Wagon Workshop, Rayanapadu bags “Most Innovative Environmental Project” Award from CII- IGBC

Implementation of Green Initiatives on South Central Railway has earned yet another recognition, with Wagon Workshop, Rayanapadu getting the award for “Most Innovative Environmental Project” by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) - Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). This prestigious award has been received by the Rayanapadu workshop for presenting the project with regard to the best innovative practices implemented in overhauling of Wagons. The competition has been held by CII- IGBC in the month of July for “8^th CII National Award for Environment Best practices - 2021”.  Among the 200 applicants, 36 companies were shortlisted, who accordingly presented their projects. Among them, the project by Rayanapadu Wagon Workshop was adjudged as the most innovative environmental project and has been awarded a Trophy and certificate.  

Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, SCR congratulated Chief Workshop Manager, Rayanapadu Workshop and his team for obtaining the coveted certification and the recognition from CII- IGBC. He also appreciated the determined efforts in maintaining the Greenery norms in their day to day working, which resulted in the unit receiving the award. General Manager expressed his happiness for the consistent initiatives by all the Divisions and Workshops towards eco-friendly measures in order to get green certifications and green awards, which will help in the environment protection and also reduces carbon emission. 

Brief about the Wagon Workshop, Rayanapadu and the Project

• Wagon Workshop, Rayanapadu, located within the vicinity of Vijayawada city, is one of the premier and modern workshops on Indian Railways catering to the repairs of broad gauge wagons.
• The core activity of the workshop is Periodical overhauling of all types of Goods wagons such as Open, Covered, Flat, Tankers, etc which are used for transportation of different types of commodities.
• The workshop has the maximum green cover which is on the higher side as compared to other industries located in the surrounding areas of this workshop.
• Earlier, in the month of February, 2021, the workshop received Green Co- Platinum rating from CII- IGBC.
• The workshop is having eco-friendly most sustainable Resource conservation machinery such as Welding Simulator, Roller Bearing Cleaning plant, and Multistage Robotic Distributor Valve cleaning machines.
• The salient features of the project implemented in wagon workshop, Rayanapadu for achieving the best innovative practices in overhauling of wagons include -

ü  Welding simulator with Augmented Reality technology is used for imparting training to the welders. It helps in assessing the skill of the welders and guides them for improvement in weak areas.

ü  Automated Roller bearings cleaning plant to ease the cleaning process and to enhance the cleaning quality of dismantled roller bearing components, duly avoiding manual cleaning.

Multistage Ultrasonic Robotic Distributor Valve cleaning machines reduce the human interface for cleaning the intricate parts of the Distributor valves. It also helps in clearing both macro and microparticles by achieving a cleanliness level of up to 130 Microns.