23 July 2020

Indian Railways’ Initiatives

Shramik Special Trains

● Shramik Special Trains started from Shramik Diwas (1st May)

● 4,615 Shramik Specials operated● May: 4109

● June: 493

● July: 13

○ 63.1 lakh passengers moved

● Demand of State Governments fully met

● Last Shramik Special Train ran on 9th July

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Railway Coaches - COVID Care Center

● 5231 Coaches converted into COVID Care Centres

● Guidance Document: MOHFW issued on 6 May

● Team Work

● Standard Operating Procedure: Railways and State

Governments

● 813 Coaches (12,472 beds) deployed [DLI-503, UP-270, Bihar-40]

These Covid care coaches are to be used in areas where State

has exhausted the facilities and needs to augment capacitates for

isolation of both suspect & confirmed COVID cases

Freight Loading (in Million Tonnes)

4

101 105 101.3

71

378

6582

93.3

66

307

APRIL MAY JUNE JULY APRIL-JULY

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July loading comparison is till 16 July

Increased Food Grain Loading

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2.6 3.1 3.12.2

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6.24.9 5.1

3.6

19.7

APRIL MAY JUNE JULY APRIL-JULY

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2019 2020

+80%

Food grains - Mainly Rice, Wheat, Maize, Pulses etc

Faster Delivery of Goods

● 64 % Increase in average speed in 2020-21 (vis a vis last year)

● 93 % increase in speed in July 2020 compared to July 2019

23.21 23.3

38.06

44.8

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10

20

30

40

50

Annual Average Monthly Average

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km

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Average Speed of Goods Train

2019-20 2020-21

Special Passenger Trains ● 30 Special Rajdhani Trains (2 cancelled on State Govt request)

● 200 Special Mail Express Trains (4 cancelled on State Govt

request)

● Occupancy of these trains is being monitored regularly

● Occupancy on 23 July

○ 0-30%: 40 trains

○ 30-50%: 19 trains

○ 50-75%: 25 trains

○ 75-100%: 42 trains

○ >=100%: 58 trains

● Overall Occupancy: 75 %

● More trains will be run as per requirement

Digital India

Digital Rail Initiatives

● Freight Operations

● Passenger Operations & Ticketing Service

● Material Management

● Fixed Asset Management

● Rolling Stock Asset Management

● Human Resource Management

● E-Office, e -Training, Dashboard for Public – RAIL DRISHTI

All Key processes of IR Digitized

GPS /GAGAN/IRNSS

CRIS DC in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

IR’s Enterprise network

Mobile Service Provider Network

SatCom

Hub

Central Location

Server (CLS)

Divisional

COA server

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Divisional

COA server

n

Loco-device

monitoring/config mgmt

system (LMCS)

NTES

139 call

centerWebsite

Mobile

App

Other

Systems

Central Application

Server

Movement

update

Loco

Device

Satellite Tracking of Trains Real Time Information System (RTIS)

Satellite Tracking of trains

• Track Trains through ISRO satellite

• Captures real time data relating to speed and location of the Trains

• For real time communication to passengers about arrival / departures

• Analytics for improved operation

• Phase I- Fitted on 2,700 electric locomotives and functional

• 3,800 diesel locomotives also integrated

• Phase II - Additional 6,000 locomotives by Dec 2021

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Digitial Initiatives in Passenger: Reserved Segment

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● Modernization of PRS Software

● Graphics User Interfcae

● QR-code ticket

● E-Ticketing: Redesign of IRCTC website in progress

● User personalization & facilitation

● Integrated hotel /meal booking

● Simplified & enhanced user interface

● Checks for malified use of individual login

QR-coded PRS ticket

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Railway counter/ website/mobile

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Operator keys inmobile number

2SMS with QR code

URL

3Customer receives QR Code URL as an SMS

4

Passenger will click on the URL during

checking of ticket

5Contact-less Ticket

Checking

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PR

S

QR Code will be displayed on the

user mobile

6TTE will scan the

displayed QR Code

7Ticket details on

TTE’s device

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Revamping of Passenger Reservation Portal

Maximum Functionality &

Clean Design

Availability & Fare Display

of All Train & All Class

Confirmation Probability in

WLEasy filters

Scroll, Select & Book

Digital Initiatives in Passenger: Unreserved Segment

• Mobile ticketing in 9 regional languages,

multiple payment options

• Online recharge of suburban cards, Kolkata

Metro

• QR-codes in tickets, contactless ticket

checking

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Digital Initiatives in Freight & train Operations

● Freight Operations Information System (FOIS), E-

Registration of demand, and E-payment Gateway.

● Integrated Coaching Mgt System (ICMS)

● Control Office Application (COA)

● Crew Management System (CMS)

● Software aided Train Scheduling System (SATSANG)

● Safety Information Management System (SIMS)

● Auto-generation of optimized Loco Links

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Train Operations

• Chalak Dal Mobile app

– Contactless crew sign-on/sign-off

– Abnormality reporting: enhanced

safety

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Fixed Assets : Geo Spatial Mapping

• IR Geo-Portal established and applications developed

• All fixed assets of IR pertaining to track, signaling, OHE, and other

electrical assets mapped

• Authenticated lands plans digitized and geo-referenced

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● Track Management System (TMS)

● Electrical Energy Mgt. System (EEMS)

● Land Management System

● Bridge Management System

● CRS Sanctions Management System

● Projects and Sanctions Management System (IRPSM)

● Traction Distribution Management System (TDMS)

● Signaling Maintenance Management System (SMMS)

Digital Infrastructure Asset Management

App for OHE inspection

● Pan India roll out

● GPS based tracking of patrol man

● Real time capturing of OHE defects and

provision of taking photographs

● Exception alerts

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E-DRISHTI

● Enables the internal management in tracking the key performing indices

pertaining to Indian Railways

● Provides real time information on

● Freight and

Passenger

Earnings

● Freight

Loading and

Unloading

● Punctuality

● UMID

Dashboard

● Shramik

Kalyan

(HRMS) Portal

● Asset

reliability

● Status of

tenders

● Grievance

redressal

● Progress of

Major Projects

etc.

Current

trains

running with

exact time

and location

Live monitoring

of base

kitchens of

IRCTC

Public platform for enhancing transparency in Indian Railways

Single window

platform for all

services

● Ticket Booking

● PNR Enquiry

● Reservation Status

etc.

Interesting facts

● About various

stations in the IR

network

● Freight Earnings

● Freight

(Un)Loading

● PRS Earning

● UTS Earnings

● Expenses

● Shramik Kalyan

etc.

Monitoring

key MetricsLive feeds

● IRCTC Kitchens

● Real time Train

Running Status

RAIL DRISHTI

● E-Office at 106 locations & more

than 1 lakh users

● One of the largest & fastest roll out

● Usage of e-files from July 1, 2020

where e-Office implemented

● Final Phase for balance units is

under sanction and will be rolled out

before Sep-2020

E - Office

● A work flow software for drawings.

● Makes entire drawing preparation/reviews/approvals cycle paperless.

● Controls/updates drawings versions automatically.

● Central & secure storage and access of all the drawings.

● Digitization and storage of all historical drawings.

● Reduces drastically the effort and time consumed in the process of

getting the drawings reviewed and approved.

● Centralized monitoring of all drawing related activities

Will fast track project implementation

Electronic Drawing Approval System (E – DAS)

● Locomotive Asset Management System (LAMS)

● Coaching Maintenance Management System (CMM)

● Freight Wagon Maintenance Mgt. System (FMM)

● Automatic Wagon Identification using RFID

● Smart Yards

● Smart Coaches

I.T. based Rolling Stock Asset Management

Complete Digitization of Goods Procurement

● End to end digitisation covering all stakeholders

● All processes digitised

● Information/documents available in real-time, also on Mobile App

● Digital signature based authentication

● Compliant to IT Act

● All works Tenders issued on Indian Railway e-Procurement System

(IREPS)

● Tender decision on IREPS

Digital Procurement Platforms● Online Tendering and tender decision

○ Indian Railway E-Procurement System (IREPS)

○ Mandatory certification by purchaser for compliance to MII policy.

○ Mandatory Local content declaration by bidders

● Online Contract Management

○ Integrated Materials Management System (IMMS) for goods procurement

○ Works Contract Management System (WCMS ) for works procurement

● Online Inspection

○ RITES, RDSO online inspection Modules

● Online Payments

○ Integrated Payroll and Accounting System (IPAS)

E- Works Contract Management

● Facilitation of contractors

● e-Measurement book implemented

● Automated bill processing

● Online processing of mobilization advance

● Release of Bank Guarantee, Security Deposit

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Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan

Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan

● Beneficiaries - Returnee migrant workers and similarly affected rural

population of 6 states: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,

Rajasthan, Odisha & Jharkhand

● Covers 116 districts in six States

● Duration: 125 days commencing from 20 June, 2020

● 170 railway infrastructure development works

● 11,296 manpower

● 11,67,155 man days

● Rs 1,800 crore

Garib Kalyan Rojgar AbhiyanState wise man-days created/expenditure in last 4 weeks

S.N State Man Days Created

(Man days)

Expenditure

(in crore)

1 Bihar 65,849 178.31

2 Uttar Pradesh 71119 269.01

3 Rajasthan 37473 169.59

4 Madhya Pradesh 34171 77.46

5 Odisha 9797 40.02

6 Jharkhand 2004 3.02

Total 2,20,413 Man days 737.41 crore32

Key Decisions

Taken by Railway Board on 22.7.20

Key Decisions Taken by Railway Board● Critical review of all projects so that the funds are deployed for only

critical, super-critical and projects which augment capacity

● Improvement of speed of certain category of loaded rolling stock from 60

to 75 kmph

● Introduction of 25 ton axle load running on the iron-ore carrying routes

and gradual extension to other routes

● Regular monitoring of electrification of missing links & Traction Sub

Stations

● New specifications to widen competition for electronic in-motion weigh

bridges and improve their reliability.

● Integration of IR’s procurement system with GeM

● Braithwaite and Company Limited to export rolling stock. 34

Thank You