Udyog Manthan 2021
5 Feb 2021
The date is 5 Feb 2021
Webinar Video
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Background Material for the Udyog Manthan Webinar circulated by DPIIT
Webinar on
RAILWAYS SECTOR
Fri, 5 February, 2021
The Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest rail-network under single management, and its route length network is spread over 1.2
lakh kms, with 13,523 passenger trains and 9,146 freight trains. The Indian rail network transports 23 million travellers and 3 million
tonnes (MT) of freight daily between 7,349 stations. The Indian Railways plans to run 100 percent on electricity by 2024 and become a
net-zero emission network by 2030.
The railways sector has rigorous safety standards :
• CENELEC (the European Committee
for Electrotechnical Standardization)
produces the main standard for the
railway industry, EN 50128. The international published version of the
CENELEC EN 50128 standard is IEC
62279. The content of both publications is identical.
• The EN 50128 / 50657 standards outline procedures and technical
requirements for the development of
programmable electronic systems for
use in railway applications. It is applicable to all cases where safety is, or
may be, a consideration. The EN 50128
standard also requires use of coding
standards such as MISRA and CERT.
• The standard EN 50657:2017 specifies
the process and technical requirements for the development of software for programmable electronic
systems for use in rolling stock applications. The standard adapts EN
50128:2011 for the application in the
Rolling Stock domain, but is shares a
lot in common including the definition of the Software Integrity Levels
and use of coding standards
1. Research Designs & Standards Organization is the sole R&D organization of Indian Railways working under
the Ministry of Railways of India,
which functions as a technical adviser
to the Railway Board, the Zonal railways and the Railway production
units with respect to the design and
standardization of railway equipment.
2. Standards developed by RDSO are
categorized in the following 16 areas:
Bridges & structures, Carriage, Electric loco, EMU & power supply, Electrical energy management, Geotechnical energy, Metallurgical & chemical,
Motive power, Signal, QA-Civil, Telecommunication, Track design, Traffic,
Track machines & monitoring, Traction installations, Wagon design.
3. ISO/TS 22163- quality management
system specific to rail sector
4. The International Railway Industry
Standard (IRIS) is a common, global
method for evaluating business management systems throughout the
railway supply chain. It is based on
ISO 9001 and tailored to the specific
requirements of the international
railway industry.
Taking ‘Make in India’ initiative forward,
some of the track maintenance machines such as Utility Vehicles (UTVs),
Rail Bound Maintenance Vehicles
(RBHVs), Track Laying Equipment (TLE),
Rail Threader (RT) and Rail-cum-Road
Vehicle (RCRVs) have been fully indigenized.
Measures to achieve quality and productivity in Indian Railways
Rail Inspection
Rail inspection is the practice of examining rail tracks for flaws that could lead to catastrophic
failures. With increased rail traffic carrying heavier loads at higher speeds, a quicker more
efficient way of inspecting railways is needed.
Mechanization
One way to enhance the operations of the railways is mechanization, where manual practices are replaced with technology to improve efficiencies and delivery of services and safety. As a customer-facing service, this is easier said than done for the railways, as such tectonic shifts must be implemented on the job, without major disruptions to the system.
Key Challenges
1. Fiscal crunch - The working of Indian Railways is caught up between making it a financially self-sufficient organisation and serving as a transport system for the masses. This has resulted in passenger fares not responding to market forces and new trains/routes being decided on the basis of non-commercial considerations. The passenger fares have remained static for years.
2. Operational inefficiencies- There exist several operational inefficiencies, these include a gignatic employee base of 1.3 million as well as a centralised organisation with hierarchical decision-making which results in less than optimal speed of decision
making..
3. Lagging behind on various quality parameters- Indian Railways lags behind on many quality parameters and has made a habit of missing most of its targets, these include those related to electrification, track renewals, bridge works, increasing tracks etc.
4. Quality of Services- Supply Constraints, Upgradation of Quality of
Services and Slow Moving Passenger
Services are some of other major
challenges.
5. Speed of trains is another issue as a
high Speed Trains evolution is necessary in order to compete economically with other nations.
6. There has been decreasing traffic
growth in passenger travel in Railways due to increase in preference to
Air and Road travel due to rise in
income and decrease in costs related
to travel.
7. Other issues include:
a. Poor customer orientation in the
services provided
b. Inadequacy of costing and monitoring
system
c. Diversion of focus due to non-remunerative and non-core activities
d. Poor levels of maintenance and wide
variation in the level of technology
used.
e. Insu cient capacity in key stretches
with competition from ‘higher priority’
passenger trains is further aggravated
by the shortage of rolling stock.
f. Non-responsiveness to demand variations.
2020
15 Jan 2020
Indian Railways offers manufacturing opportunities worth 4 bln USD to industry
The Indian Railways has offered new business opportunities in the manufacturing sector worth 28,000 crore Indian rupees (4 billion U.S. dollars) across various areas such as rolling-stock manufacturing, sub-assembly or component manufacturing, machinery and tool manufacturing, and project execution.
new report of Opportunities for Capital Goods Industry with Indian Railways and Metros, prepared by the Capital Goods Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/15/c_138707137.htm
2008
Vision for Railways 2025
Prepared in 2008
Estimated originating freight traffic more
than 2050 million tons by 2025.
z Rail transport share in total originating traffic-30%. Rail
share 51.5% for leads beyond 300km
Dedicated Freight Corridors – on GQ & Diagonals
Number of passengers increased from 3915 to 5378
million from 1995 to 2005, an increase of about
1500 million passengers.
Optimistic projections suggest passenger traffic
could grow to 7000 million in 2010 and more than
14000 million by 2025.
Passenger kilometers could increase to more than
2175 billion PKMs in 2025 from 880 billion PKMs in
2010 and 1370 billion PKMs in 2015.
Based on feasibility- High speed passenger corridors to
link cities located 700-1000 km away
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/planning/Workshop%20-%20PLG%20COMM,%20IR,%20WORLD%20BANK/26.03.09/Sunira_Bassi.pdf
2013
National Transport Committee ReportVision for Railways 2032
The total transport demand for the year 2025-2026 at approximately 5,300 billion NTKMs.
The CAGR in percentage terms comes to 8.5 per cent. If the projection of RITES is
extrapolated to 2032 at the overall growth rate of 8.5 per cent, the size of inter-regional freight movement comes to about 8,700 billion NTKMs.
But to attain the desired market share of 50 per cent of the freight (to reduce inefficiency in transport due to more use of road in India compared to other countries), railways’ freight traffic has to grow at an average of 12 per cent over the next 20 years.
Over the past 15 years, the elasticity of growth of passenger kilometres vis-a-vis GDP growth has been 1.1. Using this elasticity and the GDP growth estimates, the passenger traffic (in PKM) is expected to grow by a factor of 5.5 over the next 20 years.
http://planningcommission.nic.in/sectors/NTDPC/volume3_p1/railways_v3_p1.pdf
2009
Railway Board
Vision 2020
http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Railways%20Vision%20Document%202020.pdf
2015
June 2015
French transport Alstom is looking into Make in India to double its business in the country to Euro 800 million (Rs. 5,700 crore in the next three years). The company is expanding its Chennai facility and opening a new factory in Coimbatore this year.
September 2015
The railways have identified the projects that will be funded by LIC to the tune of Rs. 1.5 lakh crore. The projects will be completed by 2019. 24 congested corridors have been identified for capacity expansion.
The identified corridors include
Delhi-Howrah, Howrah-Chennai, Chennai-Delhi, Delhi - Mumbai, Mumbai - Chennai
November 2015
Morgan Stanley Research's Industrial Analyst Akshay Soni estimated that India will spend Rs 6.34 lakh on railway over the next 5 years, 20 of incremental GDP growth will come due to this infrastructure spending.
http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/national/india-may-spend-rs-634-lakh-crore-on-railways-over-5-yrs-morgan-stanley/ar-AAfMs4n?li=AAaeRVN&ocid=SK2MDHP
2016
1 JANUARY 2016
Railway budget for 2015-16: appx. 1,87,000 cr.
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/view_section.jsp?id=0,1,304,366,539
In 2009 A VISION STATEMENT for 2020 was announced.
18 Jan 2016
Indian Railways plans to invest $ 142 billion in five years (2016-2020) and hope to double this investment figure in the next five-year cycle (2020-2025)
http://www.business-standard.com/content/b2b-manufacturing-industry/indian-railways-plans-to-invest-142-billion-in-five-years-suresh-prabhu-116011800166_1.html
17 Feb 2016
Big Boost to the Railway Sector: CCEA approves construction of additional Railway lines
The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved construction of six Railway Lines and a Railway bridge to cater to both increased passenger and freight needs in various areas of the country. The proposals will cost over Rs.10,700 crore and most part of the expenditure will be met through extra budgetary resources (Institutional Financing). Details of the six approved projects are as follows:
1) Doubling of Hubli-Chickajur railway line
Doubling of 190 km long Hubli-Chickajur broad gauge single railway line has been approved. The total estimated expenditure will be Rs.1294.13 crore. The project is likely to be completed in 4¼ years during 13th Plan period and will cover the areas of Chitradurga, Davangere, Haveri and Dharwad.
Entire route from Pune-Miraj-Hubli-Bengalore has been identified for doubling which will not only improve smooth flow of traffic but also boost overall development of the region.
This stretch is part of an important rail link of passenger trains between Mumbai and Bangalore and goods trains to the ports at Mangalore. On this route, doubling between Bangalore-Tumkur and Arsikere-Chickajur have already been completed. On balance portion, doubling work between Hubli-Londa part of Hubli-Londa-Vasco-da-Gama, is also in progress.
2) Construction of Wardha (Sewagram) – Ballarshah 3rd railway line
Construction of Wardha (Sewagram) – Ballarshah 3rd railway line of 132 km will be taken up at an estimated completion cost of Rs.1443.32 crore. The project is likely to be completed in five years during 13th Plan period and will be located in Wardha and Chandrapur districts.
The line capacity utilization of the section is saturated and running of additional Mail/Express and Goods traffic over the section cause detention to the trains. Wardha (Sewagram) – Ballarshah section is very important from goods originating point of view of Nagpur Division where many collieries and many sidings are proposed on the section.
3) Doubling of Ramna-Singrauli railway line
Doubling of 160 km long Ramna – Singarauli railway line has been approved at a cost Rs.2675.64 crore and is likely to be completed by 2019-20. The project will cover the districts of Garhwa in Jharkhand, Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh and Sonbhadra in Uttar Pradesh.
The Ramna-Singrauli section falls in Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway. At present traffic utilization of the section is 105%, resulting in detention of trains and loss of revenue. In order to attain the desired fluidity and increase in the sectional capacity, doubling of this single line section is very essential from operational point of view. The project will serve the freight and passenger traffic needs in the jurisdiction of Northern Coal Fields and series of power plants and associated small scale industries in and around Anpara and Shaktinagar, namely Anpara Super Thermal Power Plant, Rihand Super Thermal Power Plant, Renusagar Hydro Power Plant,Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant, Vidhyachal Super Thermal Power Plant.
4) Construction of 3rd railway line between Anuppur-Katni
Construction of 165 km long 3rd railway line between Anuppur-Katni in Madhya Pradesh has also been apporved at a cost of Rs.1595.76 crore. The project is likely to be completed in 5 ¼ years spanning over 12th and 13th plan period.
The project would cover the districts of Anuppur, Shahdol, Umaria and Katni districts of Madhya Pradesh.
There has been tremendous surge in coal and one mining which has been geared up in the recent past and ambitious plans for an enormous leap forward in the ensuing years to tap these resources lying hitherto untapped. As a result of the rapid industrialization, number of industrial townships have also grown up along the project line. These developments have resulted in large demand for additional coaching services on the section. With this anticipated increase of freight traffic, the capacity utilization will reach upto 175%. Apart from this substantial additional coal traffic from IB valley, Korba area, East Corridor and Gevra Road – Pendra Road Project would be channelized through this route to the respective destinations. In order to meet the growth in the freight and passenger traffic, tripling of 3rd line between Anuppur-Katni is essential.
5) Doubling of Katni-Singrauli railway line
Construction of doubling of 261 km long Katni – Singarauli railway at a cost of Rs.2084.90 crore has been approved. The project will be completed in 5 ¼ years. The project would cover the districts of Katni, Shahdol, Sidhi and Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh.
Katni-Singrauli is a critical and busy section carrying coal from Northern Coal Fields towards Western and Northern thermal power plants. This section intersects Allahabad-Mumbai route at Katni. Provision of doubling between Katni-Singrauli section would provide the necessary line capacity for introduction of additional mail/express and passenger trains to serve the people of the area and transportation of coal from collieries. This will also boost overall development of the region.
6) Construction of additional Bridge and doubling project of Rampur Dumra-Tal-Rajendrapul
Construction of additional Bridge and doubling project of Rampur Dumra-Tal-Rajendrapul sector in Bihar at a cost of Rs.1700.24 crore has also got CCEA’s approval today.
The project is likely to be completed by 2019-20. The project is located in Begusarai and Patna districts of Bihar.
The existing rail-cum-road bridge at Hathidah has single line track and doubling is not possible. Present traffic utilization of the section is 123.5%. At present this is the only railway bridge connecting both North and South Bihar. Existing single line has resulted in heavy detention of goods and passenger traffic.
In order to streamline the operation of traffic in this single line section, it is very essential that one additional bridge and doubling of this section is undertaken. By providing this facility, there will be ample fluidity in maintaining train operations as well as introduction of more passenger/goods trains in the section and it will augment line capacity too. This will also facilitate in minimizing the running time of trains between Kiul-Barauni and Mokama-Barauni section and will ease out the existing operational constraints in this section.
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