Railway Minister Unveils “Indian Railways Construction Manual-2023”

The Minister also appreciated the work done by R. N. Sunkar, former Member/Infrastructure), Railway Board and his entire team in preparing this manual. Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering (IRICEN) Pune and the team of construction officers of different Zonal Railways have prepared this manual

New Delhi: The Union Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronic & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw on January 10, 2024 unveiled the “The Indian Railways Construction Manual, 2023” (#IRCM) in New Delhi. Addressing the gathering after launching the #manual, the Minister for Railways, #AshwiniVaishnaw said, “The #construction manual will help in many activities including #Land acquisition, #forest clearance, #bridge design, #contract management, #tunnel construction, road #flyover/ under bridges. This manual would help us to achieve to become the world’s fastest growing rail network.”

Shri Vaishnaw further said, “It is a real pleasure that the #Construction-manual is now in a new form and in tune with our time. Since #PrimeMinister, Narendra Modi has taken charge, #Railway has been his focus including #Construction of new tracks and stations, and in this mission, this #manual will play a key role as the previous #version of the manual was old (around 1960) and now new #reforms have been incorporated including #EPC contracts, #bridge construction, execution of #signalling, #electrical and non-interlocking works etc. which have now been standardized through the new manual”.

The #Minister also appreciated the work done by Roop Narayan Sunkar, former #Member (Infrastructure), #RailwayBoard and his entire team in preparing this manual. Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering (#IRICEN) Pune and the team of construction officers of different Zonal Railways have prepared this manual. This manual is an important milestone in the efforts of #IndianRailways to equip the construction officials with the required knowledge for #execution of construction projects at a faster pace.

As per the #NationalRailPlan, #IndianRailways has to develop #capacity by year 2030 that will cater to the growing demand up to year 2050. To achieve this, Indian Railways has to increase its pace of building its #infrastructure i.e. commissioning of super critical and critical projects, construction of new lines; completion of gauge conversion, multi tracking, automatic signalling and traffic facility works etc.

To guide #Construction officials, a need was therefore felt to have a manual covering various aspects of construction. The manual has been prepared in the simple #language which can be understood easily by field officials.

North Central Railway (#NCR) officer #MSHashmi #CPM/Construction/Prayagraj has made special contribution in the writing of Chapter-15 of the Manual. He Contributed to Chapters on Reinforced Cement Concrete (#RCC) and #GradeSeparators of “Indian Railways Construction Manual” in association with Professor #AvinashKumar of Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineers, Pune.