The Union Railway Minister Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has informed
that the Railways intends to set up a working group to modify the
present system of accounting, to ensure tracking of expenditure to
desired outcomes. Introducing the Railway Budget for 2015-16 in
Parliament today he said that Railways have limited resources and thus
must ensure that all public expenditure results in an optimal outcome.
The data on costing would be available online including costs incurred
on constructing, augmenting, maintaining and operating railway lines.
This would also help in undertaking post commissioning evaluation
studies.
He informed the members that Railways proposes to have the train
operations audited with a view to increasing productivity and bringing
in transparency.
Railways is also proposing to expand paperless working in our material
management system. In line with focus on ease of doing business, it will
digitally integrate our vendors through Vendor Interface Management
System to provide single window interface to vendors.