INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2017-18 (With highlights of the performance for 2018-19) ICF T18 Price : ` 190 lR;eso t;rs Bharat Sarkar Government of India Published by Directorate of Statistics and Economics Rail Mantralaya Ministry of Railways Ministry of Railways (Railway Board), Government of India, New Delhi (Railway Board) INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2017-18 (With highlights of the performance for 2018-19) BHARAT SARKAR GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RAIL MANTRALAYA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) Contents Organization Structure 2 Welfare, Development and 81 Empowerment of Women Apex Management 3 Review–Prospects 5 Facilities to Persons with 82 Disabilities Finance 8 Security 85 Freight Operation 14 Vigilance 88 Passenger Business 18 Promoting Hindi 90 Planning 31 North Eastern Region 92 Engineering 33 Public Relations 99 Railway Electrification 38 Railway Engineers Regiments 101 (Territorial Army) Signal and Telecom 43 Undertakings and other 104 Organizations Safety 48 Advisory Boards 131 Rolling Stock 54 Important Events 132 Material Management 60 Glossary 137 Research and Development 62 Summary of Audit Observations 139 provided by C & AG and ATNs Managing the Environment 66 Financial Statements and 153 Operating Statistics Personnel 73 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 DIRECTOR GENERAL/PERS. SECRETARY, RAILWAY BOARD ZONAL RAILWAYS PRODUCTION UNITS OTHER UNITS CPSE/CORP & AUTONOMOUS BODIES/ (OPEN LINE) AUTHORITIES GENERAL MANAGERS GENERAL MANAGERS GENERAL MANAGERS BCL 1. CENTRAL CENTRAL ORGANIZATION FOR BSCL 2. EASTERN CHITTARANJAN LOCOMOTIVE RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATON BWEL WORKS 3. EAST CENTRAL NF RAILWAY (CONSTRUCTION) CONCOR 4. EAST COAST DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE WORKS CAO (R)* DFCCIL 5. NORTHERN INTEGRAL COACH FACTORY IRCON 6. NORTH CENTRAL RAIL COACH FACTORY, CENTRAL ORGANIZATION 7. NORTH EASTERN KAPURTHALA FOR MODERNISATION OF IRCTC 8. NORTHEAST FRONTIER WORKSHOPS (COFMOW) RAIL WHEEL FACTORY, IRFC 9. NORTH WESTERN YELAHANKA INDIAN RAILWAY KMRCL 10. SOUTHERN ORGANIZATION FOR MODERN COACH FACTORY, ALTERNATE FUELS (IROAF) KRCL 11. SOUTH CENTRAL RAE BARELI MRVC 12. SOUTH EASTERN DIRECTOR GENERAL 13. SOUTH EAST CENTRAL RCIL CAO (R)* 14. SOUTH WESTERN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INDIAN RITES 15. WESTERN DIESEL LOCO RAILWAYS, VADODARA RVNL 16. WEST CENTRAL MODERNIZATION WORKS/PATIALA 17. METRO ** DG & EX-OFFICIO GM CRIS RDSO, LUCKNOW 18. SOUTH COAST# RAIL WHEEL PLANT, BELA RLDA **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 2017-18 Apex Management Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal Minister of State of Railways Suresh C. Angadi Members, Railway Board Chairman Vinod kr. Yadav Financial Commissioner Vijay Kumar* Member Staff S.N. Agrawal Member Rolling Stock Rajesh Agrawal Member Traffic Girish Pillai Member Traction S.N. Agrawal* Member Engineering Vishwesh Chaube Member Materials Management V.P. Pathak Member Signal & Telecom N. Kasinath Secretary S.K. Mishra Directors-General Railway Health Services H. Pradeep Kumar Railway Protection Force Arun Kumar Personnel Manoj Pande General Managers, Zonal Railways Central Anil Kumar Gupta* Eastern P.S. Mishra* East Central L.C. Trivedi East Coast Vidya Bhushan **Metro P.C. Sharma Northern T.P. Singh North Central Rajiv Chaudhary North Eastern Rajiv Agarwal Northeast Frontier Sanjiv Roy North Western Rajesh Tiwari Southern Rahul Jain* South Central Gajanan Mallya South Eastern P.S. Mishra South East Central Ajay Vijayvargiya* South Western A.K. Singh Western Anil Kumar Gupta West Central Ajay Vijayvargiya General Managers, Production Units Chittaranjan Locomotive Works P.K. Mishra Diesel Locomotive Works Rashmi Goel Integral Coach Factory Rahul Jain Rail Wheel Factory A.K. Singh* Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala T.P. Singh* Modern Coach Factory, Rae Bareli Suneet Sharma General Managers, Construction Units Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction) N.K. Prasad Central Organization for Railway Electrification Ratan Lal Director-General National Academy of Indian Railways Pradeep Kumar 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 Manju Gupta* Rail Wheel Plant, Bela R.P. Singh* *Looking after. ** Metro Railway, Kolkata. (As on 3rd June, 2019) INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2017-18 3 4 INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2017-18 Review-Prospects Results : 2017-18 Financial Performance The year 2017-18 ended with an excess of earning over expenditure to the tune of `1,665.61 crore which was appropriated to Development Fund (`1,505.61 crore) and Railway Safety Fund (`160.00 crore). SER Headquarter Building Constructed in 1907 Freight Operation 2016-17 2017-18 Absolute % age Variation Variation Revenue Originating 1,106.15 1,159.55 53.40 4.83 Tonnes (million) Revenue Net Tonne 620.18 692.92 72.74 11.73 Kms. (billion) Goods Earnings @ 1,02,027.82 1,13,523.53 11,495.71 11.27 (` in crore) @Excludes ‘other goods earnings’ such as wharfage, demurrage, etc. Passenger Business 2016-17 2017-18 Absolute % age Variation Variation Number of Passengers 8,116 8,286 170 2.10 carried(million) Passenger Kilometers 1,150 1,178 28 2.43 (billion) Passenger Earnings 46,280.46 48,643.14 2,362.68 5.11 (`in crore) Engineering Works During the year 2017-18 the following Engineering Works were accomplished: Beautification of 11 stations, WCR 2017-18 (in km.) Construction of New Lines 409 Conversion to Broad Gauge 454 Track Renewal 4,023 Electrification 4,087 kms. of IR’s route was electrified during 2017-18. Safety, Signal and Telecom Details of consequential train accidents and train accidents per million train kilometres (an important index of Safety) during 2017-18 as compared to 2016-17 are given below : 2016-17 2017-18 Consequential Train Accidents* 103 72 Train Accidents Per Million Train Kilometres* 0.09 0.06 Famous NG train at Batasia loop on Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, NFR *Excluding Konkan Railway INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2017-18 5 Following steps were taken for improving passenger amenities : Provision 2017-18 (No. of Stations) Public Address System 5,096 Train Display Board 1,090 Coach Guidance System 576 A View of Gatimaan Express, NCR Operating Efficiency Some important efficiency indices for 2017-18 compared to 2016-17 were as follows: Efficiency Index Broad Gauge Metre Gauge 2016-17 2017-18 2016-17 2017-18 Net tonne kms. per wagon per day 7,359 7,405 - - Speed (kmph) of all goods trains (all 23.7 23.3 - - traction) Percentage of loaded to total wagon km 63.3 64.4 - - Net load per goods train (tonnes) 1,600 1,762 - - Gandhi Nagar Station Redevelopment, WR Net tonne km per engine hour 16,337 17,474 - - Passenger vehicle km per vehicle per day 564 555 134 125 Materials Management 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 10% (without fuel) and 8% (with fuel) during 2017-18 as compared to 9% (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 Heritage Hall at Vizianagaram Station, ECoR 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 pronouncement made by Hon’ble MR in the Budget 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. 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, 2018, IR had 12,70,714 regular employees as st Physical location of locomotive on the map against 13,08,578 as on 31 March, 2017 – a decrease by 37,864. through REMMLOT developed by RDSO 6 INDIAN RAILWAYS ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2017-18 Industrial Relations remained cordial during 2017-18. Productivity Linked Bonus equivalent to 78 days’ wages was paid to all non-gazetted employees (excluding RPF/RPSF personnel) for 2017-18. RPF/RPSF personnel belonging to Group C and D categories were sanctioned an ad hoc bonus equivalent to 30 days’ wages. Staff Welfare SWR Zonal Office, Hubballi 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