibilities.

With a view to facilitate the employees, who are in acute financial need, ICF is making an endeavor, purely on humanitarian grounds, to mitigate the financial problems being faced by the employees. As a staff welfare measure, ICF will request the nationalized banks to come forward by way of offering loans at reasonable rates on certain terms and conditions to the needy employees to ease their stress.

The employees who are interested to avail this opportunity may contact the respective Staff & Welfare Inspectors of their shops / office or Welfare Centers located in Shell Administrative Office and Furnishing Administrative Office.

Seniority list of Ministerial Staff and DMS Staff Of Stores Department, Ministerial Staff, Staff & Welfare Inspector of Personnel Department, Ministerial Staff of Mechanical Department, have been published. Representation if any should be submitted before 31.08.2017.

th Top three students who have secured highest marks in 10 & th12 Standard are eligible for Award from SBF. Last date for

submission of application is 10.07.2017.

Civil Services, Computer education and other Job oriented exams awareness special camp was organized by ICF Institute for benefit of wards of ICF Employees @ all four Colonies.

We deeply mourn the sudden demise of the following staff

SI. Name Designation Pay UnitNo. Shop / Office

1 Gopalakrishnan Sr.Tech/Carp. Shop-30

2 Ganesan Sr.Tech/MDMRR Shop-48

3 Indupalli Samuel Raju Sr.Tech/FGL Shop-33

4 Magesh Babu Tech-III/Welder Shop-21

JE, Tech-II, Jr.Clerk, Peon Posts in Electrical Dept. of Diesel Loco Component Factory, Dankuni/ER : 04.08.2017.

Act Apprentice in Southern Railway 15.07.2017

Last Date for submission of application:

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thICF Foot Ball Team won the 17 Don Bosco Foot Ball Trophy held at Madurai, Tamil Nadu from 22.05.2017 to 28.05.2017.

ndICF Cricket Team secured SECOND Place in the 2 Division Plate Tournament held at Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 23.05.2017.

Shri. Syed Anwar Sha Zuli Y, Progressman secured State Level Chess Championship held at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu from 20.05.2017 to 25.05.2017

s RB/2017/CE-I/CT/4/GST dt 23.06.2017:

s RB/E(NG)I-2008/PM1/6 Part dt 23.06.2017:

s 2015/F(E)III/NC(JCM)/DC(JCM)/SCOVA dt 4.5.2017:

s 2005/H/6-4/Policy-I dt 01.06.2017:

s RB/E(W)2017/PS5-1/2 dt 14.06.2017:

s RBE 47/2017:

s RBE 48/2017:

s RBE 49/2017:

s RBE 50/2017:

s RBE 51/2017:

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s RBE 54/2017:

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s RBE 60/2017:

Compliance with GST act 2017- change in para (a) of clause 6 Part-I of Indian Railways Standard General Conditions of contract, July 2014.

Staff from same grade pay/pay may be allowed to appear in selection for GDCE only in case the selection is from Non-safety to safety posts.

Stoppage of recovery of wrong / excess payments from Railway pensioners.

Proforma for claiming medical reimbursement by Railway Medical beneficiaries

Validity of kit passes and journey passes issued on account of transfer/ settlement/ death.

Liberalization of provisions for withdrawl from PF

Encashment of LAP while availing Privilege Pass/ PTO – relaxation of rule.

Revision of pension of pre 2016 pensioners/ family pensioners etc.

Revision of minimum rate of wages and variable DA wef 01.04.2017

Leave upto a period of 90 days may be granted to an aggrieved female employee on the recommendations of internal committee, during the pendency of inquiry under sexual harassment of women at workplace and the leave shall not be debited against the leave account.

Discontinuance of Natural Calamity Advance.

Amendments in the Apprenticeship rule, 1992.

Railway officers/ staff on their appointment in PSUs/ Societies etc on permanent/ immediate absorption basis maybe permitted to retain their Railway quarter for a period of 2 months on payment of nominal rent / licence fee. Retention of quarter beyond 2months, shall be treated as un-authorised and shall be liable for recovery of damage

/ penal rent.

Grant of revised DA w.e.f. 01.01.2017 for CPF beneficiaries in receipt of ex-gratia payment.

Initial/ Promotional training of supervisors at TTC for all production units.

RAILWAY BOARD CIRCULARS

Integral NewsJuly-2017

Improvements made in Diesel Electric Tower Car (DETC) with twin cab, twin engine, under slung electrical propulsion system coach.

Both driver and the additional seats resized to enable adequate passage for movement.

Swing door provided at the passage between driver cab and compartment.

Gap between driver desk and lookout glass covered.

Drain hole provided in the door way.

Additional handles provided in the observation dome.

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In order to eliminate interdependancy of loadig of fuel tank, the existing arrangement of cable routing through conduit above fuel tank with the help of welding of earth boss has been replaced with the provision of single MS tray instaead of conduit pipes at shell atge itself.

Kolkata metro coaches cantrails are welded with back pieces for fixing the sliding door top rail. During welding the cantrails are getting distorted due to heat resulting in rejection during inspection. Hence ICF has made one fixture in which cantrails are fixed and welded to avoid distortion. Inview of the above, rejection rate of cantrails are reduced substantially.

Of the section length of 25.612kms from Aluva Metro Station to Petta Metro Station, of Phase-I of Kochi Metro Rail Project, on completion of the works under Reach-I from Aluva to Palarivattom, with a section length of 13.4kms and 11 stations, the Reach–I from Aluva to Palarivattom was inaugurated by The

thHonourable Prime Minister Shri.Narendra Modi on the 17 June 2017. After the inaugural function, the Reach –I section was

thopened to general public on the 19 June 2017.

RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN ICF COACHES

ICF Institute was recently renovated and renamed as Mahakavi Bharathi Institute. It was inaugurated way back on 4th of December in the year 1954, prior to the inception of ICF. In those days entertainment was not much and the Institute served the employees as a recreation centre. Various Programmes,

Competitions, Fairs and Food carnivals were held for the employees and their families. This paved way for all the employees to unite together as a single ICF family. Besides this, Stage dramas of popular productions were staged and movies were screened at Dr. Ambedkar Arangam.

Later after introduction of satellite channels in mid and late nineties and the domination of computers, Institute started losing its charm. Members preferred to sit back at home and watch televisions and children were busy playing games on computers. The result indicated that the numbers of users are coming down drastically as days go by.

To bring back the lost glory of Institute, ICF administration planned to renovate it. After completion of the work, it ended up as a wonderful recreation club. Various facilities to latest needs were added and it started gaining attraction.

The Institute has an established Library and a Reading room. The library has around 2700 novels. There are varieties of novels in English written by famous authors like Sidney Sheldon, Jeffrey Archer, and Ken Follett and in Tamil the novels of famous writers like Sujatha, Amudha Ganesan and Ramani Chandran are found on the racks. Readers who love to read the ancient history can look forward for the book of Chandilyan. A person entering the reading room can find lot of newspapers and weekly magazines arranged neatly in the desk. He can pick any leading newspaper or magazine to his choice in the language of English or Tamil. For the benefit of employees who have settled in Chennai from other parts of our country, newspapers and magazines of other south Indian language and Hindi are available.

Sports lovers, who wish to practice, have lot of indoor attractions like Caroms, Chess, Table Tennis and Shuttle Badminton. A rink is also constructed for the children to skate around in open air. A well equipped modernized Gymnasium is available for fitness. Separate time slots are allotted for men and women for their convenience. All the above facilities are available at a minimum cost of Rs50/- towards subscription for a month. After sweating out, one can make use of the purified cool water dispenser placed outside the gymnasium to quench their thirst.

An air-conditioned Computer class room with computers, where 30 students can be taught in a batch has been opened recently to impart basic computer education. Adjacent to this, there is another class room where Communicative English course is currently going on. Both the courses are started with a view to educate Computer and English for the children to enrich knowledge at the blooming stage especially to enhance their employment skills. The course fee is reasonable and around 20 students are making use of the course. Admission for the course is open to all including non railway men. Employees and students who wish to have a break can come out and sip a cup of Tea or coffee from the Automatic vending kiosk and refresh themselves. Another entertainment is the LED television that one can look forward for a break.

Besides the above, the Dr Ambedkar Auditorium has also been renovated. It boasts with a new interior look with more amenities, where stage dramas, cultural programmes, and meetings are regularly held. The auditorium is fully air-conditioned with a seating capacity of 640 persons. Better sound and lighting system are the main features of the hall.

To avail all the above facilities, an employee should enroll as a member and subscribe a bare minimum amount of Rs30/- a month, which would be deducted at salary source. As we all know about the cost of membership in private sports and recreation club in the city, our Institute is a real boon for us. It is heartening to know that already around 8000 employees have enrolled themselves as members. It is high time that they productively use the facilities provided, by visiting Institute with family members during leisure time. M.G. Shanker / PRO

Mahakavi Bharathi (ICF) Institute –A recreation & educational centre