Minutes of the meeting to review and optimize crew beats of 5 Zonal Railways as per RBE-105/2022

Minutes of the meeting held at Railway Board on 18th & 19th April, 24 to review and optimize crew beats of 5 Zonal Railways as per RBE-105/2022

BHARAT SARKAR/GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
RAIL MANTRALAYA/MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. 2023/TT-1/76/Staff/11

New Delhi, dated 10.06.2024

General Manager,
All Zonal Railways.

Sub: Minutes of the meeting held at Railway Board on 18th & 19th April, 24 to review and optimize crew beats of 5 Zonal Railways as per RBE-105/2022.

Please find enclosed herewith Minutes of the meeting held at Railway Board on 18th & 19th April, 24 to review and optimize crew beats of 5 Zonal Railways as per RBE-105/2022, for information and necessary action.

DA: As above

(J.S. Sehrawat)
Dy. Director Traffic Transportation (1)
Railway Board
011-23047491
j-sehrawat[at]gov.in

MINUTES OF THE MEETING HELD AT RAILWAY BOARD ON 18th & 19th APR’24 TO REVIEW AND OPTIMIZE CREW BEATS OF 5 ZONAL RAILWAYS AS PER RBE-105/2022.

A meeting with CFTM’s of 5 zonal railways (ECoR, SER. SECR, WCR & CR) on the subject of “Review and Optimization of crew beats as per RBE 1105/2022 and review of coal pilots’ was held in Railway Board on 18th & 19th April. 2024. The meeting was chaired by AM/Traffic and attended by following officers:

1) ED/TT/F
2) ED/TT/S
3) GM/CRIS
4) GM/FOIS
5) JD/TT/POL
6) CFTM’S (ECoR,. SER. SECR. WCR & CR)

The meeting was called in the background of the following issues:

(i) In recent months 51 new lobbies and 24 sister lobbies were opened across Indian Railways. This has increased the requirement of running staff on stationary duties for administrative purposes.

(ii) Indian Railways runs huge number of special, holiday, festival trains etc. almost through out the year. This requires the use of goods crew for running of special trains.

(iii) Zonal Railways have reported time & again regarding detention/stabling of trains on account of non availability of crew.

To optimize crew utilization and ensuring smooth mobility across IR network, All Zonal Railways to undertake the following measures:

• FOIS-CMS integration has been done. Zonal Railways to order freight trains through FOIS. It should be ensured that TA’s for proper loads are given through FOIS.
• Lobbies which have less than 50 TA generations in 24 hrs should be managed through ASM on duty. The CMS- KIOSK should be provided in ASM office.
• Zonal Railways to have clerk less lobbies. It should be ensured that no running staff is deployed for stationary work after FOIS CMS integration.
• Instructions have been given to CRIS for initiating PVRS based crew booking system in which the crew can accept his booking through an automated telephony system.
• Zonal Railways to review the percentage of its TAP working of running staff Efforts should be made to have crew headquarters or running room al such places to reduce the idle hours of crew. It will help reducing long hour cases of crew and in reducing Ineffective duty hours.
• For crew booking. SMS based confirmation system which is available in CMS should be used and the staff engaged in such activities should be removed.
• Zonal Railways should ensure avoiding any one side working of crew in both passenger and freight operations to improve crew utilization.
• Small Running rooms should be managed by station staff and opened only after personal approval of PCOM. The deployment of running staff for stationary duty on management of such small running rooms should be totally avoided.
• All zonal railways to review and adjust/extend crew beats across small running rooms (less than 40 bed).

ECoR. SER. SECR. WCR & CR were advised to ensure regular and smooth availability of crew. To optimize the current running beats of crew and ensuring smooth & fluid train operations the following decisions were taken:

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