Recently Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has launched an e-enabled application Project Management & Information System (PMIS) at Rail Bhawan in New Delhi. PMIS will be used for proper monitoring and management of all the Railway projects throughout the country. Indian Railways have over 600 major projects of network expansion and modernization costing around 4.5 lakh crore rupees. It will contain all the information about the ongoing projects which will help in reducing the completion time of the project. The application will also help in fixing the responsibility for delay in projects and help to watch over the life cycle of any project of the railways. Currently, PMIS is being implemented in the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project.
It is a web-based application, meeting the requirements of the Personnel Department of Indian Railways, manages the career event of employees starting from induction to superannuation. The major modules include Service Record, Promotion, Transfer, Training, Court Cases, D&AR, Dak and File, Staff Grievances, Industrial Relations, Welfare, Policy etc. The project has been developed and implemented at Northern Railways Headquarters, Delhi Division, DLW/ Varanasi and is under maintenance.