7 missions under Avataran
Q. Which of the following is not a mission under Avataran of IR?
1) Mission 50 Tonne
2) Mission PACE
3) Mission Zero Accident
4) Mission Efficiency- Published on 01 Mar 16a. 1
b. 1 and 3
c. 2 and 3
d. 1 and 4
ANSWER: 2 and 3
- Missions will be headed by a Mission Director reporting directly to the Chairman, Railway Board and heading a cross functional team empowered to take all relevant decisions for a timely targeted delivery.
- Mission 25 Tonne for 25 tonne axle load, Mission Zero Accident for safety, Mission PACE (Procurement and Consumption Efficiency), Mission Raftaar for higher speeds, Mission Hundred for commissioning 100 sidings/ freight terminals, Mission beyond book-keeping for accounting reforms, Mission Capacity Utilisation to prepare a blueprint for making use of the capacity created once DFC is commissioned.
- Mission Hundred: 85% of traffic on IR originates from private sidings and freight terminals. There are more than 400 proposals under various stages of approvals. In the next 2 years IR will commission at least a hundred sidings. The current siding/ PFT policy would be revised to elicit greater private participation and an online portal will be operated for accepting and processing all new applications, along with decentralization of powers.
- Mission beyond book-keeping: Being a Government undertaking, IR does not follow practices in accounting which aid detailed assessment of unit costs. Though IR are moving from single entry to double entry systems and from cash based to completely accrual based accounting, they are not great reforms. As a thriving commercial entity, IR needs to go a step further and establish an accounting system where outcomes can be tracked to inputs. This is a structural change which forms the bedrock of transformation, as right accounting would determine right costing and hence right pricing and right outcomes. They intend taking up its implementation over Railways in a mission mode and complete the entire roll out in next few years.
- Mission Capacity Utilisation: The two Dedicated Freight Corridors are scheduled to be commissioned by 2019. These would create huge capacity for carrying freight traffic between Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata. Shifting of goods trains from existing tracks to the new corridors would also release a great deal of capacity which would help upscale the nature of passenger services on these trunk routes. It is proposed to prepare a blueprint for making full use of this huge new capacity no sooner than it is commissioned.
