INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2016-17 (With highlights of the performance for 2017-18) Price : ` 150 Bharat Sarkar Government of India Rail Mantralaya Published by Directorate of Statistics and Economics Ministry of Railways Ministry of Railways (Railway Board), Government of India, New Delhi (Railway Board) INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2016-17 (With highlights of the performance for 2017-18) BHARAT SARKAR GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RAIL MANTRALAYA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) Contents Organization Structure 2 Welfare, Development and 75 Empowerment of Women Apex Management 3 Review–Prospects 5 Facilities to Persons with 76 Disabilities Finance 8 Security 79 Freight Operation 13 Vigilance 82 Passenger Business 17 Promoting Hindi 84 Planning 27 North Eastern Region 87 Engineering 29 Public Relations 93 Railway Electrification 34 Railway Engineers Regiments 95 (Territorial Army) Signal and Telecom 37 Undertakings and other 97 Organizations Safety 42 Advisory Boards 125 Rolling Stock 50 Important Events 126 Material Management 56 Glossary 129 Research and Development 58 Summary of Audit Observations 131 provided by C & AG and ATNs Managing the Environment 63 Financial Statements and 141 Operating Statistics Personnel 68 ORGANIZation STRUCTURE MINISTER OF RAILWAYS MINISTER OF state OF railways (S) MINISTER OF state OF railways (G) railway BOARD CHAIRMAN railway BOARD MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER MEMBER FINANCIAL TRAFFIC Staff ENGINEERING TRACTION ROLLING StoCK COMMISSIONER SECretary DIRECtor GENERAL/RHS DIRECtor GENERAL/S&T DIRECtor GENERAL/RPF ESTT. ADMN. DIRECtor GENERAL/PERS DIRECtor GENERAL/RS Matters matters ZONAL Railways PRODUCTION UNITS OTHER UNITS CPSE/CORP (OPEN LINE) GENERAL MANAGERS GENERAL MANAGERS GENERAL MANAGERS BCL BSCL CENTRAL ChittaranJAN LOCOMOTIVE CENTRAL organization FOR WORKS BWEL EASTERN railway ELECTRIFICaton CONCOR EAST CENTRAL DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, NF Railway (CONSTRUCTION) VARANASI DFCCIL EAST COAST CAO (R) * IRCON METRO ** INTEGRAL COACH FACTORY, CHENNAI IRCTC NORTHERN CENTRAL ORGANIZATION IRFC NORTH CENTRAL RAIL COACH FACTORY, FOR MODERNISATION OF KAPURTHALA WORKSHOPS (COFMOW) KMRCL NORTH EASTERN KRCL NORTHEAST FRONTIER RAIL WHEEL FACTORY, INDIAN RAILWAY YELAHANKA ORGANIZATION FOR MRVC NORTH WESTERN ALTERNATE FUELS (IROAF) MODERN COACH FACTORY, SOUTHERN RCIL RAE BARELI DIRECtor GENERAL SOUTH CENTRAL RITES CAO (R) * RVNL SOUTH EASTERN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INDIAN SOUTH EAST CENTRAL DIESEL LOCO RAILWAYS, VADODARA Autonomous Bodies/ SOUTH WESTERN modernization Authorities WORKS/Patiala DG & EX-OFFICIO GM WESTERN CRIS WEST CENTRAL RAIL WHEEL PLANT, BELA RDSO, LUCKNOW RLDA ** METRO RLY, KOLKATA. * CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (RAILWAYS) 2 INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016-17 Apex Management Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal Minister of State of Railways(S) Manoj Sinha Minister of State of Railways(G) Rajen Gohain Members, Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani Financial Commissioner B.N. Mohapatra Member Staff D.K. Gayen Member Rolling Stock Ravindra Gupta Member Traffic Mohd. Jamshed Member Traction Ghanshyam Singh Member Engineering M.K. Gupta Secretary Ranjanesh Sahai Directors-General Railway Health Services Dr. Anil Kumar Railway Protection Force Dharmendra Kumar Personnel Anand Mathur Railway Stores A.K. Goel Signal & Telecom Akhil Agrawal General Managers, Zonal Railways Central D.K. Sharma Eastern Harindra Rao East Central Rajiv Agarwal*(L/A) East Coast Umesh Singh **Metro Ajay Vijayvergiya Northern Vishwesh Chaube North Central M.C. Chauhan North Eastern Rajiv Agarwal Northeast Frontier Chahatey Ram North Western T.P. Singh Southern R.K. Kulshreshta South Central V.K. Yadav South Eastern S.N. Agarwal South East Central S.S. Soin South Western A.K. Gupta Western Anil Kumar Gupta West Central Girish Pillai General Managers, Production Units Chittaranjan Locomotive Works V.P. Pathak Diesel Locomotive Works Rashmi Goel Integral Coach Factory Sudhanshu Mani Rail Wheel Factory O.P. Agarwal Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala Ratan Lal Modern Coach Factory, Rae Bareli M.C. Chauhan*(L/A) General Managers, Construction Units Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction) N.K. Prasad Central Organization for Railway Electrification S.P. Trivedi Director-General National Academy of Indian Railways Rajeev Gupta Director-General and Ex-Officio General Manager Research, Designs and Standards Organization Margoob Hussain Chief Administrative Officers (Railways) Central Organization for Modernization of Workshops Manoj Joshi Diesel Loco Modernization Works Ramesh Kumar Rail Wheel Plant, Bela R.C. Meena *Looking after ** Metro Railway, Kolkata (As on 1st January, 2018) INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016-17 3 4 INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016-17 Review-Prospects Results : 2016-17 Financial Performance The year ended with an excess of earning over expenditure to the tune of `4,913.00 crore which was appropriated to Development Fund (`2,515.00 crore) and Capital Fund (`2,398.00 crore). A view of Gorakhpur Junction Railway Freight Operation Station, NER 2015-16 2016-17 Absolute % age Variation Variation Revenue Originating 1,101.51 1,106.15 4.64 0.42 Tonnes (million)* Revenue Net Tonne 6,54.481 620.175 (-)34.306 (-)5.24 Kms. (billion) Goods Earnings 1,06,940.55 1,02,027.82 (-)4,912.73 (-)4.59 @(` in crore) *excluding konkan Railway @Excludes ‘other goods earnings’ such as wharfage, demurrage, etc. Passenger Business Jaipur Railway Station, NWR 2015-16 2016-17 Absolute % age Variation Variation Number of Passengers 8,107 8,116 9 0.11 carried (million) Passenger Kilometers 1,143 1,150 7 0.61 (billion) Passenger Earnings 44,283.26 46,280.46 1,997.2 4.51 (`in crore) Engineering Works During the year, the following Engineering Works were accomplished : 2016-17 (in km.) Construction of New Lines 953 Velankanni Railway Station, SR Conversion to Broad Gauge 1,020 Track Renewal 2,487 Electrification 2,013 kms. of IR’s route was electrified during 2016-17. Safety, Signal and Telecom Details of consequential train accidents and train accidents per million train kilometres (an important index of Safety) during 2016-17 as compared to 2015-16 are given below : 2015-16 2016-17 Consequential Train Accidents* 106 103 Train Accidents Per Million Train Kilometres* 0.10 0.09 Illuminated Madgaon Railway Station on *excluding Konkan Railway Konkan Railway route INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016-17 5 Following steps were taken for improving passenger amenities : Provision 2016-17 (No. of Stations) Public Address System 4,893 Train Display Board 1,090 Artistic impression of Habibganj Station, WCR Coach Guidance System 556 Operating Efficiency Some important efficiency indices for 2016-17 compared to 2015-16 were as follows: Efficiency Index Broad Gauge Metre Gauge 2015-16 2016-17 2015-16 2016-17 Net tonne kms. per wagon *7,510 7,359 365 - per day Speed (kmph) of all goods 23.4 23.7 19.9 - trains (all traction) Percentage of loaded to 64.0 63.3 50.2 - total wagon km Net load per goods train *1,664 1,600 498 - (tonnes) Net tonne km per engine 17,506* 16,337 2,177 - hour Passenger vehicle km per *569 564 154 134 vehicle per day *revised Materials Management AC Metro train on elevated track Materials Management on IR is being progressively revamped with a view to reduce costs, storage, handling, insurance and dividend charges. Turn Over Ratio in terms of value of inventories to value of materials consumed was 9% (without fuel) and 8% (with fuel) during 2016-17 as compared to 13% (without fuel) and 11% (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. As per Budget pronouncement made by Hon’ble MR in 2016-17, it has been planned to utilize Railway 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. Train passing through green surroundings near Udupi Station (Karnataka) 6 INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2016-17 Industrial Relations and Personnel As on 31st March, 2017, IR had 13,08,323 regular employees as against 13,30,283 as on 31st March, 2016 – a decrease by 21,960. Industrial Relations remained cordial during 2016-17. Productivity Linked Bonus equivalent to 78 days’ wages was paid to all non-gazetted employees (excluding RPF/RPSF personnel) for 2016-17. RPF/RPSF personnel belonging to Group C and D categories were sanctioned an ad hoc bonus equivalent to 30 days’ wages. The PLB and ad-hoc bonus were Revival of 150 years old heritage step well, SCR both paid at an enhanced calculation ceiling of `7,000/- p.m. 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 assistance in sickness, subsidized housing and canteen facilities at work places and medical cover for employees and their families during service and after retirement. Performance : 2017-18 Passenger Business During April-December 2017-18, the number of originating passengers