Railway employees both serving and retired have a reason to cheer. Indian Railways (IR) on Thursday launched a digitized online Human Resource Management System (HRMS) to improve the efficiency and productivity of its employee related works.
This move will benefit 27 lakh families. IR as on March 31,2019 had 12.27 lakh employees and close to 15 lakh pensioners. The wage bill of Indian Railways was over Rs 1.34 lakh crore with a per capita wage per employee at Rs 10.97 lakh per annum.
| Year | Group A&B | Group C | Group D | Total number of employees in thousands | wage bill in Rs crore |
| FY19 | 16.6 | 1075.8 | 134.5 | 1226.9 | 134364.18 |
| FY18 | 16.6 | 1133.5 | 120.3 | 1270.4 | 128714.74 |
| FY17 | 16.4 | 1211.8 | 80.4 | 1309 | 118501.74 |
| FY16 | 16.7 | 1229.3 | 84.3 | 1330 | 93001.24 |
| FY15 | 17.1 | 1229.9 | 79.4 | 1326 | 84759.69 |
| FY14 | 17.1 | 1187.9 | 129 | 1334 | 75893.05 |
| FY13 | 17 | 1196.7 | 93.4 | 1307 | 67004.42 |
| FY12 | 17.3 | 1161.8 | 126.6 | 1306 | 58638.28 |
| FY11 | 16.9 | 1079.2 | 235.9 | 1332 | 51776.57 |
| FY01 | 14.8 | 900.3 | 630.2 | 1545 | 18841.4 |
| FY91 | 14.3 | 891.4 | 746.1 | 1652 | 5166.3 |
| FY81 | 11.2 | 721.1 | 839.9 | 1572 | 1316.7 |
| FY71 | 8.1 | 583.2 | 782.9 | 1374 | 459.9 |
| FY61 | 4.4 | 463.1 | 689.5 | 1157 | 205.2 |
| FY51 | 2.3 | 223.5 | 687.8 | 914 | 113.8 |
Group A- Directly Recruited Officers, Group-B- Promotee Officers, Group C-Supervisory Cadre and Group D- Workers
Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman & CEO, Railway Board launched the following modules of HRMS & user depot via video conferencing on Thursday.HRMS has been envisaged as a useful tool for IR’s employees and pensioners.
Three modules inaugurated
Yadav inaugurated three modules of the HRMS namely employee self service module, Provident fund advance module and the settlement module.
Employee Self Service (ESS) module enables railway employees to interact with various modules of HRMS including communication regarding change of data.
Provident Fund (PF) Advance module enables Railway employees to check their PF balance and apply for PF advance online. Advance processing will be online and employees will also be able to see the status of their PF application online.
Settlement module digitizes the entire settlement process of retiring employees. Employees can fill their settlement / pension booklet online. Service details are fetched online and pension is processed online completely. This will eliminate use of paper and it also facilitates monitoring for timely processing of settlement dues of retiring employees.
Prior to these, IR had already launched other modules of HRMS such as
1. Employee Master module which stores all basic information details of Railway employee.
2. Electronic Service Record module replacing physical Service Records storing service records of employees in digital format,
3.Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR) module digitizing the complete process of writing annual performance Appraisal of all 12 lakh non gazetted Railway employees,
4.Electronic Pass module replacing the physical paper pass,
5. Office Order Module meant both for the issue of office orders and updation of data on joining of new employees, promotion, transfer of employees and retirement of employees in HRMS database.