Railway Sector Improvement Project

Using country systems for MIS. The initial scope of the project considered the PPMS as part of the MIS. Indian Railways has established the CRIS, which develops and manages all MIS for the Indian Railways. Indian Railways is a network under one administration and has an impact on the socioeconomic parameters of the country as a whole. The subprojects selected under this loan, though critical, constitute a very minuscule portion of the entire Indian Railways network. Hence, their impact on the overall socioeconomic parameters of the country as its proportionate contribution in the overall impact by Indian Railways would be negligible. Therefore, the MIS and the accompanying PPMS were dropped with the mutual agreement of the MOR and ADB. The information required for the purpose of writing of this report were collected from CRIS and MOR. There is also a need for ADB to make a better follow-up of the compliance with submission of the audited project financial statements as mandated in the project implementation agreement.