Ministry ask Departments to prepare 5 Years ‘Vision Document’

Ministry ask Departments to prepare 5 Years ‘Vision Document’

New Delhi: Given the task of reforming India Railways, Rail Minister Suresh Prabhu has directed all directorates in the ministry to send a five year vision document of what they plan do every year and also listing targets starting 2015.

The directorates engineering, traffic, mechanical, signals, finance and staff have been asked to send a detailed presentation of their five year target and how do they plan to achieve it. The minister will review the targets listed by the directorates and the concerned officials will be held accountable for not meeting the targets.

The need for having sectors wise targets for railways was felt as sometimes focus remain on specific sectors and that hampers overall development. These targets will be regularly monitored and updates will sought by the ministers’ office.

According to a senior railway ministry official, the minister is very specific about railways goal based approach to reform the state run transport.

“He (Prabhu) felt that all departments need to have their individual targets to meet and most of the directorates are in the process of preparing them while traffic and engineering have already sent it. We will assess them once we receive all and minister will give clearance to them,” said the official.

Prabhu has also launched an online monitoring portal ‘e-samiksha’ to monitor the progress of projects and budget announcements. It mainly focuses on budget review, board meetings, zonal railway review, infrastructure targets and project implementation review.

There are several other modules in the e-samiksha software, which can be used for coordination by respective Directorates, Zonal and Divisional level officials in Indian Railways. It is a real time, on-line system for monitoring of follow-up action on the decisions taken during the presentations made by different ministries to the Prime Minister.

The follow-up action in respect of each decision is to be updated by the concerned ministries as and when the status changes or at least every month. Prabhu had directed that software needs to be developed to enable online monitoring of Budget Implementation and Project monitoring.