Avataran:

Avataran is an umbrella program consists of 7 missions such as,

• Mission 25 Tonne – It aims to increase revenue by augmenting carrying capacity.

• Mission Zero Accident – It comprises of two sub missions such as Elimination of unmanned level crossings on broad Gauge in the next 3-4 years and Equipping 100% of the High Density Network with Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS).

• Mission PACE (Procurement and Consumption Efficiency) – It aims to improve procurement and consumption practices to improve the quality of goods and services.

• Mission Raftaar – It targets doubling of average speeds of freights trains and increasing the average speed of superfast mail/express trains by 25 kmph in the next 5 years. It will complement Mission 25 Tonne to increase throughput of the railway system.

• Mission Hundred – Under this mission, at least a hundred sidings will be commissioned in the next 2 years. Siding refers to low-speed track section / track branch distinct from a running line.

• Mission beyond book-keeping – It will establish an accounting system where outcomes can be tracked to

• Mission Capacity Utilization – It proposes to prepare a blueprint for making full use of the huge new capacity that will be created through two Dedicated Freight Corridors between Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi- Kolkata scheduled to be commissioned by 2019.

VIKALP:

• The Alternate Train Accommodation Scheme (VIKALP) scheme aims to facilitate waitlisted passengers to get an alternative train accommodation within 12 hours of the original train.

• The waitlisted passengers will get confirmed accommodation in next alternative train if they opt for it while booking.

• No extra charges will be paid by the passenger to avail this scheme.

Rail Safety Fund:

• The new rail safety fund called âRashtriya Rail SanrakshaKoshâ to be utilized for track improvement, bridge rehabilitation work, improved inspection work etc.

• It is a non-lapsable fund created by Ministry of Finance, since the union and railway budgets will be merged for the first time.

• It receives fund from this year budget allocation and also from the Central Road Fund.

• The Central Road Fund is collected by levying Cess on diesel and petrol for safety-related work.

• The Rail Safety Fund was setup based on the recommendation of a committee headed by Anil Kakodkar, former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Chairman.

Nivaran:

• It is the grievance redressal portal launched by the Ministry of Railways.

• It is the first IT application to be launched on the Rail Cloud.

• It is a platform for resolution of service related grievances of serving and former railway employees.

Initiatives by Ministry of Railways:

• SRESTHA – New R&D organization to serve the future technology needs of Railways.

• SUTRA – A special unit for Transportation Research and Analytics.

• The team will be involved in World class data analytics, simulation softwares, and network optimization and decision support systems.

• “Sampark, samanvay and Samvad” is a conclave organized by the Ministry of Railways to discuss and deliberate âVision for New Railway – New India 2022â.

• The conclave is aimed at breaking the boundary put up by railway organization in sharing information (sampark), improves co-ordination (samanvay), find solutions (samvad) to the critical issues facing Indian Railways.

• It encouraged all officers to give inputs and bring out the ground realities and potential impediments to implementation of new policies and reforms.

Project Saksham:

• It is a comprehensive training programme launched by Indian Railways.

• It is an up skilling exercise to upgrade skill and knowledge will be held for all employees of Indian Railways.

• Under this plan, all employees in each zone will be put through a week‘s training in skills and knowledge relevant to

their work area over next one year.

• The training, as per the calendar, will be completed within 9 months

Mission Satyanishtha:

• Indian Railways has launched the mission Satyanishtha.

• It aims at sensitizing all railway employees about the need to adhere to good ethics and to maintain high standards

of integrity at work.

• It is the first ever such mission by any government organisation.

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