The centre makes an attempt to bridge the hole between classroom idea and the real-world challenges confronted by professionals getting into the railway building sector, says M Robert Rajasekaran, the pinnacle of CDC, who has spent 32 years with the Indian Railways.
As you enter the centre you step into ‘L&T Metropolis Station’ — a reproduction of an actual railway station with a platform shelter, a mainline, and a loop line with factors of crossing — which is used as a part of the coaching programme. The centre additionally has fashions of tracks used within the Western Devoted Freight Hall, Chennai Metro, Hyderabad Metro, and Mumbai Metro to showcase ongoing improvements in railway building.
Built-in studying
India’s largest built-in coaching centre for railway building, CDC was arrange in 2012 and has thus far skilled over 7,600 professionals, says Rajasekaran.
It’s the solely such built-in coaching centre arrange by a personal firm, he provides. Even Indian Railways has separate verticals and coaching centres for every division reminiscent of tracks, signalling, telecommunication and mechanical. All of those working fashions can be found underneath one roof on the CDC, he says.
Other than Indian trainees, the centre additionally attracts attendees from numerous international locations. In India, L&T has been concerned with main metro tasks in Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Kanpur, and Agra. Its abroad gigs are in Mauritius, Dhaka, Jakarta, Dubai, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Hong Kong, amongst different locations.
The trainees embrace technicians and engineers of Indian Railways, Devoted Freight Hall Company, and different authorities and personal organisations.
Sensible information
Rajasekaran says the coaching programme is a mix of hands-on sensible classes and interesting classroom studying.
The centre can accommodate 300 technicians and 180 middle-level managers and/or engineers yearly, overlaying all sides of railway building together with everlasting method works, overhead electrification, signalling and telecommunication, and platform and constructing building.
The classes embrace familiarising with the complicated operation of level-crossing gates; important and loop traces; overhead gear buildings; and level-crossing lounges.
The sensible classes at a number of workshops embrace the assembling and dismantling of overhead gear.
Every materials, together with nuts and bolts, used within the building of railway overhead gear, tracks, and signalling and telecommunication gear are on show on the centre, Rajasekaran says.
Harshita Purswani, Engineering Supervisor, Design (Railways), L&T Building, who was skilled on the CDC, says the centre helped her hone the sensible expertise wanted in her day-to-day work.
“Whereas the core studying occurs on the job, at website, the CDC helps us construct a stable basis,” she says.
Aditya Bahadur Pal, Senior Engineer, Mission Management and Monitoring Cell, Metro Enterprise Unit, L&T Building, says the CDC goes past elementary coaching to equip personnel to sort out a spread of sensible challenges encountered in metro building, thereby “fast-tracking our means to contribute extra meaningfully to the tasks”.
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