Creation of Mobility Directorate in Railway Board’s Office

Question: Recently the Ministry of Railways has decided to constitute a new Directorate named as Mobility Directorate in Railway Board’s Office. This will be headed by-
(a) Railway Minister
(b) Secretary, Ministry of Railways
(c) Chairman, Railway Board
(d) Member (Personnel), Railway Board
Ans: (c)
Related facts:

• On 12 May 2016 Ministry of Railways has decided to constitute a new Directorate named as Mobility Directorate in Railway Board’s Office, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.
• This new Directorate will work directly under the supervision of Chairman, Railway Board.
• The Directorate would be headed by HAG level officer of Traffic Department viz. Adviser/Mobility
• Broad items of work to be handled by Mobility Directorate would be as under:
• Identification & prioritization of train corridors for raising speed;
• Identification of path for timetabled freight trains;
• Timetabling issues pertaining to speed of coaching;
• De-bottleneck of the particular stretch of the network;
• Monitoring progress of capacity augmentation works required to increase speeds;
• Asset failures affecting mobility and corrective action;
• Rightpowring;
• Condition of rolling stock and speed potential;
• Permissible speed on track structure;
• Permanent and Temporary speed restrictions;
• Other low coast initiatives like IBH and IBS if required;
• Replacement of Locos hauled trains by DEMU/MEMU; and
• Any other items/subjects assigned by Board.
• Ministry of Railway also constituted a new Directorate named as Non-Fare Revenue Directorate (NFR) in Railway Board’s Office, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145291
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=145290
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/secretary_branches/Off_Order_2016/MX_O_O_15_31032016.pdf