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| Type | Commercial Circular |
|---|---|
| Topic | freight |
| Currency | Currency not verified |
assisted sidings, departmental sidings and defence sidings.
Chapter 2
Report No.24 of 2015 (Railways) Volume I
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Chapter 2: Traffic - Commercial and Operations
The Traffic Department comprises four streams viz., Traffic, Commercial,
Coaching and Catering & Tourism. The activities related to these streams are
performed by the concerned directorates headed by Additional Members/
Executive Director. At the Railway Board level, the Traffic Department is
headed by Member Traffic.
The activities such as marketing, traffic development, improvements in quality
of railway service provided to customers, regulation of passenger/ coaching/
freight tariffs, monitoring of collection, accountal and remittance of revenues
from passenger/ freight traffic are managed by Commercial Directorate. The
activities such as planning of transportation services – both long-term and
short-term, management of day to day running of trains including their time
tabling, ensuring availability and proper maintenance of rolling stock to meet
the expected demand and conditions for safe running of trains are, however,
managed by Traffic Directorate.
The management of passenger and parcel services is done by Coaching
Directorate and activities related to catering and tourism are managed by
Catering and Tourism Directorate.
At the zonal level, the traffic department consists of two departments, viz.,
Operating department and Commercial department. These are headed by Chief
Operations Manager (COM) and Chief Commercial Manager (CCM)
respectively, who are under charge of General Manager of the concerned
Zonal Railway. At the divisional level, the Operating and Commercial
Departments are headed by Senior Divisional Operations Manager (Sr. DOM)
and Senior Divisional Commercial Manager (Sr. DCM) respectively who are
under charge of Divisional Railway Manager of the concerned Division.
The total expenditure of the Traffic Department during the year 2013-14 was
`5550.19 crore. Total Gross traffic receipt during the year was `1,39,558
crore1. During the year, apart from regular audit of vouchers and tenders, 1420
offices of the department including 559 stations were inspected.
This chapter includes one review on Management of Private sidings in IR
and two long paragraphs on Liberalized Active Retirement Scheme for
Guaranteed Employment for safety staff (LARSGESS) and Fake Indian
Currency Notes (FICNs) received through station earnings on IR covering
all Zonal Railways. These reviews/ long paragraphs are related to train
operation and railway earnings, dealt with by the Commercial department of
IR.
In addition, this chapter incorporates six Audit Paragraphs highlighting
individual irregularities pertaining to inadequate/improper agreement for
revenue sharing; non-revision of wagon hire charges; irregular waiver of
demurrage charges etc.
1 Indian Railway year book 2013-14
Report No.24 of 2015 (Railways) Volume I
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2.1 Review on 'Management of Private sidings in Indian Railways'
Executive Summary
Freight traffic is the major source of revenue for Indian Railways and plays a
vital role in industrial progress and economic growth of the country. Large share
of freight hauled by Indian Railways is loaded and unloaded at various sidings,
which are mainly either private sidings2 or assisted sidings3 of various
customers of Indian Railways. Sidings are constructed to eliminate handling of
goods at the stations and facilitate local haulage between the place of
production/ consumption and Railway station. As on 31-03-2014, out of the
total number of 1211 sidings, 835 are private sidings and the remaining are
assisted sidings, departmental sidings and defence sidings. As per changing
market and customer requirements, new sidings are opened and old ones are
closed and dismantled.
The Railways deploy resources such as rolling stock (wagons, locomotives) and
engage manpower etc. to run such sidings. The Railways
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