nagpur the central railway has mapped over 2 lakh employees and their family members under its railway family monitoring drive launched due to concerns over covid19 of these 2 lakh 92000 are staffers and 108 lakh are family membersthe drive was launched more than a week ago to look into the concerns of employees and their families during these uncertain times we checked the health status of more than two lakh employees and their family members in the state contractual staff and allied workers are also included said chief public relations officer cpro shivaji sutar the central railway idea has been appreciated by the railway board and has been adopted by other railway zones the main aim is to be in regular contact with all the employees of the central railway keeping a record of their health status and providing adequate support during the lockdown period sutar saidsanjeev mittal general manager central railway said this campaign will be further enriched to higher levels of cooperative support in the ongoing fight against the covid19 pandemic to instill solidarity among the employeesthe role of human resource department which has coordinated with other departments for this initiative is worth mentioning he addsdr ak sinha principal chief personnel officer said a message has been sent to all the railway staff and officers to maintain a contact dairy at the end of the day in which they are supposed to list down the names and details of people they have met during the day to help track contacts if someone turns covid19 positivesinha also said the resourcefulness of divisional railway managers of all the divisions nagpur solapur pune mumbai bhusawal under central railway have made it possible to cross the figure of 2 lakhexplaining the benefits of the drive cpro sutar said every employee has been contacted and mapped locationwise so that in case of an emergency help can reach them quickly this onetoone contact programme enabled us to get the arogya setu app downloaded by almost all the employees and additional 50000 pensioners as wellfamilies of the employees have been counselled that frontline staff will be required to keep essential services running and that the administration is with them to take care of their needs all the information on personal protection and measures to contain the spread of covid19 are being shared with all the employees and their familiessutar further said that committees at colony level have been activated and other local committees formed with the help of employees and railway union members these committees are taking care of employees daytoday needsvarious cooperative societies of railways have been activated and colonywise duty has been assigned to nominated members for provision of groceries etc he said