Central Railway prepares 1.28 lakh masks and more than 7 K litres hand sanitizer

Pune, 22 April 2020 – In the wake of pandemic COVID19, Central Railway is producing essential items like masks and sanitizer in-house which can be utilized by health care workers and railway staff deployed in essential duty.

Pune Division tops with 33,435 in preparing masks and Mumbai Division tops with 1685 litres of hand sanitizer. In all Central Railway has prepared 1,28,543 masks and 7,118 litres of hand sanitizer. Division wise break up is given below:

Workshops at Matunga and Parel – 13,200 masks and 1,600 litres of sanitizer

Mumbai Division – 23,672 masks and 1,685 litres of sanitizer

Nagpur Division – 23,986 masks and 1,383 litres of sanitizer

Solapur Division – 10,250 masks and 500 litres of sanitizer

Pune division – 33,435 masks and 1,110 litres of sanitizer

Bhusaval Division – 24,000 masks and 840 litres of sanitizer

Kalyan Railway School which is more than a century old school also joined the fight by voluntarily preparing masks and hand sanitizer for RPF, railway personnel on duty and others. This initiative of Shri Shalab Goel, Divisional Railway Manager, Mumbai Division, Central Railway and Shri Jacob Thomas, Principal, Kalyan Railway School with the help of voluntary contribution from like minded persons has been appreciated by one and all. So far, they have prepared 6,500 masks (simple, single and double layered with pleats) and 2,500 bottles of hand sanitizer (in 500 ml and 100 ml bottles).