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Indian Railways are the largest
rail network in Asia and the world’s second largest under one management.
Criss-crossing the country’s vast geographical spread, Indian Railways
are a multi-gauge, multi-traction system covering over 1 lakh track
kilometres,300 yards, 2300 goodsheds and 700 repair shops. Its rolling
stock fleet includes 8300 locomotives, 39,000 coaching vehicles and
3.5 lakh freight wagons. Its work force is 1.65 million and it runs
some 11,000 trains everyday, including 7,000 passenger trains. Over
the years, Railways have built up an elaborate and well established
manual information system to help them monitoring their moving assets.
Supported by a dedicated voice communications network, it collects
and transmits information from the remotest corners of the country
to control centres, at the highest level. The size and complexity
of their operations, growing traffic and changing technologies, placed
inevitably a heavy burden on this manual information system. Need
for its modernisation was therefore felt for sometime.
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