COACHING VEHICLE CENSUS
Coaching
Vehicle census is conducted as and when, the directives are received from
Railway Board.
Prior to conducting a coaching vehicle census, CPTM holds a meeting and instructs
the census
officials. The month, date time of census is notified to all the staff
involving in census. Unlike,
goods wagon census, coaching vehicles census is not laborious, as the vehicles
are generally
run in rakes and they are keenly monitored daily. A Cardex system in the
coaching cabinet
was a method to monitor the movement of individual coaches. After full
implementation of
COIS, the monitoring of the movement of coaches will be further made easy.
All
the staff involved in the census duties are to be briefed about their
responsibilities. A mock census
has to be conducted on the nominated day prior to the official census. The
lacunae in the mock
drill are to be identified and corrected. During the enumeration each vehicle
should be stenciled
by a census symbol of equilateral of six inches each side in white colour at
extreme left of
the vehicles on both sides. A representative of mechanical branch also involved
to identify the mechanical
code of the wagons. Each railway should update the list of the condemned
vehicles after
the last census was held, with necessary details, well before the census. The
census timings are
to be followed strictly.
Advantages in coaching vehicle census:
a)
To know the location of loading vehicles and their status.
b)
To identify and take them to the maintenance depot in case the coaches have
become due for POH
and other repairs.
c)
To identify the area where excessive holding exist, which leads to coaching
yard congestion.
d)
To compare the requirements with that of allotment and to suggest better
supply.
e)
To compile the utilisation statistics and to see the viability for future
utilisation.
f)
For introduction of new coaching trains.
