CommercialPedia Indian Railways commercial circulars and policies

Merry-Go-Round(MGR) System

Open the third-party archive copy

Summary

Operation of Merry-Go-Round (MGR) System by Railways Trip/ day Trips/day Trips/day Trips/day Trips /day

Text of the circular

Rates Circular No. 17 of 2016

भारत सरकार (GOVERNMENT OF INDIA) रेल मंत्रालय (MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS) रेलवे ats (RAILWAY BOARD)

No. TCR/1078/2008/1 New Delhi, dated: 20.05.2016

The General Manager, All Indian Railways.

Sub: Operation of Merry-Go-Round (MGR) System by Railways.

In terms of Rates Circular No. 07 of 2016 instructions were issued for the operation of Merry-Go-Round (MGR) System by Railways for the period from

01.04.2016 to 31.03.2018. The matter has been reviewed and it has been decided to modify/clarify the above referred Rates Circular by enhancing the number of range of Rates Slabs (based on number of trips per day) from 3 to 5 for BOBRN wagons and 2 to 3 for BOXN wagons in order to eliminate the need to rounding off the average number of trips per day to arrive at the applicable Rates Slabs. Modified instructions for operation of Merry-Go-Round (MGR) System by Railways are as under:

1. In order to provide an economical and reliable alternative short lead traffic, a revised scheme of operation under MGR System has been formulated by Board as detailed below:

2. Operation of MGR:

The guidelines specifying terms and conditions for operation of MGR system are given below:

(i) All proposals for MGR system should be approved by the General Manager of the concerned Zonal Railway on the recommendations of the Committee consisting of COM, CCM and FA&CAO of the Zonal Railway.

(ii) The MGR Terminals at both ends shall be privately owned. The customer owning the terminals will provide necessary infra-structure for efficient loading and unloading operations.

(iii) | The MGR Terminals should have FOIS connectivity and should be operated under Terminal Management System (TMS) and enabled for e-payment of freight and other charges to the railways. Freight payment should be in line with the guidelines issued for e-payment of freight. The system shall be provided by the party at their own cost.

(iv) The permanent way (Rail track) should be provided by the customer. The track should be fit for running of goods train with axle load of 22.9 tonne at a speed not lower than 40 kmph.

(v) Signaling equipments shall be provided by the Railways at customer's cost.

(vi) The customer shall maintain the terminals, rail track and other assets owned by them in accordance with the standards specified by Railway. However, the responsibility for maintaining the terminals, rail track and other assets owned by the customer may be entrusted to Railways on payment of usual charges as per separate agreement for this purpose.

Latagumon “1 Sadie

(vii)

(viii)

(xii)

(xiil)

(xiv)

(xv)

Rates Circular No. 17 of 2016

Railways will provide locos, wagons, brake-vans and other rolling stock as per requirement for running of the rakes under MGR system.

Railways will deploy one rake of BOBRN or BOXN as the case may be.

Customer should offer loading of minimum one rake per day under the MGR system. More than one rake will be supplied if there is justified need.

Terminals at both ends will operate round the clock.

Permissible free time will be 3 hours for loading and 2 hours for unloading in case of BOBRN and 3 hours for loading and 5 hours for unloading in case of BOXN wagons.

Normal demurrage rules will apply at loading/unloading terminals for detention of rake beyond free time only in the case where loading /unloading both for MGR and IR system take place and co-exist.

Customer shall provide an in-motion electronic weighbridge at the loading point to ensure that there is no overloading of wagons. If the wagons are overloaded, extant rule for levy of punitive charges shall apply.

Payment of penalty, demurrage or any other charge i.e other than freight shall be decided by the consignor and consignee in the agreement as to who will bear the cost between them and Railway shall charge the same accordingly.

If Railway fails to provide rolling stock/ crew on demand beyond 48 hours, the period shall be treated as ‘Dies-Non’. The loss in load

Extract shown above; the full text is available in the search app.

More on this subject

All freight circulars · Open this circular in the search app · Search all 7,826 documents