Centre For Railway Information Systems - Important Indian Railways IT Projects Being Handled By CRIS

Important Indian Railways IT Projects Being Handled By CRIS

1. The computerisation of the Freight Operation Information System of Indian Railways. FOIS enables management and control of freight movement, optimisation of asset utilisation, and generation of freight invoices ("Railway Receipts"). Many of IR's important freight customers pay through the electronic payment gateway interfaced with FOIS. Approximately 60% of the freight revenue of the Railways is paid through the payment gateway.
2. Passenger Reservation System (PRS) - CONCERT. A countrywide online passenger reservation and ticketing system, developed and maintained by CRIS, is a complex online distributed client server application developed in C and Fortran programming languages on Digital OpenVMS operating system using RTR (Reliable Transaction Router) as middleware. CONCERT (COuntry-wide Network of Computerised Enhanced Reservation & Ticketing) interconnects the five regional computing systems at New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Secunderabad into a National PRS grid. It allows a passenger from any location to book train tickets from any station to any station. It handles reservations, modifications, and cancellations / refunds. It performs reservation for over 1.2 million seats and berths daily. It has complex rules, validations and fare computation techniques interwoven in the application.
3. The Internet based E-ticketing reservation system, whose front-end has been developed by IRCTC.
4. The computerisation of the Unreserved Ticketing System Unreserved Ticketing System of Indian Railways. Unreserved ticketing constitutes a major component of the IR’s overall ticketing volume and is an important source of revenue. UTS delivers fast and efficient unreserved ticketing from dedicated counters replacing manual Printed Card Tickets/EFTs/BPTs with centralised online sales accounting. The solution architecture lends itself to easy integration with handheld terminals, smart cards, automatic vending machines, etc.
5. National Train Enquiry System for latest train running timings.
6. Web Enabled Claims- The web-based software enables the general public to not only file claim cases through the web but also track the progress of their claims. All the rules and regulations for claims and accident case filing along with contact details of all claims offices are available on the website.
7. Rail Budget Compilation System (RBCS)- Developed for budgetary inputs from the different zones and production units of the Indian Railways, RBCS facilitates capturing of data, building of database, analysis of demands and pruning of the estimates for inclusion in the Railway Budget.
8. Vigilance Software System (VSS) - VSS is designed specially for the requirements of Vigilance on Indian Railways and has been implemented in all the Zonal Railway Headquarters. VSS maintains information on vigilance cases / complaints including various reports and correspondence.
9. Material Management Information System (MMIS)- This package is designed specifically for the requirements of stores accounting for P-Way materials and scrap disposal.
10. Comprehensive Accounting & Transaction System (CATS) CATS has been designed with a common database to address functionalities for personnel and Finance Departments. CATS contains two major modules: Financial Accounting System (FAS) and Payroll System (PS).
11. Workshop Information SystEm (WISE) WISE is a MIS project for the various railway workshops around the country. Currently it is in operation in 15 workshops, viz. Kharagpur, Jagadhari, Ajmer, Kota, Charbagh, Liluah, Kacharapara, Matunga, Lower Parel, Parel, Bhusawal, Secundrabad, Lallaguda, Jamalpur. WISE is currently maintained by the group Project-II and provides managerial reports to the various managements. The project utilizes the ORACLE DBMS. WISE is being upgraded to an ERP-based system.
12. Railway crew management in India The Crew Management System (CMS) is software which provides information regarding railway crew at all times. It provides information regarding the presence of crew at home station or at out station, maintains their status-wise records, and assigns crew to trains. It also maintains information regarding periodic and other rests, road learning & traction knowledge. The software system gives SMS alerts to management and supervisors in case the crew levels fall below a critical level likely to affect train operations. It is capable of booking crew on Coaching, Shunting, and Freight services in the form of Links and Rosters. The software system has tools to support the safety monitoring of the crew by nominated Inspectors, monitoring of the crew knowledge through a Quiz administered through the kiosks in the crew lobbies, and enables the crew to read the latest safety circulars.
13. Control Office Application(COA) provides a solution for the rail traffic Controllers of each Division to manage the trains running in their section. COA is running in all the Divisional Control offices in the Indian Railways. The COA application is interfaced with other applications such as the National Train Enquiry System (NTES) to provide train running information to the passengers and railway managers.
14. E-Procurement System :- http://www.ireps.gov.in 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Indian Railways E-Procurement Systems provides a secure, fair, and transparent method of procurement of material by the Railways through a web-based interface. This system enables suppliers to securely upload their tenders to a central server in encrypted form, which can then be decrypted only by authorised officials of the Railways after the date and time of tender opening. All time stamps are authenticated by the National Physical Laboratory. The system is in operation in all Zonal Railways and units of IR. E-Procurement Tendering Modules has been implemented in All Indian Railways Zones and Production Units, Apart from this service has been extended to CORE, RDSO, RailTel, Kolkatta Metro. E-Auction is launched in March 2012 and till date it has been adopted by 12 Zonal Railways which will be rolled out to All Indian Railways very soon. Payment Gateway has also been implemented and running successfully Since Jan 2012 with some of New feature implemented first time with any E-commerce Web Application in India like Lien Feature.

1. SLAM - Software for Locomotive Asset Management is a software system under development at CRIS which shall cater for Electric Locomotive Asset Management on Indian Railways.
2. Asset Management systems such Locomotive Management System for Diesel locomotives, Freight Maintenance Management System for wagons (freight railcars), Coaching Maintenance Management System (CMM), and Track Management System are under development and implementation at pilot sites. In addition, an ERP system is being implemented in the Integral Coach Factory, Chennai.
3. Automatic Fare Collection & Passenger Control system for Metro Railway, Kolkata.