Vision 2020 - Transportation Research Group of India

Government of India
Ministry of Railways
(Railway Board)
accountable performance and cross-functional teamwork would form the core of IR's HR strategy. Railways
will attract, nurture and retain top talent in the country to meet the challenges ahead.
14 Accounting Reforms
The ongoing process of accounting reform would be speeded up. Complete switchover to accrual-based
accounting in consonance with the accounting standards stipulated by Government Accounting Standards
Advisory Board (GASAB) would be attempted. This would enable activity-wise costing that can aid pricing
decisions and management information and control systems for business lines, cost and profit centres. This
could also being the railway's accounting in line with the globally accepted accounting standards. An
extensive and state-of-the-art infrastructure of computing and data processing network will constitute the
bed-rock of the system. Computerization of earnings and expenditure at the transaction level will be
completed as a part of the effort. This exercise will be targeted for completion by 2020
15 Information Technology
IT tools will continue to underpin Railway's efforts to enhance customer satisfaction, maximize
productivity of assets and improve governance. Priorities would include improving the interface
with and providing real-time information to citizens, freight customers and passengers on various
devices including mobile phones using satellite-based in train tracking systems, introduction of
paper less mobile ticketing systems and Enterprise Management System to improve productivity
and efficiency.
Roll-out of major applications like Passenger Reservation System (PRS), Unreserved Ticketing System
(UTS), Freight Operation Information System (FOIS), Rake Maintenance System (RMS) and Terminal
Management System (TMS), Control Office Applications (COA), Crew Management System (CMS),
Passenger Management System (PMS) etc. will be completed by 2010. Other components of FOIS and
Passenger Management System such as Management Systems for locos, coaches, wagons, workshops etc.
will be completed and rolled out by 2011. Applications for fixed assets like track, power supply equipment etc
and ERP for production units will be completed by 2012-13.
All IT facilities and platforms will be integrated through intelligent and inter-operable systems to enable IR to
respond with speed to customer's needs, business opportunities and external challenges. For this purpose it
will be ensured that:
All areas of infrastructure management will provide automated information systems.
nIntroduction of devices for all monitoring systems have to comply with providing automated data to
Management Information System.
nEvent capturing for business related applications having customer interface will be automated through use of
intelligent devices integrated with the applications.
nDecision
Support Systems will be provided in all critical areas of infrastructure management for conducting
business.
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