Senior DCM receives ‘Ati Vishisth Rail Seva Puraskar’ award
The Hindu
Senior DCM Vavilapalli Rambabu receives prestigious rail service award for outstanding leadership and rescue efforts.
Senior Divisional Commercial Manager (Sr. DCM) Vavilapalli Rambabu, working in Vijayawada division of South Central Railway (SCR), received the ‘prestigious Ati Vishisth Rail Seva Puraskar’ award.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw presented the award to Mr. Rambabu at a function held at Pragathi Maidhan at New Delhi on Saturday, the SCR officials said in a release on Sunday.
The Sr. DCM helped rescue nearly 4,000 passengers stranded in the recent floods at Kondapalli and Rayanapadu railway stations. All the passengers were sent to Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati and other destinations by arranging special trains.
The award recipient also played a key role in increasing the revenue of Vijayawada division, Railway officials said.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists