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New Delhi: Member (Staff),
Railway Board Shri Pradeep Kumar, briefed about the following initiatives and
action plans of the Establishment, Health, Security and Sports Directorates of
the Ministry of Railways during a press conference held on 16thJune
2015.
Establishment/Management
Services Directorate
1.
Major Initiatives taken
- MOU signed with University of Mumbai on
18.04.2015 for setting up Centre for Railway Research. Three more such
Centres for Railway Research being established.
- Academic Services Agreement signed with
Beijing Jiaotong University, China for training of 100 officers of various
departments in Heavy Haul Technology.
- ‘Indian Railways Chair for Sustainable
Mobility’ set up at TERI University, New Delhi.
- Scheme for Summer Internships for
Undergraduates of Engineering and Management Studies introduced on Indian
Railways.
- Scheme for Fellowships in Universities for
Railway-related Research in fellowships would be open to Central
Universities, State Universities and Centres for excellence i.e. IITs,
IIMs, IIS etc introduced.
- Scheme for encouraging Railway employees
to acquire higher qualifications at Masters level in IITs, IIMs and
Institutes of repute introduced.
- As a major IT initiative, online
applications introduced in two recent exams for the posts of Sr. Section
Engineers & Junior Engineers (SSEs/JEs) and Para-Medical Categories
respectively to bring transparency and certainty into recruitment process
for better efficiency and substantial savings in cost and resources.
Written examinations for these posts conducted within 2 to 2.5 months from
the closing date of examinations.
- As step towards transparency new system of
handing over Question Booklets to the RRB Candidates introduced. Further,
Pilot project of uploading of Answer Keys and Cut-off marks initiated in
2014-15.
- In the recruitment drive during 2014-15,
examinations conducted for 48,822 vacancies in 284 categories.
Panels of 15,191 candidates supplied to the indenting Railway(s)/
Production Units(s). Further, during the current year, it is
expected that panels of around 60,000 in Grade Pay Rs 1800 will be
declared.
- Modules on sensitization of Railway
personnel on gender introduced in Centralised Training Institutes.
- Circular to take special care of
physically challenged Railway Employees for their training issued.
- Revised Training Modules of following
categories issued – Promotee Supervisors of Mechanical Department,
Supervisors of Design cadre of Electrical, Civil & S&T Department,
Clerk Categories of Personnel Department.
- Special Training Module on Soft Skills
issued.
- Two web based IT applications developed by
Personnel Officers in house to bring transparency and efficiency –
“Comptran” developed for facilitating request transfers over entire Indian
Railways. “EGRS”developed for online registration of employees grievances
and monitoring their redressal. Both the applications rolled out all over
Indian Railways.
- Pension grievance handling mechanism
institutionalised and stabilised bringing down pendency from the range of
5000 to normal level of 500.
- To make the system of repair and
maintenance of staff quarters more responsive, web based complaint
management system introduced as pilot project on 3 Railways, RDSO and RCF
Kapurthala.
1.
Action Plan
- MoUs have been planned for setting up of
centres for Railway Research at IIT Chennai, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Roorkee.
- M.Tech. Programme in Railway Engineering
for benefit of Railway Officers and staff is being introduced in
consultation with IIT, Kharagpur from academic session 2015-16.
- Services of professional agencies would be
used for evaluation of Railway training programmes as also bench marking
the Training Centres.
- For Supervisors, training will be
organised at Foreman Training Institute, Bengaluru.
- HR audit would begin this year by
associating professional HR Consultant for undertaking detailed HR
evaluation and the two HR modules to be considered would be recruitment on
Indian Railways and system of selection/ promotion.
- Standing Committee for HR benchmarking has
been constituted which would do a preliminary analysis for various
activities in identified areas department-wise in one or two key areas for
undertaking holistic review of manpower deployment.
- For rationalisation of gazetted man power
across Indian Railways, one of the big four HR audit companies would be
identified and entrusted with the task of studying the entire gazetted
manpower as exiting on Indian Railways and given the technological
development/changes in operational and maintenance practices, what should
be the optimal level of gazetted manpower on Indian Railways in the coming
years.
- Four holiday homes at Goa, Tirupati,
Manali and Puri, have been identified for upgradation and concerned
Railways directed to initiate work for the same. Five new holiday homes
across different locations will be identified for fresh opening and 10
existing Holiday homes will be identified for refurbishing and
augmentation .
- Comprehensive instructions for providing
mandatory Yoga Training in all Training Centres to cover all employees by
2019-20, will be implemented.
- ERP based HRMS will be implemented.
Detailed estimates for the project have been prepared. A consultant is
proposed to be hired for scanning the HR environment of Indian Railways,
suggest best practices/reengineering and assist in the selecting most
suitable partner for implementing the HRMS project.
- Over the next 3-4 years Pilot project for
HRMS over one Zonal Railway and one division would be conducted and
thereafter rolled out over entire Indian Railways.
- Centralised employee database with contact
numbers being created by using in house resources for facilitating direct
communication by top mgmt. It would lay foundation for a comprehensive ERP
based Human Resource Management System.
- The use of web based software is proposed
for preparation and uploading of Medical Reports of Engineering Services
(ESE) candidates from the 17 Zonal Railway Hospitals, to the E(GR)I
Section.
- Regular & timely allocation of
services to the Engineering services candidates through the NIC Customized
software.
- Planning the scheme for rolling out
Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance system over Zonal Railways. The
experience gained in implementing the scheme in first phase will help in
extending it to field offices.
- MOU signed with UIDAI for Aadhaar
enrolment of Railway employees, pensioners and their families. Scheme
planned for Chief Personnel Officers of Zonal Railways to function as
Register under UIDAI Scheme.
- For the recruitments in future through RRB
and RRC, on line applications are proposed to be called.
- To match with best practices on-line
examination is also being planned by RRB.
- RRB has also planned a proposal to develop
software for allocating different posts to the candidates on the basis of
their merit cum preference.
- It is proposed to take up 33,000 staff
quarters for focused attention for repair and maintenance.
Health
Directorate
Major Initiatives:-
- New Drug Procurement Policy issued.
- Empanelment of Private Diagnostic Centres
for outsourcing investigations of Railway Beneficiaries streamlined.
- Revised Policy on Medical Insurance and
Reimbursement issued.
- Financial Ceiling limit for calling
Consultants on case to case basis to Railway Hospitals removed.
- For better Implementation of Food
Standards & Safety Authority (FSSA) policy decision of one post of
Food Safety Officer (FSO)
- A new Standardised MOU for empanelment of
Private Hospitals developed.
- EOI asked for from CGHS Empanelled Hospitals
for empanelment with railways for cashless treatment scheme in emergency
- To attract Medical Graduates to join
Railways EOL rules for Post Graduation liberalised.
- This year close to 100 UPSC selected
Doctors have joined Railways.
Security
Directorate
1.
Major Initiatives
- A 24×7 security helpline made functional
through Security Control Rooms of RPF to provide round the clock security
related assistance to passengers. This Helpline is functioning through a
three digit no. 182.
- An App is being especially designed for
women commuters.
- CCTV surveillance system is being
strengthened under an Integrated Security System which is under
installation at 202 stations and 91 stations been provided with CCTV
cameras under ISS. In addition 121 baggage scanners, 191 DFMDs, 986 HHMDs
and 74 BD items also been procured.
- RPF Security Management System (RSMS)-
Pilot project successfully implemented over Central and Western Railway
along with Security Control Rooms of all the Zonal Railways headquarters
and Railway Board over 187 locations. Roll-out phase of project over
Indian Railways sanctioned and detailed estimates under examination in
Boards office.
- A total of 49 RPF/RPSF personnel awarded
with Indian Police Medal/President Police Medal during 2014 & 2015.
- Indian Railways is represented by RPF in
Security Platform of UIC for international cooperation on issues related
to railway security. Currently, DG/RPF is the chairman of UIC Security
Platform.
- Setting up of three new RPSF Battalions is
under process to further strengthen railway security in vulnerable
sections of the Indian Railways.
- Notification for recruitment of 1599
ladies staff is under process to be issued.
- During the year 20.59 lakh persons
prosecuted by RPF under relevant provisions of the RLY Act over Indian
Railways.
1.
Action Plan
- Implementation of Integrated Security
System over all the sensitive stations over IR.
- Implementation of Norms Committee Report
in phased manner to equip the Force with security equipment, vehicles as
recommended by Norms Committee Report.
- Provision of proper building, office
space, malkhana, lock-up, armoury for all the RPF Posts for efficient
professional working of the Force.
- Construction of standardized barracks with
basic amenities Construction of adequate separate barracks to accommodate
ladies RPF personnel.
- Augmentation of manpower
- Setting up of Research & Development
Cell for Study and Planning for Railway Security
- Networking of all the RPF Posts, Reserve
Lines, Battalions, Security Control Rooms
- Setting up of a world class Training
Academy for training of RPF Officers and staff and setting up of a world
class commando training facility for RPF
- Upgradation of infrastructure at all the
RPF Training centers
- Setting up permanent RPF Recruitment Board
on the pattern of RRBs to ensure that the vacancies are filled in a
planned and organized manner
- Upgradation of infrastructure at all the
RPF Training centers
- Legal empowerment of RPF by way of
amendment in the RPF Act
- Access control over all important railway
stations
Sports
Directorate
Achievements:-
- In the Asian Games held at Incheon, South
Korea from 19.09.2014 to 04.10.2014; Indian Railways with the contingent
of 72 athletes and 9 coaches formed a sizeable component of the Indian
Team. 26 Athletes from Indian Railways won medals in total of 12
events. Out of 57 Medals won by India, Railway bagged 12 Medals.
- Railway sportspersons as a part of Indian
contingent at Commonwealth Games-2014, (CWG) at Glasgow, Scotland from
23.07.2014 to 03.08.2014, again brought glory to the nation by bagging 9
medals out of total 64 medals won by India.
- In additional to above, Indian Railways
Hockey (Men) Team won Gold Medal in National Championship held at Pune
from 16.04.2015 to 28.04.2015 after the year 1997.
Legal
Directorate
Achievements:-
- During the last one year more than 1200
references have been dealt.
- Competent advocates were appointed in
number of cases/contempt cases which were defended successfully and thus
avoided passing of any adverse orders from the courts.
- Panels of Railway Advocates for High
Court/CAT Benches Aurangabad, Patna and Ranchi have been revised and
submitted for approval of competent Authority.
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