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Indian Railways is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India that operates India's national railway system. As of 2023 [update] , it manages the fourth largest national railway system by size with a track length of 132,310 km (82,210 mi), running track length of 106,493 km (66,172 mi) and route ...
The Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO) is the research and development and railway technical specification development organisation under the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India, which functions as a technical adviser and consultant to the Railway Board, the Zonal Railways, the Railway Production Units, RITES, RailTel and Ircon International in respect of design and ...
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is an Indian public sector undertaking that provides ticketing, catering, and tourism services for the state-owned Indian Railways. It was established in 1999 by the Government of India and operated under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways .
CRIS designs, develops, implements and maintains information systems for Indian Railways. It has also developed and implemented the IT system for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ship-ticketing, which it currently maintains as well. The number of projects handled by CRIS increased from three in 2000, to more than 80 by 2020.
Northern and North Western Railway: 1875 305 km (190 mi) 110 km/h (68 mph) Yes [12] Delhi–Moradabad † Northern Railway: 1900 167 km (104 mi) 110 km/h (68 mph) 2019 [13] Haryana Orbital ‡ Northern Railway: 2026 121.7 km (75.6 mi) 160 km/h (99 mph) Under construction [14] Jaipur–Ahmedabad † North Western and Western Railway: 1881
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge rack railway in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu was opened in 1908 and is the only operational rack railway in India. [ 179 ] [ 178 ] These railways operate with its own dedicated fleet of locomotives and coaches.
In 2019, based on the 'Bibek Debroy committee' report of 2015, the Cabinet of India approved the plan to merge eight railway services. In 2022, the government released a gazette notification about the merger of existing eight services, which fall under the Central Civil Services, into a new Indian Railways Management Service (IRMS).
As decided by government of India at the end of 2019 all Railway services are to be merged into one service called Indian Railway Management Service. Moreover, Railway Board has been reconstituted with chairman and CEO as head and Member Finance, Member Transportation and Business Development, Member Infrastructure and Member Rolling Stock and ...