Organization
The department is organized in three tiers. The top tier is at the Railway Board level, the second tier at the Zonal Railway level and the third tier at the divisional or the district level.
At the apex level, this department is headed by Member Mechanical who represents the department at the Railway Board level.
Additional Member, Railway stores is the functional head of the department at the Railway Board level.Stores Directorate functions under him. He is intern is assisted by various Executive Directors and Directors. At the zonal levels, the principal head of the department is COS( Controller of Stores). The COS is assisted by 2 to 3 CMM's( Chief Materials Managers). Theses CMM's in turn have various Dy.CMM (Dy. Chief Materials Managers). They in turn are assisted by the SMM's( Senior Materials Manager) & the AMM's( Assistant Materials Managers) .Also the Stores department manages warehouses which feed to the Repair Workshops and Maintenance Sheds. There are about 200 such warehouses. The Warehouse are called as Depots headed by Depot Officer . Depots attached to Workshops are headed by Dy.CMM and Electric and Diesel Loco Sheds headed by SMM. These depots directly reports to COS . Division is headed by Sr.DMM.who reports to Divisional Railway Manager(DRM). Sr.DMM is responsible for material management at divisional level by catering needs to others branches of divisions. They are responsible for coordination of scrap arising out of division in closed association with Engineering Department. Sr.DMM also do uniform management for various grades of running staff such as guards, TTE, Station Masters.
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