Kolkata, Oct. 13 -- Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer (Freight)/ HQ, Eastern Railway, Rajeev Roushan, has been awarded with the prestigious Ashoka Award 2025 today at Indian Habitat Centre in New Delhi for his trailblazing innovation of the Machine Vision Inspection System (MVIS) of Rolling Stock (Jointly developed by the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, DFC, M/s L2M), installation & improvising of Hot Axle Box Detector (HABD) and operation of Truck on Train (TOT) service over DFC network during his Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFCCIL) tenure.

Every year, the award is given by Charles Walter's Society for Innovation & Research (CWSIR), an independent Research & Innovation Society, prompting and supporting research and innovation thr...