Performance Report - 2009 Department of Sri Lanka Railway Vision To provide a quality Rail Transport service with an environment of multi mode transport for passenger and freight traffic within an independent financial arrangement. Mission Provision of a safe, reliable and punctual Rail Transport service for both passenger and freight traffic economically and efficiently. Objectives • Making improvement in the service and Time table to provide an efficient service to meet the passenger needs. • Rehabilitation and improvements to sustain efficiency of declining assets. (eg. Rail line, Signalling system, Train fleet). • Strengthening the assets base on investments for new assets.(Diesel Multiple Units, Engines, Passenger Carriages). • Strengthening revenue sources. • Restructuring the establishment framework of the organization to meet the present day demands.(challenges). • Human resource development. Performance of the Administration Division Personnel Management Action was taken to fill 850 vacancies which fell vacant a long time ago during the year 2009 Schemes of promotions have been updated and 951 have been given promotions after conducting interviews and examinations during the year 2009 60 employees have retired from the service during 2009 Employee Relations Discussions are held with trade unions regularly and thereby to reduce stoppage of work without prior notice, strikes and sabotage. Public Relations Certificates and award presenting ceremony was held to evaluate the service of railway employees who completed 25 years of service. Human Resource Management Local training courses conducted by the German Railway Technical Training Center during the year 2009 are given below, Mechanical Course Motor Mechanical Course Welding Course Electrical Course Elementary Technological Course Technological Course Strains and Stress checking Course Elementary Electrical Technological Course The intake of students at the Sri Lanka German Railway Technical Training Center for the year 2009 is given in the following table, Course No Motor Mechanic 22 Diesel Engine Mechanic 20 Electrician 25 Welder 19 Mechanic 18 1 Particulars of the students who completed full time courses during the year 2009 are given in the following table, Course No Diesel Engine Mechanic 16 Electrician 15 Welder 21 Mechanic 14 The number who completed full time course in 2009 is 66, and the new admissions to the full time courses for the year are 104. Foreign Training It is expected to train 600 railway employees in India under Indian Loan aid and 147 of them were trained by end of the year 2009. Internal Audit Internal audit queries were held in the following divisions during this year. Serial No Place No 1 Railway Stations 150 2 Sub Railway Stations 144 3 District Telecommunication Inspector’s Offices 22 4 Running Sheds 10 5 Permanent Road Inspectors Offices 9 6 Building Supervisors Offices 5 7 Factories 2 8 Account Branches 10 9 Administration Branches 5 10 Railway Stores 1 These audit queries disclosed 179 financial irregularities between Rs.10-100, 78 between Rs.101-500,9 between Rs.501-1000 and 16 financial irregularities over Rs.5000/= and the disclosed irregularities, errors and oversights were reported to Heads of Sub Divisions for future action. In addition to the audit queries mentioned in the above table, stock verifications were held at the Maradana, Rathmalana and Ragama stores. 2 Auditor General’s Audit Queries Serial No Audit Queries No 1 Audit queries to be replied as at 1/1/2009 28 2 Audit queries received in 2009 48 3 Audit queries replied In 2009 75 4 Audit queries remaining to be replied as at 31/12/2009 01 Performance – Operations Division Following activities have been initiated for upgrading train services in 2009. An Intercity express train service named “Udaya Devi” commenced on 05/04/2009 from Colombo Fort to Batticaloa and from Batticaloa to Colombo Fort on 06/04/2009. The trains operated to Vavuniya were extended to Thandikulam and return journey also to commence from Thandikulam from 06/06/2009. New rail bus service was commenced between Baticaloa/Polonnaruwa/Baticaloa and Trincomalee/Galoya/Trincomalee in this year. New DMU (S10) was added to Mahawa office train operating between Colombo Fort / Maradana/Colombo Fort to provide passenger comfort by reducing the operating time. Introduction of the two YalDevi express trains operated between Colombo Fort/Vavuniya/ Colombo Fort as intercity express trains from 06/05/2009 and adding 5 carriages to trains operating between Colombo Fort/Trinco/Colombo Fort(7081/7082) for the passengers entrained to the former trains at the railway stations where they stopped earlier. These trains would go up to Mahawa and from then it would operate as a separate train up to Medawachchiya and again it would come upto Mahawa from Medawachchiya and then this train would be attached to the train coming from Trincomalee to Colombo Fort (7082) for the comfort of the passengers. Introduction of Diesel Multiple Units (S10) for the Samudra Devi train from 09/03/2009. Operating the train (8751) with a new Chinese Diesel Multiple unit and extending the train (8741) up to Kalutara south. Converting the train 8390 to a faster one to reduce losses caused by theft from 05/11/2009. Replacing the train No 9268 operated up to Kosgama with train No 9269 from 12/06/2009. Operation of train No 1140 Colombo Fort to Veyangoda and train No 1539 from Veyangoda to Colombo Fort from 17/09/2009. Operation of train No 1152 from Colombo Fort to Polgahawela and train No 1576 from Polgahawela to Colombo Fort, from 24/08/2009. Due to change of time table of the Northern line trains on 06/05/2009, to make a relative change in the operations of main line trains. Train time tables were revised to match the demands of the passengers with the objective of up grading passenger capacity without adding new trains to the service. 3 The train operating beyond Vauniya A new rail bus is about to begin its operation (Thandikulam) after 20 years from 06/06/2009. introduced under the newly commenced Rail Bus Project in the Eastern Province. Newly introduced Udaya Devi’ express train between Colombo Fort and Batticaloa. Derailments Description 2008 2009 On rail track 60 63 Yard 104 108 Total 164 171 The number of train derailments occurred in 2008 increased from 164 to 171 in 2009. The derailment of Colombo – Anuradapura oil transporting train near Thalawa Railway Station on 06/06/2009. 4 Train Accidents The following table gives an account of accidents occurred at the railway crossings in 2008 and 2009. Description 2008 2009 Train Collisions 09 05 Other accidents 24 15 Motor Vehicle collisions at railway crossings 43 66 Damages caused to crossings by motor 207 181 vehicles Fire damage 1 1 Terrorist attack 6 Cattle deaths due to collision with trains 1 25 Elephant deaths due to collision with trains 6 9 The number of other accidents including accidents at railway crossings in 2008 was 305 while it was 302 in 2009. The train collisions occurred during this year is 05 and other accidents are 15. This is relatively less than previous year. Motor vehicle collisions at crossings have gone up this year when compared to the previous year. Motor vehicle accidents caused to crossings have decreased from 207 to 181 with the cessation of 30 year cruel war and no incidents of terrorist attacks were reported. Cattle deaths according to the above table have taken a higher proportion from 01 in 2008 to 25 in 2009. The number of elephant deaths this year due to train collision is 09. Damage caused to the public due to train accidents 2008 2009 Description Injuries Deaths Injuries Deaths Injury and death caused to railway 6 10 passengers due to derailment Injury and death caused to railway 12 01 02 passengers due to train collisions Injury and death caused to railway 03 21 01 passengers due to falling off the train Injury caused due to stoning the train 04 09 Injury and death caused to the general public due to vehicle railway collision at 33 16 83 20 railway crossings Suicides committed due to collision with 140 80 93 98 trains Due to derailment of trains in 2009, 10 passengers have been injured and no deaths have been reported. 02 passengers got injured due to collision with trains. Though there were no deaths due to falling off the train in 2008,.there reported one death in 2009. Deaths caused due to vehicle railway collision at railway crossings increased from 16 5 in 2008 to 20 in 2009. Majority of these accidents occurred at protected level crossings are due to reckless driving of vehicle drivers. Suicides caused due to collision with trains increased from 80 in 2008 to 98 in 2009. Time Based Operation Late Operations No. of Approved No.of trains Description No of trains operated trains operated on time 6 to 10 minutes to 30 11 minutes 31 to 60 minutes Over 60 minutes Train Cancellation i.Passenger 17,927 109,717 38,483 16,812 34,575 12,596 8,210 8,210 suburban 65,613 63,799 26,730 11,413 20,090 4,499 1,067 1,814 Long distance 17,013 16,924 2,633 2,090 5883 3,646 2,672 89 and Intercity Division 35,301 28,994 9,120 3,309 8602 4,451 3,512 6,307 ii.Goods 7,953 4,978 693 100 341 602 3,242 2,975 Total 125,880 114,695 39,176 16,912 34,916 13,198 10,493 11,185 The number of trains planned to operate in this year was 117,927 and the number operated was 109,717. As a percentage it is 93%. In connection with goods trains expected to be operated it was 63%.