South Central Railway conducts training programme on e-DAS

Secunderabad: South Central Railway hosted a training programme on e-DAS (Drawing Approval System for Engineering Department Officials of eight Zonal Railways on Thursday and Friday at Rail Nilayam here.

e-DAS is the first of its kind of digital initiative for drawings approval mechanism towards paperless working and speedy approvals. On first day on the inaugural session Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, SCR was the chief guest. Mallya said that e-DAS is one of the series of products adopted and brought by SCR on e-platforms for pan-India level such as e-office, UMID, KAIZALA etc. e-DAS will ease the process of getting approvals for drawings. He complimented K Siva Prasad, Principal Chief Engineer and his team along with. Capricot and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) for developing the application in a short span of time. e-DAS has been the vision of Chairman Railway Board for pan-India implementation, he added.

Siva Prasad said e-DAS has been developed by SCR, which is the first of its kind in Indian Railways and the concept of electronic platform for online approval of drawings. This would be implemented on pan-India level, he added, saying it would speed up the tendering process.

This system centralises the data in a central location and provides highest level of security by storing the drawings in a secure location on the server thereby eliminating the conventional method of storing the data in local hard drives. This system also ensures backup and restoration of the files which eliminates the risk of data loss.

A technical booklet on e-DAS was released by the General Manager. John Thomas, Additional General Manager, Vijay Agarwal, Chief Administrative Officer (Construction), SCR officials and Delegates from Northern Railway, North Easter Railway, North Frontier Railway, Western Railway, North Western Railway, North Central Railway, East Central Railway were present during the inaugural session.