Its about indian railways and the problam faced by indian railways

1. Indian Railways at the
crossroads

2. Members
Manu Jacob Sabu
Swetha Ramakrishnan
Neha Malhothra
Aasha J
Siddarth Ala
Surendra Prassana R
Damisetty S S D Anudeep

3. introduction
• Indian Railway was the largest railway network
under a single management in the world.
• Indian Railway was called as the life line of India
• Indian Railway was also the largest employer of
the world.(1.6 Million people as per 2003
• Only Department that present a budget to the
Parliament Separate from the annual general
budget

4. history
• The development of
Indian Railway had its
roots in the 1800s
• The British East India
Company and British
Company and British
Colonial Govt. were
credited with starting a
railway system in India.

5. • The first commercial passenger train ran from
Bombay to Thane on April 16 1853.
• British introduced a system to promote
construction of railway lines.(Guarantee
System)
• Under this system the company constructed
railway lines in india was given a guarantee of
five percent return per annum on the capital
invested.

6. • By 1870 india had total track coverage of 4000
miles.
• By 1880 the coverage was increased to 9000
miles
• 1890 The British government passed the
Railway Act, to govern the construction and
operation of railways in india, By the begging
of 20th century coverage was expanded to
25000 miles.
• (1 k/m = .621 miles)

7. • After the independence in 1947, the railway
systems and lines has to be changed due to
the partition.
• The during 1950 the zonal grouping was done
with first the Southern Railway.
• By 1980s Indian railway introduced
computerised ticketing and online reservation
service at New Delhi
• In 2000 The official IR website was Introduced.

8. • 1981, Train fell of to
Bagmati River in the state
of Bihar. One of the
biggest accident Reported

9. Operations of Indian Railway
• Indian Railway operated as a department of the government with
the minister for Railways being the highest authority.
• The Railway Budget was presented in the Parliament before the
general budget.
• The Indian Railway relied on three sources of financing for
operation, (Budgetary support, Market borrowings and Internal
sources).
• It provided a number of benefits to its employees and their
families, like free education for children in railway schools and
colleges, free medical aid,travel concessions.
• Indian Railways played an important role during times of
calamity

10. The Issues
• The organisation is too
large too show flexibility in
adapting to the changing
requirements.

12. Safty
• The main resources for accident were either engineering or maintenance
faults or what was called as “Human Failure”.
• It is because the operation of IR started since 1880s so the tracks and
bridges were 100 years old.
• Human error is an importent factor because the train drivers and staff worked
long hours and at odd times
• The working conditions too were quite bad and the often did not have basic
facilities.
• Some other factor for issues are obliged by Indian Railway since equipments
purchase was made from government run factories and their was no
guarantee on its quality.
• Unlike most developed countries unauthorized people were not allowed to
come near the tracks, but in india its easily accessible.

13. Competition From
Roadways and Airlines
• Due to the fright the Passenger traffic fell from 80% to 20% in
early 2000s.
• The flight charges were reduced to attract more business.
• The rate of the economy class in flight were matched with the
first class of trains.
• The traffic volume ratio 1:4 during independence was reduced
to 4:1 during 2000s.
• Some of the other factors affected Indian Railway rates were
:Bureaucracy and operational inflexibility, high operational
costs, Huge debt and Huge Pensions and other benefits.

14. Towards a better Indian
Railways
• Privatisation is one of the
ways, it can be partial or
complete.
• The Indian Railway system
can be broken into several
smaller units that take care
of specific functions like
track maintenance,
operations, booking. These
smaller units can be
supported with private firms.

15. • HUB & SPOKE system can be implemented,
this system let’s the Indian Railway system to
reduce the Operation Cost.
• This system allocates tracks for private users
like the Airport allowing private users to use
the service and operate.
• Restructuring of Railway Board to Make it
more relevent to the current economic
requirements

17. Organization Structure of Indian Railway

18. Thank You