IT Projects with CAO/FOIS

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IT Projects with CAO/FOIS
A Status Report
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Projects in Progress

• FOIS RMS and TMS
• VSAT
• Crew Management System (CMS)
• Integrated Coaching management System (ICMS)
• Control Office Application (COA)
• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
• Web Enabled Claims Office Application
• Integration of in-motion electronic weighbridges
• Network Upgardation
• Electronic Payment Gateway (IREPG)

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Estimate and Budget
Allotment of Funds For various Projects in the
Year 2006-07
Expenditure on FOIS project has been Rs.
367.04 Cr upto June 06
COIS estimate was enhanced to Rs 17.32 Cr
(sanctioned by Rly Bd on 12.05.06)
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FOIS RMS Module

• Successfully implemented on 233 locations on IR,
  comprising Railway Board, Zonal and Divisional
  HQs, Area Controls and major yards
• More than 1100 PCs networked for this phase
• Daily and periodic reports being generated for
  Railway Board, Divisions and station level
  (around 2000 reports)

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FOIS RMS Locations
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FOIS TMS Module

• 537 locations on IR
• 214 locations on VSAT
• 324 locations online
• 126 printing RR online
• Around 1100 PCs and 400 printers supplied so far
• 668 PCs and 612 printers under supply

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FOIS TMS MODULE
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TMS VSAT locations

• 214 TMS locations have to be commissioned on
  VSATs by IRPMU
• Railway Boards target was June 2006. IRPMUs
  revised target is Sept 2006
• 53 VSATs have been installed upto 30.06.06
• 37 of these were commissioned upto June 2006
• The target for July 2006 is for commissioning 64
  locations on VSAT
• Target for 118 (6453) locations is 15th Aug 2006
• 16 locations have been commissioned upto 18.07.06
  
• Equipment has been installed at 11 locations
• Work is in progress at 10 other locations

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Additional requirement of VSAT based connectivity
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Crew Management System (CMS)

• Detailed estimate of Rs 38.16 crores sanction by
  Railway Board.
• 302 lobbies to be covered, out of which 261 are
  integrated lobbies.
• Target for completion 7.3.2007

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CMS - Locations
Details
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CMS Individual Location details -
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CMS - Progress

• Application under development and testing for
• Freight module
• Coaching, shunting and pilot module
• Suburban module
• Site Preparation
• Lump sum sanctioned _at_ Rs 1,31,000 for major and
  Rs 81,000 for minor lobbies
• Target for readiness Aug 2006
• Terminal Equipment
• Under vetting
• Target of supply - Oct 2006
• Datacom Equipment
• Under vetting. Will be procured through CRIS
• Training
• Core group and core implementers will be trained
  at CRIS
• Core group identified on all 16 zonal railways
• Training labs being set up at 5 locations

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Integrated Coaching Management System
(ICMS)

• Enhanced scope
• Punctuality Module
• Implemented on IR. Migrated module will be given
  for testing by the end of July 2006
• Coaching Stock Management Module
• Being implemented in three phases
• Software ready and under field trials at
  Nizamuddin
• Ready for roll out
• Coaching Stock Maintenance Module
• Maintenance modules scope received from Railway
  Board in July 2006.
• Target for implementation is 31.3.07
• Timetabling Module
• Time table simulation modules system
  requirements under discussion

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ICMS Coaching Stock Management Module

• Phase I 114 terminals at 41 locations
• Target for implementation 31st Aug
  2006
• Phase II - 78 terminals at 34 locations
• Target for implementation 31st Oct
  2006
• Phase III - 128 terminals at58 locations
• Target for implementation 31st Dec
  2006
• Training
• 186 staff from 136 locations trained so far
• Training labs being set up to take care of
  additional training needs
• Equipment
• Thin clients and printers supplied to all
  locations
• Datacom equipment- 57 LAN extenders supplied.
  Rest under supply
• UPSs to be procured by zonal railways
  implementation held up for want of UPSs
• 14 locations commissioned NR-1, WR-9, SECR-3
  SR-1

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ICMS Coaching Stock Management Module
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Control Office Application (COA)

• Pilot project under trial at Madurai and
  Trivandrum divisions of SR
• Functionalities tested response time issues
  application being tuned
• Tender for customization for IR being being
  awarded (76 divisional/area controls and zonal
  HQs)
• Strategy for roll out In three phases
• Phase I SR, SCR, SWR, CR, ECOR, SECR
• Phase II WR, WCR, NCR, NR, NWR
• Phase III SER, ER, ECR, NER. NFR

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Radio-frequency ID (RFID)

• Board has sanctioned a Pilot project on ECOR at
  the cost of Rs 1.92 Cr.
• Approach paper invited by CRIS from System
  Integrators
• Requirement to have seamless integration with
  existing FOIS application
• A technology group constituted in CRIS for
  in-depth review of technological options and
  their suitability in Indian conditions

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Web-enabled Claims Office Application

• Phase I
• All modules of Claims, Court, Accident, NR cell.
• Completed. Data entry being done by the Railways
  since 1.04.05
• Phase II
• Computerization of Subsidiary Claims Office
• Software development completed.
• Varanasi subsidiary claims office computerized.
• 15 offices on other railways awaiting hardware
  and network infrastructure.
• Tender under evaluation in CRIS
• Refund Goods Application
• Software developed and deployed on all 16 zonal
  railways
• Railway Claims Tribunal
• Software under development
• Training
• Staff of 15 subsidiary Offices (_at_ 2 each) have
  been imparted framing of Web-enabled claims
  application software at CRIS.
• Staff of Refund Goods offices of 16 Zonal
  Railways (_at_ 5 each) have also imparted training
  on Refund Goods office application software.
• Target - Oct 2006

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IR Electronic Payment Gateway

• Sanctioned as a separate work for Rs. 2.5 Cr in
  2004-05
• Now being implemented along with TMS
• Working for coal coming from 14 locations on ECR
  to Badarpur Thermal Power House (BTPP)
• Payment of 90 of freight on coal to BTPP is now
  through e-payment
• Board reviewing extending to other major
  customers like FCI
• Issues regarding to-pay transactions raised by
  FACAO

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Integration of in-motion electronic weighbridges

• Objective to capture 100 weighment details of
  all consignments booked through TMS
• Connectivity being planned between the
  weighbridge and TMS locations
• Interface through exchange of data by means of
  flat files demonstrated to weighbridge companies
  by CRIS
• One location each on Nagpur division and
  Secunderabad division identified to do test runs
• Feedback awaited

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Training All Applications

• Five training labs to be set up for all IT
  training needs

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Datacom Equipment
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Organizational setup

• Estimates of FOIS, ICMS, CMS, COA
  Web-enabled Claims Central setup - Gazetted

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Organizational setup

• Estimates of FOIS, ICMS, CMS, COA
  Web-enabled Claims Central setup (non-gazetted)

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Organizational Setup
Estimates of FOIS, ICMS, CMS, COA Web-enabled
Claims Zonal setup
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Growth of IT projects in IR

• IRs capital budget for IT is Rs. 273 crore in
  2006-07
• It is projected to increase to about Rs. 900
  crore to Rs. 1200 crore by 2010 2011
• To make this scale of operation possible,
  requirement of space and other facilities for
  CRIS and FOIS organization needs to be
  significantly increased

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Increase in strength of FOIS and space requirement

Year Approx IT budget (Rs. Crore) Approx IT budget (Rs. Crore) FOIS manpower (total) Manpower based in HQ Bare seating space (sq m) Support space Training areas, central control room etc. Total space requirement (sq m)
2006-07 2006-07 300 264 140 420 420 210 1050
2007-08 2007-08 360 317 160 480 480 240 1200
2008-09 2008-09 450 396 200 600 600 300 1500
2009-10 2009-10 540 475 240 720 720 360 1800
2010-11 2010-11 650 572 290 870 870 435 2175
2011-12 2011-12 800 704 360 1080 1080 540 2700
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CRIS location
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CRIS premises
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Required facilities for expansion
Secure areas in red
Restricted areas in orange
Open access in green
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