New Delhi: If you are planning to take an in a single day journey on a train, now we have received some information for you. Now, you’ll have to keep your phones fully charged because the Indian Railways has determined to disallow passengers from utilizing cellular charging stations onboard trains between 11 pm and 5 am. The step has been reportedly taken as a precautionary measure within the wake of current hearth incidents onboard trains.
“It is a Railway Board instruction for all railways. We have started implementing it from March 16,” CPRO of Western Railway, Sumit Thakur, was quoted as saying by PTI information company.
Recently, a hearth had damaged out within the Delhi-Dehradun Shatabdi Express. A coach of the train had caught hearth in a suspected case of a brief circuit. A hearth additionally broke out within the engine of a static items train at a Ranchi station.
Southern Railway CPRO B Guganesan instructed PTI that these directions aren’t new, however a reiteration of earlier orders of the Railway Board.
He mentioned, “In view of the recent incidents of fire, we have done the needful. It is a precautionary measure and even earlier the Railway Board had issued such orders. The power from the main switchboard for these points will be switched off from 11 pm to 5 am.”
This is to be famous that again in 2014, the Commissioner of Railway Safety had advisable that charging stations be switched off between 11 pm and 5 am, quickly after a hearth incident within the Bangalore-Hazur Sahib Nanded Express. The Railway Board had ultimately issued such orders to all rail zones.
In a report on the fires, officers urged that the factors used for charging cellular phones and different digital gadgets must be switched off at evening.
“Many incidents of minor fires, reported onboard long-distance trains, were caused due to overcharging of electronic devices,” the officers mentioned.
(With inputs from PTI)
