Brief Responsibilities of Directorate:
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Inspection of wagons against orders by Railway Board & private organisations
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Inspection of safety items for Indian Railways & also for private organisations having bearing on safety of train running.
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Facilitating Indian Railways by making available vendors for critical & safety items/subassemblies.
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Vendor Development for Items allotted to QA Mech.
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Quality audit of Railway Units as ordered by Railway board from time to time.
ORGANISATIONAL CHART OF QA/MECH DTE:
1.0 Achievements of QA (Mech.):
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Item
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2018-19
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2019-20
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2020-21
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2021-22
(Up to Sept’21)
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Value of Goods Inspected (in Rs Crore)
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5406
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8209
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6929
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3675.31
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Vendor Approved
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21
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24
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31
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15
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Up gradation of vendors
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15
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8
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12
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12
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Quality audit
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47
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63
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88
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38
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Super Checks
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372
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222
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124
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68
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2.0 Major Steps towards Increasing Transparency:
2.1 Unified Vendor Approval Module (U-VAM):
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A Common Web Portal U-VAM for vendor approval launched on 04.05.2021 for all vendor approving agencies like CLW, CORE, DLW, ICF, MCF, RCF & RDSO.
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Online payment, submission & scrutiny of documents, approval and automatic inclusion in Vendor Directory.
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Specification, Drawings, STRs etc for all items are uploaded and available to vendor free of cost without registration.
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All Online Status and Vendor interaction on web portal only.
2.2 Ease of RDSO Vendor Registration:
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Decontrol of RDSO items: Only 407 Main items need RDSO’s approval in 30 September 2021 (as per U-VAM) as against 676 items in Jan 2019.
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Vendor Registration Process: Completely online since Nov 2017.
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Self-Certified digitally signed documents for vendor registration application (since Jul 2020)
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Digital Inspection Certificates and Dispatch Memos: Digitization of RDSO IC and DM since 26th Feb’2020 through Inspection Module Portal on IREPS.
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IRMS Software- For apply online inspection request to RDSO by vendors.
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OCS Software- For online communication of Vendors/ZRs with RDSO.
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Online Appointment Software- For making online prior appointment by vendor with RDSO officials.
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Online Wagon Portal- For wagon inspection & generation of IC/DM. Updating/ monitoring of wagon production from different wagon builders.
2.3 Process Reforms for Increasing Vendor Base:
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Similar items grouped into sub items for easy registration:
Approved Vendors encouraged to register for remaining items of group also to enable getting limited quantity order from railways.
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Faster registration as Limited Developmental Vendor:
For specified items where vendors < 5 or < 5 Class 1 Indigenous Vendors, can develop prototype after getting limited Qty Railway order.
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To encourage “Make In India Policy”, Specifications being reviewed to remove any restrictive conditions to indigenous companies and to remove reference to international specifications, where possible.
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Incentive to vendors for registration of those items where vendors < 5:
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Reduced Vendor Registration- Reduced Vendor Registration Fee of Rs 10,000/- for MSE and Rs 50,000/- for others is charged against the items where RDSO approved vendors are <5.
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Zero Sample Testing Fees- No sample testing fee is charged from vendor for those items where vendors <= 5.
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Transparency in sample testing: Witnessing or recording critical stages of sample testing during re-testing
2.4 Vendor Outreach and participation-
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259 advertisements in prominent newspapers inviting vendors.
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65 physical Vendor meets held in Tier 2 cities and Industrial Hubs in association with CII, Assocham, FICCI and Local Industry Associations.
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60 interactive virtual vendor meets since August 2020, with wide publicity and schedule posted in RDSO website.
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Exhibitions by IR Divisions for display of items promoting vendor development.
2.5 Other Facilities for Vendor-
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Vendor Lounge: A Modern Vendor Lounge with facilities like Fax, WiFi, Computer with Printer, Tea/Coffee & Drinking Water etc all Free of Cost for Vendors has been developed at Lucknow.
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Similar Vendor Lounges have also been set up at Mumbai & Kolkata.
