Vivek Express - জেগে ওঠো, সচেতন হও এবং লক্ষ্যে না পৌঁছানো পর্যন্ত থেমো না - Dip

What is IR?? IR is not just a rolling stock company but:
(1) it is a train operator as it operates above 10000 freight & passenger trains on daily basis. Freight trains vide variety include bulk, container, parcel van, RORO. Passenger trains too include wide variety like Long distance intercity train, short distance intercity trains, Suburban trains/ Metro trains etc
(2) it owns and maintains huge railway infrastructure of all sorts like track, bridges, tunnels, electrification, signalling, railway stations, offices-building and equipments like air-conditioning computer s and intranet(s) etc.
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It is a rolling stock manufacturer which manufacture a wide variety of products in large quantities like:
* Locos-Electrical/ Diesel- of different types & capacities/ guages at different locations,
* Coaches of different types/gauges, Wagons of different types for carrying different commodities/goods of different gauges and at different locations,
* maintenance vehicles for electrification/ track-inspection etc.
(4) It is a rolling stock maintenance company as it has an array of workshops which maintain the large number of rolling stocks of all kinds owned and operated by IR.
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* Since majority of revenue comes from train operation, it is mainly a train operator. So it is often advised by experts that the rolling stock units should be corporatized & separated from IR as their management need an approach much different than train operation.
* If these units are corporatized, they they can think beyond IR and develop new products for export market and become independent profit centres.