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Enterprise Application Assignment 21

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The presentation is an exemplary outcome of the research conducted by the group over the Enterpriseapplication aspects covered in the ‘INDIAN RAILWAY BUDGET 2015-16” presented by RailwayMinister Mr. Suresh Prabhu on 26th February’2015.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the rail budget as a "watershed" moment for IndianRailways and called it "forward looking, futuristic and passenger-centric budget”.

“I have not increased passenger fares. We are directing our efforts to make travel on Indian railwaysa happy experience with a mix of various initiatives” Prabhu.

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Topics covered

Overview of Indian Railway Budget

Highlights

Technology Proposed and its applications

Budgetary Allocations

Benefits

Impacts

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Overview: Indian Railway Budget

Four goals for Indian Railways to transform over next five years:

a) To deliver a sustained and measurable improvement in customer experience.

b) To make Rail a safer means of travel.

c) To expand Bhartiya Rail’s capacity substantially and modernize infrastructure.: increase dailypassenger carrying capacity from 21million to 30 million: increase track length by 20%from 1,14,000 kmto 1,38,000 km: grow our annual freight carrying capacity from 1 billion to 1.5 billion tonnes.

d) Finally, to make Bhartiya Rail financially self-sustainable. Generate large surpluses from operationsnot only to service the debt needed to fund our capacity expansion, but also to invest on an on-going basisto replace our depreciating assets.

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Highlights:No increase in rail fare

Advance ticket booking period increased from 60 days to 120 days

24X7 helpline for attending passenger problems and security-related complaints

Surveillance cameras in coaches for the safety of women passengers.

Wi-Fi in 400 stations and facility of Bio-toilets

Self-operated lockers on railway stations

E-catering to sell meals through IRCTC online

More General class coaches to be added in identified trains

SMS alert service on arrival and departure of trains

New department for keeping stations and trains clean under Swachh Rail Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Speed of trains to go up by 20 per cent in next two years

Hot buttons and coin vending machines for railway tickets

Provision of INR 120 Crore for lifts and escalator

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Technology Proposed and its applications

Ticketing:

Operation five minutes for issuing unreserved tickets

Hot buttons

Coin vending machines

Single destination teller

Concessional e-tickets for differently abled travelers Developing a multi-lingual e-portal

Crediting of refunds through banks

Unreserved tickets on Smart phones

Proliferation of automatic ticket vending machines with smart cards and currency options

Integrated ticketing system on the lines of rail-cum-road tickets

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Contd.

Help-line:

24X7 helpline number 138;toll-free number 182 for security related complaints.

Leveraging Technology:

Hand-held terminals to Travelling Ticket Examiners (TTEs) for verification of passengersand downloading charts possibility of extending facility of SMS on mobiles as a valid proofof travel for PRS tickets

Integrated customer portal as a single interface to access different services

Introduction of a centrally managed Railway Display Network in over 2000 stations in nexttwo years

“SMS Alert” service to inform passengers in advance of the updated arrival/departure timeof trains at starting or destination stations.

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Contd.

Safety:

RDSO to develop a suitable device with reliable power supply system based on theft-proof panels/batteriesin consultation with Indian Space Research Organization,

Use of geo-spatial technology for providing audio-visual warning to road users at unmanned levelcrossings

Radio based signal design project been taken up with IIT Kanpur for warnings at unmanned level crossing

Train Protection Warning System and Train Collision Avoidance System to be installed on select routes atthe earliest

Transparency and Governance initiatives:

System of on-line applications introduced for two categories of recruitment as a pilot project- tobe extended.

E-procurement value chain being expanded

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Contd. Food And Catering:

E-catering to select meals from an array of choices

Ordering food through IRCTC website at the time of booking of tickets

Integrating best food chains into this project

Setting up of Base Kitchens in specified Divisions to be run by reputed agencies for servingquality food

Expansion of water vending machines

Station Facilities:

Provision of concierge services through IRCTC at major stations

Online booking of wheel chair on payment basis for senior citizens, patients and thedifferently-abled passengers through IRCTC on selected stations

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Contd. Technology Innovation:

Constituting an innovation council called “Kayakalp” for business re-engineering and introducing a spirit ofinnovation in Railways

IT vision to be unveiled: information on latest berth availability station navigation system, bar coded/RFID trackingof parcels and freight wagons, automated parcel warehouses.

Integration of train control and asset management applications

Mechanize integrated track maintenance

“Foreign Rail Technology Cooperation scheme” to be launched

Improvements to Management Processes and Systems:

Improve appraisal mechanism for the selection of projects and introduce simulation tools for project planning anddecision-making by introducing EPC system of contracting.

Paperless working in material management system to be expanded

Vendors to be integrated through Vendor Interface Management System to provide single window interface tovendors . 10


Budgetary Allocation : INR 8,56,020

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Network Decongestion

Network Expansion

National Projects

Safety

Information Technology

Rolling Stock

Passenger Amenities

High Speed Rail

Station redevelopment

Others

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50000100000

150000200000

INR (Crore)

INR (crore)

BenefitsOpen Wi-Fi at 400 train stations

Multi-lingual E-ticketing provisions

Hand-held terminals to Travelling Ticket Examiners (TTEs) for verification of passengers and downloading charts

SMS Alert service to inform passengers in advance of the updated arrival/departure time of trains at starting or destinationstations.

Extending facility of SMS on mobiles as a valid proof of travel for PRS tickets.

E-catering to select meals from an array of choices. Pre-Ordering food through IRCTC website at the time of booking of tickets.

Automatic ticket vending machines with smart cards and currency options

Unreserved tickets to be available on Smart phones through App

Online booking of wheel chairs

Integrated customer portal as a single interface to access different services

Introduction of a centrally managed Railway Display Network in over 2000 stations in next two years

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Impact

Freight rates hiked by 10 per cent for urea, 2.7 per cent for cement and 6.3 per cent for coal.

77 new projects to be launched with an investment of INR 96,182 Crore to expand capacity.

Plan Outlay proposed at INR 1,00,011 Crore, up by 52 per cent.

Railways will also leverage additional resources and envisages investment of INR 8.5 lakh Crore innext five years.

INR 6,581 Crore earmarked on level crossing safety, train protection warning system to preventfires, collision avoiding system which is expected to increase rail travel reliability amongpassengers.

Passenger Benefits: 17,000 toilets to be replaced and modernized, vacuum-based toilets on cards,new toilets in 650 railway stations as well as railways will set up waste management plants.

100 diesel-run trains to be enabled for dual fuel - CNG and diesel and locomotives running on LNGare also currently under development.

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Thank You!Team:

Mohit Sethi

Karan Kundra

Kritika Gupta

Komalpreet

Sanchi Kataria

Namrata Chhabra

Happy Kahali

Jatin Kinra

Nikita Arora14

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