Indian Railways launches Sanraksha Mobile App for enhanced safety

HYDERABAD, Nov 28 : Indian Railways launched ‘Sanraksha Mobile ‘ App for enhanced passenger safety on Thursday.
The application has been designed by 2013 batch IRTS Officer Dilip Singh, who is currently working as Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Nagpur, South East Central.
Hyderabad Division of SCR (South Central Railway) has been selected for implementing the safety programs by using Sanraksha mobile application, a release said.
Pan-India launch Mobile Application aims at improving railway safety through capacity building of the Indian Railway’s frontline safety category staff, the release said.
Member Operations and Business Development, Railway Board, Ravinder Goyal launched the Mobile Application through video conferencing from New Delhi, all DRMs, PCOMs, PCCMs, and officers of all divisions of Indian Railways have participated.
Namita Tripathi, DRM Nagpur informed about the implementation of the pilot project in Nagpur division and gave insights on how it has proven useful in enhancing safety in the division.
Now RB has decided to launch the app in all zonal railways with 16 divisions selected initially for rollout.
The application integrates the domain knowledge of Indian Railways with information technology, Data Analytics, and potential leveraging of AI in the future, to provide an intelligent, effective and scalable system to cater to the training and capacity-building needs of railway employees.
It features smart learning and feedback mechanism allowing multi-level, real-time feedback and monitoring possible.
(UNI)