{"id":11781,"date":"2019-11-21T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:01:46","slug":"mission-raftaar-of-indian-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mission-raftaar-of-indian-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Raftaar of Indian Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Minister of Railways has informed the Lok Sabha about the Mission Raftaar.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Mission Raftaar:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mission Raftaar of Indian Railways was announced in the Railway Budget 2016-17.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>The mission envisages a target of doubling of average speed of freight trains and increasing the average speed of all non-suburban passenger trains by 25 kmph in the next 5 years.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance of the mission:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The mission has helped the trains to reduce travel time for passengers, transit time for cargo, reduce operational cost, improve revenues and railway\u2019s market share.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other missions of Indian Railways:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mission 25 Tonne:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It aims to increase revenue of Railways by augmenting the carrying capacity.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mission Zero Accident:<\/strong> It comprises of two sub missions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Elimination of unmanned level crossings:<\/strong> The goal is to eliminate all unmanned level crossings on Broad Gauge in the next 3-4 years through innovative financing mechanisms.It will reduce deaths due to accidents and improve throughput of the network<\/li><li><strong>TCAS (Train Collision Avoidance System)<\/strong>: An indigenous technology has been developed to equip 100% of the High Density Network with TCAS in the next 3 years.This will prevent head on collisions and improve throughput by increasing average sectional speeds.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mission PACE (Procurement and Consumption Efficiency)<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This mission aims to improve our procurement and consumption practices to improve the quality of goods and services.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It will introduce a culture of optimum usage by adopting practices such as Vendor Managed Inventory, new procedures for identification and disposal of scrap among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mission Hundred:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This mission will commission at least a hundred sidings in the next 2 years.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The current siding\/ PFT policy would be revised to elicit greater private participation. An online portal will be operated for accepting and processing all new applications, alongwith decentralization of powers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mission beyond book-keeping:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The mission will establish an accounting system where outcomes can be tracked to inputs.&nbsp;<\/li><li>This will transform IR as right accounting would determine right costing and hence right pricing and right outcomes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mission Capacity Utilisation:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The mission 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.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Minister of Railways has informed the Lok Sabha about the Mission Raftaar. Facts: About Mission Raftaar: Mission Raftaar of Indian Railways was announced in the Railway Budget 2016-17.&nbsp;&nbsp; The mission envisages a target of doubling of average speed of freight trains and increasing the average speed of all non-suburban passenger trains by 25 kmph in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mission-raftaar-of-indian-railways\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission Raftaar of Indian Railways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7551,953],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-mission-raftaar","tag-railways","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}