By Bhavana Aparajita Shukla

 

Railways Board’s letter Instruction regarding continuous night duty for running staff are issued . Board’s letter stipulates that “Continuous night duty for running staff should be limited to 4 nights with fourth night towards headquarters”.However, it has been observed that railways are violating these instructions by continuing to book running staff after 4 consecutive nights due to absence of alert in CMS. In CMS reports for the month of Oct, Nov &

 

Dec (till date) total 1360, 1224 & 696 cases of Loco Pilots with five & more than five continuous night duty were recorded respectively. Hence CRIS is advised to provide following alerts on crew booking console of on duty Crew Controller at: Outstation: If Running staff has completed three consecutive nights alert should be given “Three consecutive nights completed.”Headquarter: If running staff has completed four consecutive nights alert should be generated upon booking the staff: “Four consecutive nights completed.”CRIS is advised to provide the above alerts in CMS application.