Bangladesh Railways
Prepared For: Sheikh Morshed Jahan Associate Professor Course Instructor Business Strategy
Prepared by: Reza Ahmed Ridwan ZR 04 Rifat Hasan ZR 13 Reaz Uddin Ahmed ZR 19 Nabeel Khan ZR 29 Mrinmoya Kanti Das ZR 35
Bangladesh Railway (reporting mark BR), is the state-owned rail transport agency of Bangladesh. It operates and maintains the entire railway network of the country. BR is controlled by the Directorate General of Bangladesh Railway under the Ministry of Railways along with Bangladesh Railway Authority (BRA) and which works for policy guidance of BR. Bangladesh Railway covers a length of 2,855 route kilometers and employs 34,168 people. BR operates international, inter-city and suburban rail systems on its multi-gauge network. It also owns coach production facilities.
Organizational structure :
Post independence, the railway was first supervised by a Railway Board which was abolished in 1982. Thereafter, the BR came under the jurisdiction of the Railway Division of the Ministry of Communications with the Secretary of the Division working as the Director General of BR. In 1995, instead of being the part of the Ministry, BR came under control of a professional Director General supervised by the Bangladesh Railway Authority that is chaired by the Minister of Communications. BR is divided into two zones, East & West, each under control of a general manager who is accountable to the Director General of Bangladesh Railway. The two zones have their separate departments for operation, maintenance, and finances. Each zone is divided into two divisions that contain departments for Personnel, Transportation, Commercial, Finance Mechanical, Way and Works Signaling & Telecommunication, Electrical, Medical, etc. Each zone also has its Workshop Divisions, located at Pahartali and Saidpur respectively. A locomotive workshop is located at Parbatipur for broad and metre gauge locomotives. BR manages its own Railway Training Academy. A separate Directorate under the Ministry of Communications is charged to inspect different works of BR in relation to safety.
Bangladesh Railway provides various types of services ranging from shuttle service for university students to freight and cargo service. But still BR could not make profit as it is providing services to the nation at a subsidized rate in order to help the country's economy and for the ease of people.
Vision: To provide safe, reliable, cost effective and time efficient rail transport service in the country through modernizing, expanding & maintaining rail system in a manner which supports government strategies for economic, social & environmental development.
Mission:
1.Develop & maintain railway tracks & station infrastructures throughout the country. 2. Maintain & upgrade locomotives, coaches & other rolling stocks. 3. Maintain & modernize signaling & interlocking system & Telecon system of Bangladesh Railway. 4. Ensure safe, speedy & efficient train operation. 5. Implement Government transport policy in rail sector. 6. Procure modern technology related rolling stocks, track materials & signaling systems suitable for Bangladesh Railway. 7. Manage land asset of Bangladesh Railway. 8. Ensure optimum utilization of Development Budget & Revenue Budget of Bangladesh Railway.
Organogram of BR :
Passenger service
Bangladesh Railway is one of the principal modes of transportation in the country. During 2004-2005, about 42 million passengers were transported by Bangladesh Railway. Bangladesh Railway introduced Intercity Train services in 1985. At present there are 54 Intercity Trains running. Around 38.5% of the total passengers of Bangladesh Railway are being carried by the Intercity trains which contribute approximately 73.3% of the total earnings of passenger traffic.
Accommodation classes
Bangladesh Railway features mainly three classes of Travel. Air Conditioned Class, First Class and Second Class are available in BR. Third Class was withdrawn with effect from August 1, 1989. Most of the trains have the First Class and Second Class only. Second Class is divided into Shovon Chair, Shovon, and Shulov sub-classes. In some trains a separate mail compartment is present. In Inter-City and long-distance trains, a pantry car and a power car is included in the center. All Inter-City trains are partially airconditioned, feature padded leather seats and berths and provide passengers with on-demand sheets, pillows, blankets, as well as meals and refreshments.
bogie container flats were procured from China and another 100 bogie container flats were procured from India. An Inland Container Depot has been opened at Dhaka with custom and port facilities for clearance of container traffic. Exclusive container train was introduced on 5 August 1991. Since then, volume of container traffic gained momentum.
Locomotives
Diesel: Bangladesh Railway's fleet of diesel locomotives includes both diesel-electric and dieselhydraulic machines.[12] Fleet at 30 June 2005. Steam: A small number of steam locomotives is preserved in Bangladesh.
Timeline:
2006: $430m plan to upgrade railways in Bangladesh 2007: Sonadia, an island 7 km west of Cox's Bazaar seems likely to be chosen as a deep water port 2009: Canarail to advise on duplication Laksam to Chinki Astana of Dhaka to Chittagong line 2010: Funding awarded for a bridge over Titas River.[20] Also, in September 2010, the government of Bangladesh approved 10 rail development projects worth a total of 199bn taka; these include plans for new tracks and new rolling stock. 2011: A link across several rivers to Cox's Bazaar has been started, with completion by 2013. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina officially launched construction the link. The 100 kilometer gauge line will start from the current railhead at Dohazari, southeast of Chittagong, and run to Satkania, Dulahazra, Chakarin, Edgaon, Ramu and Cox's Bazar, with four major river bridges. A 28 kilometre branch will run from Ramu to Gundum.
Bangladesh Railway:
Objectives of the study:
1. Finding out the current scenario
Rationale: Finding out the current scenario is the 1st step towards understanding the company. So, well look into the current practices, malpractices, functions of different divisions of the company and other related fields to get a clear picture of Bangladesh Railway.
2. Finding out the causes of loss and poor performance:
Rationale: Focusing on the constant poor performance of railway over the years and trying to find out the causes behind it and why the causes are so deep rooted that they cant be fixed.
3. Devising a plan to improve the image of Railway
Rationale: To cater more passengers and to be a 1st class service, it needs to improve its brand image. Well try to come up with a branding strategy to position railway as a 1 st class passenger carrier across the country and beyond.
4. Devising a plan to improve the financial condition of Railway
Rationale: Although it is a public organization it should at least improve the SROI and then focus on improving the ROI. Well also try to provide with solutions as to how the financial condition.
5. Devising a holistic strategy to make Bangladesh Railway a successful organization
Rationale: Since railway carries the most number of passengers every year and its performance is very crucial, well be trying to find out the proper strategy that fits Bangladesh Railway and make it a better organization both financially and objective wise.
Methodology:
Well be doing our study based on both primary and secondary data. For primary data, well conduct some interviews with railway officials, govt. employees, passengers and experts. For secondary data well look for recent research papers on railway plus newspaper articles, online journals and so on.
Scope:
There will be availability of data regarding the current situation of the service. We can talk and find out about the poor quality services that it provides. We can also find out the reasons behind this. But the scope will be limited in terms of recent financial performance. Also the govt. officials might give us overstated information about the performance of railway. But we believe there are lots to be studied and done to improve the condition of Bangladesh Railway.