Coal India, CRIS ink deal on data ops

Kolkata: For faster and customised automated access to data through Freight Operations Information System (FOIS) of Indian Railways, Coal India on Monday signed an MoU with the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), a wing under the Ministry of Railways.
The new data-sharing offers CIL a bouquet of benefits that will help it in rationalising the entire coal supply matrix through rail mode. It provides precise details of loading, weighment and unloading details along with turnaround time of rakes.
Primarily, it is a handshake of freight operation information between the networks of CIL and CRIS regarding CIL’s rail movement of coal. It also includes other logistics details.
According to CIL, the information helps minimise the instances of under-loading and overloading of rakes and untangles the knots benefitting CIL, Railways and the consumers. Importantly, the resultant relevant information eases the way for faster billing and bill monitoring process replacing the manual entry of railway receipts with instantaneous online transfer.