Railways in pact with MRPL for fuel management

NT Correspondent

Mysuru: South Western Railway  (SWR) and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical  Limited (MRPL) will refuel  High-Speed Diesel (HSD) in  railway locomotives as per  a proposal of the Mysuru  division of SWR to implement Total Fuel Management (TFM) with effect from  Wednesday at the Railway  Consumer Depot at Sakleshpur in Hassan district.

The MRPL, a Fortune 500  company has partnered with  Indian Railways to manage  its loco-fueling operations  through automated Total  Fuel Management, the first  of its kind in South Western  Railway. At present, Railway  Consumer Depots (RCDs)  monitor the use of fuel  and expenditure of diesel  manually which could lead  to wastage as well as excess  expenditure.

TFM is a fully automated  online fuel management  system to check pilferage/ wastage and bring transparency in fuel management.  The commissioning of this  system will lead to real-time  information about fuel inventories, its receipt, issue, inspection and fuel tank  calibration and there will be  better management, inventory control while expenditure will also be reduced and  fuel-related information including consumption will be  known on a real-time basis.

Henceforth, RPL will  manage the entire operations of the RCDs, such  as storage and disbursal  of HSD, maintenance of  pumps, pipeline and distribution valves, security and  safety of stored HSD stock  bringing in professionalism  in fuel management.