CAG rapped railways for flouting upkeep norms
Looking at the railways safety record for 2003-08, CAG had slammed it for not adhering to maintenance schedules and falling short of inspections required. The CAG report also noted that between 2003 and 2008, not much was done by the railways to improve its signalling and telecommunication systems. Both the systems play a crucial role in preventing train mishaps.
On the issue of manpower shortage, CAG noted that it existed in the railway departments dealing with safety.
It pointed out that there were 22,883 posts vacant in the safety category against a sanctioned strength of 1,92,165 as on March 31, 2008.
In the civil engineering department, there were vacancies of 55,579 posts as against 2,62,416 posts while in the electrical department the number of vacancies were 1,316 as against the sanctioned strength of 7,315 during that period.
Further, there were also vacancies of 6,324 posts against the strength of 52,807 in mechanical department and all these posts are in safety category.
In its report, CAG had also expressed its dissatisfaction with the railways the installation and functioning of the ACD was not satisfactory.
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Madhuri’s custody extended
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
A day after the Delhi police has filed the chargesheet against the beleaguered diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accused of allegedly passing sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence officials, a Delhi court on Wednesday extended her judicial custody by three days till July 24. As the Tis Hazari court chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja was on leave, link Magistrate Geetanjali, after hearing the plea of both the prosecution and the defence, extended Gupta’s judicial custody till July 24. The accused was produced before the court after her judicial custody expired on Wednesday.
The police have on Tuesday chargesheeted the IFS grade-B officer for allegedly passing secret information to Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) during her posting in Islamabad in Pakistan.
The chargesheet, running over 700-page, filed before the CMM court had sought the prosecution of the officer under various provisions of the Official Secrets (OS) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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