Zones and divisions of Indian Railways

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The Indian Railways is divided into zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of 69 divisions.[1]

Each of the divisions, is headed by a Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) who reports to the General Manager (GM) of the zone. A DRM can be appointed from any services of Indian Railway, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian Revenue Service (IRS) for the tenure of 3 years but it can be exceeded on the recommendation of Railway Board. Divisional officers heading all departments viz. engineering, mechanical, electrical, signal and telecommunication, accounts, personnel, operating, commercial, safety, medical, security branches report to the Divisional Railway Manager. The DRM is assisted by one or two Additional Divisional Railway Managers (ADRM) in the working of the division.

Indian Railway Zones

List of zones and its divisions

There are 16 zones and the 68 divisions are listed below:[2]

Sl. No Name of the Railway zone Abbr. Route length
(in Km)
Zone Headquarters Railway Divisions
1. Northern Railway NR 6968 Delhi Delhi,[3] Ambala,[4] Firozpur,[5] Lucknow NR,[6] Moradabad[7]
2. North Eastern Railway NER 3667 Gorakhpur Izzatnagar,[8] Lucknow NER,[9] Varanasi[10]
3. Northeast Frontier Railway NFR 3907 Guwahati Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangiya, Lumding, Tinsukia[11]
4. Eastern Railway ER 2414 Kolkata Howrah,[12] Sealdah,[13] Asansol,[14] Malda [15]
5. South Eastern Railway SER 2631 Kolkata Adra,[16] Chakradharpur,[17] Kharagpur,[18] Ranchi[19]
6. South Central Railway SCR 5803 Secunderabad Secunderabad,[20] Vijayawada,[21] Hyderabad,[22] Guntakal,[23] Guntur,[24] Nanded[25]
7. Southern Railway SR 5098 Chennai Chennai,[26] Tiruchirappalli,[27] Madurai,[28] Palakkad,[29] Salem,[30] Thiruvananthapuram[31]
8. Central Railway CR 3905 Mumbai Mumbai,[32] Bhusawal,[33] Pune,[34] Solapur,[35] Nagpur[36]
9. Western Railway WR 6182 Mumbai Mumbai WR,[37] Ratlam,[38] Ahmedabad, Rajkot,[39] Bhavnagar,[40] Vadodara[41]
10. South Western Railway SWR 3177 Hubballi Hubballi,[42] Bengaluru,[43] Mysuru,[44]
11. North Western Railway NWR 5459 Jaipur Jaipur,[45] Ajmer,[46] Bikaner,[47] Jodhpur [48]
12. West Central Railway WCR 2965 Jabalpur Jabalpur,[49] Bhopal,[50] Kota[51]
13. North Central Railway NCR 3151 Allahabad Allahabad,[52] Agra,[53] Jhansi [54]
14. South East Central Railway SECR 2447 Bilaspur Bilaspur,[55] Raipur,[56] Nagpur SEC[57]
15. East Coast Railway ECoR 2572 Bhubaneswar Khurda Road,[58] Sambalpur,[59] Waltair[60]
16. East Central Railway ECR 3628 Hajipur Danapur,[61] Dhanbad,[62] Mughalsarai,[63] Samastipur,[64] Sonpur[65]

Organisation

A typical division has an average track length of about 1000 km and staff strength of about 15000. All the departments and services of the Indian Railways are represented in a Division.[66][67][68][69]

Sl. No Name of Department Headed by Abbre. Role and function
1. Engineering Department Senior Divisional Engineer Sr.DEN Maintenance of all fixed assets of the Division, i.e. Track, Bridges, Buildings, Roads, Water supply etc.
2. Mechanical Engineering & Power (Transportation) Department Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer Sr.DME Maintenance of all rolling stock of the@ Division (except electric locos and EMU/MEMUs), i.e. locomotives, passenger and freight cars; and technical super etc.
3. Electrical Engineering Department Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer Sr.DEE Maintenance of all electric locomotives, EMUs/MEMUs and fixed electrical assets of the Division, i.e. Overhead equipment, lighting and power for railway establishments etc.
4. Signal & Telecommunication Engineering Department Senior Divisional Signal & Telecommunication Engineer Sr.DSTE Management of the Signalling and Telecommunication (S&T) infrastructure of the division for Safe Train operations;
5. Operating and Traffic (Transportation) Department Senior Divisional Operations Manager Sr.DOM Train operations
6. Commercial Department Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Sr.DCM Passenger ticketing, ticket checking, booking of freight rakes and collecting fares
7. Medical Department Chief Medical Superintendent CMS Providing medical facilities to railway employees and their families
8. Safety Department Senior Divisional Safety Officer Sr.DSO Ensuring safety of train operations
9. Stores Department Senior Divisional Controller of Stores Sr. DCOS Ensuring material for maintenance of trains (material for all departments except the Engineering Department)
10. Accounts Department Senior Divisional Accounts Officer Sr. DAO Financial management of the division
11. Personnel Department Senior Divisional Personnel Officer Sr. DPO HR functions
12. Security Department Senior Divisional Security Commissioner Sr. DSC Security of railway material, passenger and passenger belongings

Control Room

Every division has a Control Room for train operations, from where all the trains in the division are controlled and monitored.

Accident Relief Trains

Every division has Accident Relief Trains (ARTs), Accident Relief Medical Vans (ARMVs) and Breakdown Cranes for assisting in disaster management. These are under the supervision of the SrDME of the Division, who is also the head of Disaster Management of the Division.

Locomotive Sheds

The Diesel Locomotive Sheds and Electric Locomotive Sheds on the division maintain diesel and electric locomotives respectively. Their administrative control is with the DRM.

Coaching Depots and Sick Lines

Every division has some coaching depots to maintain its passenger cars and sick lines to maintain freight cars which are found unfit at the freight examination points.

See also

References

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