3. INTRODUCTION
• Indian Railways, abbreviated as IR, is the state-owned railway company
of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail transport.
• It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways (Mr. Mallikarjuna Kharge) of
the Government of India.
• It has more than 64,015 kilometers of track and 6,909 stations , making it
the world's fourth largest railway network after those of the United
States, Russia and China.
• As to rolling stock, IR owns over 200,000 (freight) wagons, 50,000
coaches and 8,000 locomotives.
4. USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
FOR GREATER EFFICIENCY
A large complex Infrastructure System such as the
Indian Railways can benefit greatly from the
intelligent use of IT
Objectives
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Freight revenue enhancement
Passenger revenue enhancement
Improved and optimized service
5. CRIS (CENTER FOR RAILWAY
INFORMATION SYSTEM)- INTERNAL
SERVICE PROVIDER FOR IT ON IR
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Design, development and implementation of computer
based information systems and associated communication
networks and products and other systems
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Technical support and services to develop, set up, operate
and maintain any computerised system and the underlying
infrastructure
7. CONCERT
(COUNTRY WIDE NETWORK OF
COMPUTERIZED ENHANCED RESERVATION
AND TICKETING )
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Integrates five Regional
Reservation Centers
Judicious mix local
autonomy with
uniformity of business
rules.
Very complex Business
transactions.
Comprehensive
functionality
8. A SERVICE-ORIENTED IT VISION FOR IR
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E-enabled Freight Management System
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Customer care centers
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Intelligent Stations Infrastructure
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Self service kiosks at Stations
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Operations & Scheduling
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Staff Management
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SMS Gateway
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Payment Gateway
9. PARCEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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Following Functions are covered
Parcel Booking, Cancellation and Loading
Monitoring and tracking of Parcels
Printing of Parcel labels
Networking of all parcel offices
10. SIGNALLING MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM(SMMS)
• SMMS application will integrate various signalling for
data inspection, health and inventory monitoring.
• Day-to-day maintenance activity and related
information can be made available on-line.
• On-field data entry of maintenance status of signalling
devices.
12. CONCLUSION
• Usage of IT has surely helped IR in improving their Quality
of Services.
• Citizens using IR have been benefitted in many ways, eg:
Time, money and energy saved.
• The work pressure of IR employees has reduced to some
extent.
• Railways accidents have decreased considerably.