Indian Railways Annual Report & Accounts 2018-19
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INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2018-19 (With highlights of the performance for 2019-20) Price : ` 225 Bharat Sarkar Published by Directorate of Statistics and Economics Government of India Ministry of Railways (Railway Board), Government of India, New Delhi Rail Mantralaya Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2018-19 (With highlights of the performance for 2019-20) BHARAT SARKAR GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RAIL MANTRALAYA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) Contents Organization Structure 2 Welfare, Development and 94 Empowerment of Women Apex Management 3 Review–Prospects 5 Facilities to Persons with 95 Disabilities Finance 8 Security 98 Freight Operation 14 Vigilance 102 Passenger Business 18 Promoting Hindi 104 Planning 35 North Eastern Region 106 Engineering 37 Public Relations 112 Railway Electrification 42 Railway Engineers Regiments 114 (Territorial Army) Signal and Telecom 51 Undertakings and other 117 Organizations Safety 56 Advisory Boards 143 Rolling Stock 62 Important Events 144 Material Management 70 Glossary 148 Research and Development 72 Summary of Audit Observations 150 provided by C & AG and ATNs Managing the Environment 77 Financial Statements and 153 Operating Statistics Personnel 85 ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE OF INDIAN RAILWAYS MINISTER OF RAILWAYS MINISTER OF STATE OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY BOARD CHAIRMAN RAILWAY BOARD MEMBER MEMBER FINANCIAL STAFF TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER TRACTION S&T ROLLING ENGINEERING MATERIALS STOCK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR GENERAL/RHS DIRECTOR GENERAL/ RPF SECRETARY, RAILWAY BOARD CPSE/CORP & ZONAL RAILWAYS PRODUCTION UNITS OTHER UNITS AUTONOMOUS BODIES/ (OPEN LINE) AUTHORITIES GENERAL MANAGERS GENERAL MANAGERS GENERAL MANAGERS BCL 1. CENTRAL BSCL CHITTARANJAN CENTRAL ORGANIZATION FOR 2. EASTERN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION BWEL 3. EAST CENTRAL NF RAILWAY (CONST.) DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE CONCOR 4. EAST COAST WORKS DFCCIL 5. NORTHERN CAO (R)* INTEGRAL COACH FACTORY 6. NORTH CENTRAL IRCON CENTRAL ORGANIZATION RAIL COACH FACTORY 7. NORTH EASTERN FOR MODERNISATION OF IRCTC KAPURTHALA 8. NORTHEAST FRONTIER WORKSHOPS (COFMOW) IRFC RAIL WHEEL FACTORY 9. NORTH WESTERN INDIAN RAILWAY YELAHANKA KMRCL 10. SOUTHERN ORGANIZATION FOR KRCL 11. SOUTH CENTRAL MODERN COACH FACTORY, ALTERNATE FUELS (IROAF) RAE BARELI MRVC 12. SOUTH EASTERN DIRECTOR GENERAL 13. SOUTH EAST CENTRAL RCIL CAO (R)* 14. SOUTH WESTERN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RITES INDIAN RAILWAYS, VADODARA 15. WESTERN DIESEL LOCO RVNL 16. WEST CENTRAL MODERNIZATION WORKS DG & EX-OFFICIO GM RDSO, CRIS 17. METRO** RAIL WHEEL PLANT, BELA LUCKNOW 18. SOUTH COAST# RLDA Note: Cabinet has approved re-organisation of the Board on functional lines with CRB & CEO plus 4 Members. The organogram will be modified as soon as the Cabinet decision is put into effect after following the laid down procedure. **METRO RLY, KOLKATA. *CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (RAILWAYS) #New Zone approved by the Cabinet. Other preparatory work for notification is under process. 2 INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2018-19 Apex Management Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal Minister of State of Railways Suresh C. Angadi Members, Railway Board Chairman V K Yadav Financial Commissioner Manjula Rangarajan* Member Engineering Vishwesh Chaube Member Rolling Stock Rajesh Agrawal Member Traction Rajesh Tiwari Member Staff Rajesh Tiwari* Member Materials Management P C Sharma Member Signal and Telecom Pradeep Kumar Member Traffic P S Mishra Secretary Sushant Kumar Mishra Directors-General Railway Protection Force Arun Kumar Railway Health Services H Pradeep Kumar General Managers, Zonal Railways Central Sanjeev Mittal Eastern Suneet Sharma East Central L C Trivedi East Coast Vidya Bhushan **Metro Suneet Sharma* Northern T P Singh North Central Rajiv Chaudhary North Eastern Rajiv Agarwal Northeast Frontier Sanjiv Roy North Western Anand Prakash Southern John Thomas South Central Gajanan Mallya South Eastern Sanjay Kumar Mohanty South East Central Goutam Banerjee South Western A K Singh Western Sanjeev Mittal* West Central Goutam Banerjee* General Managers, Production Units Chittaranjan Locomotive Works P K Mishra Diesel Locomotive Works Rajiv Agarwal* Integral Coach Factory Rahul Jain Rail Wheel Factory Rajiv Kumar Vyas Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala Ravinder Gupta Modern Coach Factory, Rae Bareli V M Srivastava General Managers, Construction Units Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction) N K Prasad Central Organization for Railway Electrification Y P Singh Director-General National Academy of Indian Railways Gajanan Mallya* Director-General and Ex-Officio General Manager Research, Designs and Standards Organization Virendra Kumar Chief Administrative Officers (Railways) Central Organization for Modernization of Workshops A K Agarwal Diesel Loco Modernization Works Vivek Kumar Rail Wheel Plant, Bela Shubhranshu *Looking after. ** Metro Railway, Kolkata. (As on 10rd January, 2020) INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2018-19 3 4 INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2018-19 Review-Prospects Results : 2018-19 Financial Performance The year 2018-19 ended with an excess of earning over expenditure to the tune of `3,773.86 crore which was appropriated to Development Fund (`750.00 crore) and Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK) (`3,023.86 Monumental National flag at Chennai Central crore) Freight Operation 2017-18 2018-19 Absolute % age Variation Variation Revenue Originating 1,159.55 1,221.48 61.93 5.34 Tonnes (million) Revenue Net Tonne 692.92 738.52 45.60 6.58 Kms. (billion) Goods Earnings @ 1,13,523.53 1,22,580.31 9,056.78 7.98 (` in crore) @Excludes ‘other goods earnings’ such as wharfage, demurrage, etc. Passenger Business 2017-18 2018-19 Absolute % age Variation Variation Number of Passengers 8,286 8,439 153 1.85 carried(million) Passenger Kilometers 1,178 1,157 -21 -1.78 (billion) Passenger Earnings 48,643.14 51,066.65 2,423.51 4.98 (`in crore) Vande Bharat Express (Train 18) Engineering Works During the year 2018-19 the following Engineering Works were accomplished : 2018-19 (in km.) Construction of New Lines 479.54 Conversion to Broad Gauge 597.2 Track Renewal 4,181 Electrification 5,276 kms. of IR’s route was electrified during 2018-19. Safety, Signal and Telecom Details of consequential train accidents and train accidents per million train kilometres (an important index of Safety) during 2018-19 as compared to 2017-18 are given below : 2017-18 2018-19 Consequential Train Accidents 72* 59 Train Accidents Per Million Train Kilometres 0.06 0.05 Eco friendly garden at Ooty, SR *excluding Konkan Railway INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2018-19 5 Following steps were taken for improving passenger amenities : Provision 2018-19 (No. of Stations) Public Address System 5,206 Train Display Board 1,113 Coach Guidance System 583 Kathakali, the famous artform of Kerala painted on station wall at Palakkad Jn Operating Efficiency Some important efficiency indices for 2018-19 compared to 2017-18 were as follows: Efficiency Index Broad Gauge Metre Gauge 2017-18 2018-19 2017-18 2018-19 Net tonne kms. per wagon per day 7,405 7,747 - - Speed (kmph) of all goods trains (all 23.3 23.2 - - traction) Percentage of loaded to total wagon km 64.4 64.9 - - Net load per goods train (tonnes) 1,762 1,738 - - Net tonne km per engine hour 17,205 16,571 - - Passenger vehicle km per vehicle per day 555 533 125 115 Materials Management Materials Management on IR is being progressively revamped with a view to reduce costs, storage, handling, insurance and dividend charges. Turn Night view of PL 690 vintage steam loco Over Ratio in terms of value of inventories to value of materials consumed at SR was 9% (without fuel) and 6% (with fuel) during 2018-19 as compared to 10% (without fuel) and 8% (with fuel) during last year. The disposal of condemned Rolling Stock and scrap arising was monitored closely. Managing the Environment Efforts are steadily being made to make Railway operations environment friendly and to bring down the adverse effects through adaptation of cleaner technologies, energy conservation measures, afforestation on vacant railway land, etc. Railway is utilizing wasteland and rooftops for setting up solar power plants. Concerted efforts are also being continued to eliminate use of wooden sleepers. Human Resource Development A number of initiatives were taken to improve the quality of training programmes for railway employees in order to improve productivity. In this direction, ‘National Rail & Transportation Institute’ (NRTI) has been set up as India’s first University focused on transport related education, multi disciplinary research & training in Vadodara, Gujarat. Industrial Relations and Personnel As on 31st March, 2019, IR had 12,26,865 regular employees as Niligiri Mountain Railway Meusum, SR against 12,70,399 as on 31st March, 2018 – a decrease by 43,534. 6 INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2018-19 Industrial Relations remained cordial during 2018-19. Productivity Linked Bonus equivalent to 78 days’ wages was paid to all non-gazetted employees (excluding RPF/RPSF personnel) for 2018-19. RPF/RPSF personnel belonging to Group C and D categories were sanctioned an ad hoc bonus equivalent to 30 days’ wages. Staff Welfare IR’s welfare schemes cover a wide spectrum of activities, viz., educational facilities and financial assistance to the children of Railway employees, handicraft centres for augmenting family income, financial New version WAP-7 loco of 160 kmph assistance in sickness, subsidized