Railways Structure

  1. Rail Development Authority: To enable fair pricing of services, promote competition, protect customer interests and determine efficiency standards; draft bill to be ready after holding extensive stakeholder consultations.
  2. Proposed to reorganize the Railway Board along business lines and suitably empower Chairman, Railway Board.
  3. Cross functional directorates to be set up in Railway Board to focus on areas like non-fare revenues, speed enhancement, motive power and information technology
  4. Explore the possibility of unifying cadres for fresh recruitment of officers
  5. Appoint Key Customer Managers to liaison with our major freight stakeholders
  6. Each Zonal Railway will develop customer commitment charter indicating service level commitments of IR
  7. Strengthen PPP cell to improve ease of doing business with IR
  8. 33%  reservation to women in reserved quota in Railways will be introduced
  9. Investing in the future: to set up a R&D organization, a Special Railway Establishment for Strategic Technology & Holistic Advancement, SRESTHA.