Kolkata: As a part of Eastern Railway’s continuous endeavour to augment the ability of disaster management, Sealdah Division has conducted a full scale drill at Dhubulia.
As a part of the drill, it was reported that Train No. 03290 Lalgola – Sealdah passenger special, while passing Dhubulia station, got derailed and three General Class coaches have been affected where 2 passengers died, 10 passengers grievously injured & 12 passengers sustained simple injury. Accident Relief Medical Van and Accident Relief Train/Ranaghat was called for rescue operations. Self Propelled Accident Relief Medical Van/Beliaghata and Accident Relief Train/Beliaghata proceeded to the site. 140 Ton crane, Accident Relief Train & Medical Van from Sealdah were also rushed to the accident site.
The team of Sealdah Division and National Disaster Relief Force jointly started the evacuation work and rescuing virtual passengers. In a joint operation, 30 nos. of virtual passengers were evacuated from the coaches and proper medical treatment was rendered. The seriously injured passengers were sent to Sealdah BR Singh Hospital.
In this mock drill exercise two basic things were practiced:-
a) How to remove passengers stranded at different places in coaches by cutting those with modern equipments.
b) It was practiced with state-of-the- art equipments such as high capacity cutter, separator, plasma cutting etc.
The joint exercise was started at 09.30 hrs. It was declared as Mock Drill at 12.50 hrs to ease off the situation and the drill was completed after complete restoration.
In this joint mock drill, Rescue Team of about 44 nos. of NDRF personnel, Divisional Disaster Rescue Team, 37 nos. of Civil Defence & Fire Brigade staff participated. Apart, 6 doctors, 31 paramedical staff, 16 from Scouts and Guides and 40 RPF contingents took active participation in the rescue operations.
The drill was conducted under the dynamic leadership of Deepak Nigam, Divisional Railway Manager, Sealdah. Sujit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Divisional Safety Officer, Pawan Kumar, Sr. Divisional Commercial Officer and other Divisional Officers actively participated in this mock drill.
The main objective of such mock drill is to review maximum alertness, emergency preparedness & to evaluate Standard Operating Procedure of both Railway and NDRF team.
