CASH-COIN. “I dropped off my parents and used the machine for a platform ticket since they ask for it at LTT but when I came back a month later to pick them the machine kept making noises but there was no actual ticket coming out,” he said. As a result, Central Railway (CR), which has received 48 of these machines two months ago, is yet to install them on stations.. But, it has not been able to do so and it also has a problem with the `5 coins and is unable to read them, “The main issue is that the fat Rs5 coins with the smaller circumference is not being accepted by the vending machines,” said the official.

They should have first bought the machines, tried them out on a trial basis and then launched them,” said a CR official on the condition of anonymity.In order to use the COTVM machine, one has to insert the exact change into the slot and the ticket of the same amount is belted out by the machine. Commuters like Roger Fernandes who is a resident of King Circle and often travels to Goa via LTT said that he thought it would save a lot of trouble especially when he has to drop off his family as a platform ticket is required but the machine failed him miserably.CR had launched these machines after the inauguration at Dadar, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) and Thane but commuters soon began to complain about problems.

The Cash-Coin-Ticket-Vending-Machine (COTVM) inaugurated by Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu on October 9 is currently gathering dust in storage due to faulty software used in the machine.These vending machines are stored in the storage spaces high speed knitting machine located at different stations as they have issues like overlapping tickets, tickets choking up in the machine and when the money swallows the money without issuing a ticket at all, “The COTVM was announced and launched prematurely.jpg The Cash-Coin-Ticket-Vending-Machine (COTVM) inaugurated by Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu on October 9 is currently gathering dust in storage due to faulty software used in the machine

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A team from Philips company, the manufacturer of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine of civic-run Nair Hospital, visited the hospital following the death of Rajesh Maru (32), who was sucked into the MRI machine along with the oxygen cylinder on Saturday evening.The company’s engineering team has inspected the machine and submitted an initial report.

Experts from Philips company and four heads of radiology departments of civic-run Nair, Cooper, Sion and KEM hospitals met Knitting Machine Suppliers on Wednesday. The sole MRI machine at Nair is not operational since Saturday. Four days after the incident, the civic body reiterated to medical staff the safety protocols associated with such diagnostic machines whose magnetic field pulls in any metal object..The hospital has a Philips Achieva 1. They need to remove the helium to disable the machine’s magnetic field to conduct complete repair work,” he said.5t Nova dual gradient scanner.A senior doctor said, “The company’s team has examined the machine, and they have suggested the changes, but since it is a police case, we will require police’s permission to re-open it.

Philips will submit a technical report to assess damage to the machine to the BMC.”A Philips official who inspected machine said, “The repair work will start in a day or two.The company’s engineering team has inspected the machine and submitted an initial report.The team will submit a detailed report in two days as part of the ongoing inquiry.Dr Avinash Supe, a director of major BMC-run hospitals, said the civic body has put up posters about safe practices related to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans at its hospitals in the form of an advisory

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The monorail authorities called the fire brigade to resolve the issue.       Mumbai: Mumbai monorail services stopped for more than an hour on Sunday after a lag caused due to an unauthorised cable TV, which got entangled with the cables of the monorail. The services had to be stopped between VNP Marg Junction and Chembur around 3 pm. The monorail authorities called the fire brigade to resolve the issue.

The services were re-started again at 4.40 pm. This comes a day after the services resumed after nine months of the fire incident.“The monorail network wires got entangled with the cable TV wire which crosses over the VNP Marg station. We called the fire brigade immediately who cut off the cable wire,” said Dilip Kawathkar, deputy metropolitan commissioner (Admn), Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).He added, “We are going to lodge a complaint against the cable operator soon.”The corridor had been plagued with the technical glitches in the past too.

In 2016, a technical snag was witnessed after there was tyre burst and tyre detachment due to an issue with a rolling stock. Problems have also arrived due to power failures.  In November 2017, a major fire gutted two rakes of monorail due to a friction between tyre and track. The issue had raked up the lack of security aspects in the corridor. Now the authority has decided to install high-resolution cameras on both ends of the platforms to check the tyres. Also, smoke detectors will be placed closed to the tyres.On Saturday, the authorities had flagged of the Chembur-Wadala corridor after nine months, the services began from 6 am to 10:30 pm.                    

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