RailPost Bureau
November 8,2019
Indian Railways launched three IT applications for proper monitoring of projects . These apps will be rolled out on a pan -India basis. The first among them is the CRS Sanction Management System. CRS stands for Commission of Railway Safety.
CRS Sanction is an important aspect in construction, maintenance and up-gradation of railway assets. The online CRS app will encompass all works pertaining to level crossings (closure, manning, shifting etc.) and minor bridges. Further modules under development in this app are increase of speed over Turnouts and loop lines, inspection of new lines and doubling
The benefits are-
- Expeditious preparation and processing of cases for CRS Sanction.
- Effective monitoring of compliance of observations raised by the CRS.
- On-Line Repository of circulars/check-lists/guidelines related to CRS Sanction.
- Managerial reports to monitor the cases, comparative performance.
Second in the list of apps is the rail-road crossing GAD approval system: This project for online e-Governance platform was developed by Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. It aims to expedite preparation, processing & approval of General Agreement Drawings (GADs) related to construction of Road Over Bridges (ROB)/Road Under Bridges (RUB). It has been running successfully since 2014. Now, a module has been developed to cover cases of construction of ROBs/RUBs for States & UTs also.
The benefits are-
- Accountability of Railways and State Governments/UTs is fixed to each stage for approval of proposals.
- Better and real time coordination between the stakeholders (Railways/States).
- Facilitates users to get proposal status through mail and SMS at each stage.
- Complete proposal is targeted to be approved in maximum of 60 days.
- All information related to the proposal and contact person is available within the proposal.
The third in the list is TMS (Track Management System) for construction: This app has been developed for new assets being constructed by the construction/project organisation. The assets master data can now be regularly filled during the stage of construction and completion of assets, by the construction officials before itself final scrutiny and test check by the open line officials.
The benefits are-
- Data validation at source.
- Ease in data entry and correction thereof.
- Easy checking/verification of data entry.
- For every data the ownership and responsibility is defined and fixed in the application design.