Organisational structure

Main article: Indian Railway organisational structure Indian Railways is a department owned and controlled by the Government of India, via the Ministry of Railways. As of May 2011, the Railway Ministry is headed by Dinesh Trivedi, the Union Minister for Railways, and assisted by two ministers of State for Railways. Indian Railways is administered by the Railway Board, which has a chairman, five members and a financial commissioner.[6]

[edit] Railway zones

A schematic map of the Indian Railways network, showing the various zones (as existed in 2009).

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai First Railway Station in India. Also World Heritage Site Indian Railways is divided into zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions. The number of zones in Indian Railways increased from six to eight in 1951, nine in 1952 to sixteen in 2003[7]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-7"[8]. Each zonal railway is made up of a certain number of divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of sixty-eight divisions.[3]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-8"[9]

Each of the sixteen zones is headed by a General Manager (GM) who reports directly to the Railway Board. The zones are further divided into divisions under the control of Divisional Railway Managers (DRM). The divisional officers of engineering, mechanical, electrical, signal and telecommunication, accounts, personnel, operating, commercial and safety branches report to the respective Divisional Manager and are in charge of operation and maintenance of assets. Further down the hierarchy tree are the Station Masters who control individual stations and the train movement through the track territory under their stations' administration. Sl. No 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Name Date Rout Ab Headq Establish e br. uarters ed KMs CR Divisions

Central East Central East Coast Eastern North Central North Eastern North Western

1951-11Mumba 3905 Mumbai, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur, Nagpur 05 i

EC 2002-10Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, 3628 Hajipur R 01 Sonpur EC 2003-04Bhuban 2572 Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Visakhapatnam oR 01 eswar ER 1952-04 2414 Kolkata Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda NC 2003-04Allahab 3151 Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi R 01 ad NE 1952 R 3667 Gorakh Izzatnagar, Lucknow, Varanasi pur

7.

N 2002-10W 5459 Jaipur Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner, Jodhpur 01 R

8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Northeast NF 1958-01Guwah 3907 Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia, Lumding, Tinsukia Frontier R 15 ati Northern South Central NR 1952-046968 Delhi 14 Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad

SC 1966-10Secund Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, 5803 R 02 erabad Nanded, Vijayawada

South East SE 2003-04Bilaspu 2447 Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur Central CR 01 r South Eastern SE 1955 R 2631 Kolkata Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore

13. South

SW 2003-04- 3177 Hubli

Western 14. Southern 15. West Central

R 01 SR 1951-04Chenna Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Palakkad, 5098 014 i Salem, Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram)

W 2003-04Jabalpu 2965 Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota CR 01 r W 1951-11Mumba Mumbai Central, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, 6182 R 05 i Bhavnagar, Vadodara

16. Western

Konkan Railway is not a zone of the Indian Railways, but a subsidiary company (along with the state governments of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa). Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC), that has constructed and operates Delhi Metro network, is a joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Delhi and is an independent organisation not connected to the Indian Railways. Similarly Bangalore Metro, Hyderabad Metro, Mumbai Metro and Chennai Metro are also independent organisations.

[edit] Recruitment and training

WDM-3A diesel passenger and freight locomotive of Indian Railways at Shantiniketan, India With approximately 1.36 million employees, Indian Railways is the world's second largest employer. Staff are classified into gazetted (Group 'A' and 'B') and non-gazetted (Group 'C' and 'D') employees.[10] The recruitment of Group 'A' gazetted employees is carried out by the Union Public Service Commission through exams conducted by it.[11] The recruitment to Group 'C' and 'D' employees on the Indian Railways is done through 19 Railway Recruitment Boards which are controlled by the Railway Recruitment Control Board (RRCB).[12] The training of all cadres is entrusted and shared between six centralised training institutes. These are following list of Group A services which are recruited by the UPSC(Union Public Service Commission ) of India UPSC Civil Services Exam 1) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group A. 2) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group 'A'. 3) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group A.

4) Railway Protection Force, Group A UPSC Engineering Services Exam 1) Indian Railway Service of Engineers, Group A 2) Indian Railway Stores Service, Group A 3) Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers, Group A 4) Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers, Group A 5) Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers, Group A UPSC Special Class Railway Apprentice Examination for recruitment to the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers See also: Centralised Training Institutes of the Indian Railways

[edit] Production units

A WAP5 locomotive Indian Railways manufactures much of its rolling stock and heavy engineering components at its six manufacturing plants, called Production Units, which are managed directly by the Ministry. Popular rolling stock builders such as CLW and DLW for electric and diesel locomotives; ICF and RCF for passenger coaches are Production Units of Indian Railways. Over the years, Indian Railways has not only achieved selfsufficiency in production of rolling stock in the country but also exported rolling stock to other countries. Each of these six production units is headed by a General Manager, who also reports directly to the Railway Board. The six Production Units are:Sl. No 1. 2. 3. 4. Name Chittaranjan Locomotive Works Diesel Locomotive Works Diesel-Loco Modernisation Works Integral Coach Factory Abb Year r. Established CL 1947 W DL 1961 W DM 1981 W ICF 1952 Location Main products

Chittaranja Electric Locomotives n Varanasi Patiala Chennai Diesel-electric Locomotives Diesel-electric Locomotives Passenger coaches

5. 6.

Rail Coach Factory Rail Wheel Factory

RCF 1986 RW 1984 F

Kapurthala Passenger coaches Bangalore Railway wheels and axles

[edit] Other subsidiaries

There also exist independent organisations under the control of the Railway Board for electrification, modernisation, research and design and training of officers, each of which is headed by an officer of the rank of General Manager. A number of Public Sector Undertakings, which perform railway-related functions ranging from consultancy to ticketing, are also under the administrative control of the Ministry of railways. There are eleven public undertakings under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways,[13] viz. Rail India Technical and Economic Services Limited (RITES); International Limited; (IRCON)

Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC); (CONCOR); (KRCL). Limited

Limited (Rail

Limited (IRCTC); Tel);

Mumbai Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (MRVNL); (RVNL); and

Limited (DFCCIL); and (BWEL). . .