INDIAN RAILWAYS
NETWORK AND ITS
ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
Noble George Joseph
Roll No : 1020320
INTRODUCTION
• Indian Railways is more than 150 year old
• It is a lifeline of country
• It’s the largest railway network in Asia and the
world’s second largest under one management
• It is biggest civilian employer in the world
• Always targeted by public during any rally,
agitation etc
GENERAL
Indian Railways covers 63028 of route km along length & width
of the country
It runs 11000 trains every day
It carries 1.5 crore passengers & 17 lakh tonnes of goods
every day
It is fuel efficient system
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Railways has 7566 engines,37840 coaches & about 222147 wagons
• 7000 stations
• 1 lakh km of track
• 16 lakh employee(10 lakh in Group C) including 10000 officers
• Biggest township Kharagpur has 12000 qrs
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
• Top –
Railway Board or Ministry of Railways headed by Chairman Railway
Board
• Middle –
16 zones headed by General Managers
• Bottom –
67 divisions headed by Division Railway Managers
PRODUCTION UNITS
• Chitranjan loco works at Chitranjan for Electrical Engine
• Diesel loco works,Varanasi for Diesel Engine
• Coach factory at Perambur & Kapurthala
• Rail wheel factory at Bangalore
• Diesel component works at Patiala
ORGIN AND 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
CONT
• 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
DEPARTMENTS
• Railway has its own cadre & consists of 9 Dept (8 wheel & 1 brake)
• Technical- 4
Engineering,Mechanical, Electrical & Signal
• Non technical- 5
Traffic, Personel,Stores, Security& Finance
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
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
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, E booking
• PNR enquiry.
• It runs additional service in festivals,summer & winter holiday
• Information for passengers on internet
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
• Outdated technology of locomotive
• Small and inadequate rail networks.
COMMERCIAL VS SOCIAL
• It can not increase fare due to adverse political impact even though
fuel cost mounting
• 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 has to generate enough resources for efficient maintenance &
replacements of assets on its own
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