Railway to create Directorate of Mobility and Non-Fare Revenue in Railway Board’s Office

New Delhi May 12 (KNN) In line with the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu’s budget speech for creation of cross functional Directorates to focus on areas like speed enhancement, motive power depicting Mission Raftaar, Ministry of Railways has decided to constitute a new Directorate named as Mobility Directorate in Railway Board’s Office, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

The Directorate would be headed by HAG level officer of Traffic Department viz. Adviser/Mobility and assisted by Executive Director/Director rank officers of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and S&T Departments posted exclusively in this Directorate.

Broad items of work to be handled by Mobility Directorate would be like replacement of Locos hauled trains by DEMU/MEMU.

Apart from this, on more compliance from the Railway Minister’s speech to reorganize Railway Board along business lines and setting up cross functional Directorates in Railway Board to focus on areas for enhancing revenues by 10% to 20% from Non-Tariff sources Ministry of Railways has decided to constitute a new Directorate named as Non-Fare Revenue Directorate (NFR) in Railway Board’s Office, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi. 

The Directorate would be manned by SAG/SG level officers posted exclusively in the Directorate from Engineering, Traffic Commercial and Finance Departments. 

In this phase, advertisement work would be taken place in the Railway properties to generate the revenue like Advertisements on wagons, FOBs, ROBs, RUBs, Railway buildings, Loco sheds, Production Units, Structures on railway premises (like water tanks, microwave towers, OHE masts etc). (KNN Bureau)