It is largest railway system in world under one management
It is a lifeline of country
It is biggest civilian employer in the world
No strike in last 30 years in spite of 17 lakh workers
Always targeted by public during any rally, agitation etc
GENERAL
Indian Railways covers 64000 of route km along length & width of the country
It runs 12000 trains every day
it carry 1.5 crore passengers & 17 lakh tonnes of goods every day
It is fuel efficient system
INFRASTRUCTURE
Railways has 7500 engines,38000 coaches & about 2.5 lakh of wagons
7000 stations & about 500 computerized passenger reservation centers
1 lakh km of track
15 lakh employee(10 lakh in Group C) including 10000 officers
6 lakh staff Qrs
Biggest township Kharagpur has 12000 qrs
ORIGIN & DEVELOPMENT
1947 Post partition 21 railway systems----10 owned by the GOI and balance by princely states. Total integration of princely state railways completed by first April 1950
1951 Southern, Central and Western Railways SR, CR&WR created
1952 Northern, Eastern and North Eastern Railways, NR,ER&NER created
1955 South Eastern Railways, SER created
1958 North East Frontier Railways, NFR created
1966 South Central Railways, SCR created 2002 East Central & North Western Railways created in October
2003 South Western , West Central, North Central, South Eastern Central & East Coast Railway, SWR, WCR, NCR, SECR and ECoR created in April 2003
Speed
Shatabdi trains can run at maxm speed of 140 kmph
Rajdhani maxm 130 kmph
Superfast trains 110 kmph
Other mail & exp 110kmph but more stoppage
Goods train maxm 100 kmph
ORGANISATION
3 tier Management
Top – Railway board or Ministry of Railways headed by Chairman Railway Board
Middle -16 zones headed by General Managers
Bottom -68 divisions headed by Division Railway Managers
Budget
Railway earns mainly from goods traffic
Daily expenditure is about Rs 100 cr (42% staff, 18% fuels)
Daily earnings Rs140 cr
daily loss on uneconomic branch line Rs 8 cr
Department
Railway has its own cadre & consists of 9 Deptt ( 8 wheel & 1 brake)
Technical- 4 Engineering,mechanical, electrical & signal
Non technical- 5
Traffic, personel,,stores, security& finance
Production units
Chitranjan loco works at Chitranjan for electrical engine
Diesel loco works,Varanasi for Diesel Engine
Coach factory at Perambur & Kapurthala
Railwheel factory at Bangalore
Diesel componet works at Patiala
PSU
Indian railway catering & tourism co (IRCTC)
Indian railway constn comp (IRCON)
Rail india technical services(RITES)
Container corporation (concor)
Rail tel corparation (Rail tel)
Konkan railway corpo Ltd (KRCL)
Mumbai rail vikas corporation (MRVC)
Rail Vikash Nigam Ltd (RVNL)
Rail Land Dev Authority(RLDA)
Dedicated freight corridor co Ltd
Research
Research Design & Standardisation Organisation (RDSO) in Lucknow –in house research organisation
It is an integrated organisation for track & rolling stock
responsible for developing and testing of new technology and design related to railways
TRAINING
OFFICERS
Railway staff college,Vadadara- General training for all Railway officers
Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management (IRITM) at Lucknow-Traffic deptt
Cenntral training academy for Railwyays accounts-Account deptt
Training (contd)
Supervisors and staff
Zonal training centre
Divisional training school
Others like drivers,engineering training schools
177 training institutes for training of non gazetted staff
25% of officers and 17% of staff are trained annually
Public concern
Availability of Reservation
PRS irrespective of presence of Railway - cover more than 90% of population including each district HQ etc,(720 no)
tatkal booking, Internet booking
PNR enquiry.
It runs additional service in festivals,summer & winter holiday
information for passengers on internet, ivrs
Public Concern
Safety & punctuality -generally good but adverse publicity is more .Annual deaths in Railways are much lesser than Road Accidents
Cleanliness of stations ,waiting halls etc
Cleanliness of trains , toilets & linen supplied in trains- serious concern. Lot of attention is being paid but lot is to be done. depend on civic sense of rail users also
Hygienic food – now IRCTC is setup to improve catering at stations & trains
All information available in timetable & internet at www.indianrail.gov.in
Railways concern
Not able to fix fare as per cost -
i) loss in suburban service
ii) loss due to increase in cost of diesel
Not able to close uneconomic branch line-yearly loss 2500 cr
Political interference in investment decision
Not able to meet public demand for more seats in few sector &run empty trains in others
Need Rs50000 cr to complete on going projects
Commercial vs Social
Railway has social obligation to run transport service for all the area of country irrespective of profit motive. It can not close uneconomic lines
It can not increase fare due to adverse political impact even though fuel cost mounting
It has to generate enough resources for efficient maintenance & replacements of assets on its own
Any question is most welcome
THANKS
Tree plantation
Does Tree plantation along the Railway line , in colony & on surplus vacant land
Ornamental tree in offices , stations
residence compounds ,level xing
Now energy plantation is thrust area – Jatropha curcus (biodiesel)
Railway plant about 20 lakhs tree every year
Dedicated freight corridor
Railways will construct two dedicated freight corridor from calcutta to Amritsar & Mumbai to Delhi via Ahmadabad-Jaipur
It will cost about Rs1.0 lakh cr & will be funded by railways own resources
2 yr plg +5 year construction
Numbering of trains
4 digit numbering for express & 3 digit for passenger trains
Tr no starting with 2 –superfast
First digit –zone 2 nd digit –divn & last 2 digit train identity
All Rajdhani except serving WR(29) & ER(23) are NR trains & starts with number 24
All shatabdi trains starts with number 20 & last two digit vary from 01 to 84
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