Railway Accounts Department Examinations: CRIS – Centre for Railway Information Systems

Friday, May 26, 2023

CRIS – Centre for Railway Information Systems

IT Arm of Indian Railways
Initially established as Central Organisation for Computerization of freight operations in 1982.
CRIS was set up as Society in 1986 (an autonomous organisation)
Hqrs: New Delhi
Headed by MD – Managing Director
Regional Offices: New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Secunderabad.
Staff – 800 approx
Planning to set up a State of the art Data Centre to house the Indian Railways IT System.
Foray into International projects by entering into an MOU with a sister organization of another national Railway.
Chairman: Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways.
Members: 12 (includes CRB, FC, Member Traffic, Member, Traction, MD/CRIS)
Approximately 50 projects are on hand at CRIS

Successful projects so far

PRS – Passenger Reservation System
UTS –Unreserved Ticketing System
FOIS – Freight Operations Information System
COA – Control Office Application
CMS – Crew Management System

Projects at a Glance

Ticketing & Passenger Services

PRS – Passenger Reservation System
NGet – Next Generation e-Ticketing
UTS – Unreserved Ticketing System
NTES – National Train Enquiry System
Rates Branch System
Indian Railways Web Portal
Web enabled Claims and Refunds
PMS – Parcel Management System
Handheld Terminal Project for TTEs
PRS Data warehouse
CMS – Coaching Maintenance Management
NGeT Journey Planner

Freight and Operations

FOIS – Freight Operations Information System
ICMS – Integrated Coaching Management System
COA – Control Office Application
CMS – Crew Management System
RTIS – Realtime Train Information System
Satsang
Freight Maintenance Management
Railnet Peering Project

Resource Management

IREPS – Indian Railway E-Procurement System
AIMS – Accounting Information Management System
RPF Security Management System

Asset management

TMS – Track Management System
WISE – Workshop Information System
EEMS – Electrical Energy Management System
TDMS – Traction Distribution Management System
Automatic Wagon Identification using RFID
Geographical Information System
SMMS – Signalling Maintenance Management System
SLAM – Software for Locomotive Asset Management

Infrastructure

Locoshed Management System
Network Management System for UTN & FOIS
ICF ERP Project

Miscellaneous

Enhanced Coaching Refund System
SMS Gateway for IR
IRPSM – Indian Railways Projects Sanction & Management
ROIS – Railway Officers Information System
Reference and File Management System
RORACS – Rail-Road Crossing GAD Approval System
RESS - Railway Employee Self Service
Comprehensive Payroll Processing System
PSAMS – Private Siding Approval & Monitoring System

Final conclusion is: It is high time to ponder about the Single Software Program covering all the above activities for seamless flowing of all data across all the Departments and all the staff at one go by calling Global Tenders or the Project can be taken up by CRIS itself. (like Infosys’s Finacle Core Banking software for Major Banking organizations in the World like SBI)

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Railway Accounts Department Examinations