Digitised Online Human Resource Management System of Indian Railways
Indian Railway has launched on 26th November, 2020 entirely digitized online Human Resource Management System (HRMS). The 100 per cent digitised online Human Resource Management System (HRMS) has been launched by Indian Railways in an attempt to increase its productivity and ensure employee satisfaction. This attempt is said to be a major step towards making the country digitally empowered. As a step towards employee interface, Indian Railways has introduced the HRMS. This initiative targets to bring all the railway employees on the employee portal so that all the processes of personnel management starting right from hiring to retiring will be on the digital platform. Indian Railways has already launched other modules of the Human Resource Management System including the Employee Master module, Electronic Service Record module, Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR) module, Electronic Pass module and Office Order Module. Railway Board has launched following modules of HRMS and User depot useful for railway employees and pensioners on 26th November, 2020 via video conferencing-such as Employee Self Service (ESS) module, Provident Fund (PF) Advance module, Settlement module. The Human Resource Management System (HRMS) can impact over twenty seven lakh families of serving Railway workers further those that have retired. It can facilitate improvement within the potency and productivity of the Railways. The system will herald transparency and increase answerability within the operating of Railways. This paper tries to present the digital aspect of HRMS of Indian Railways and suggestions for successful implementation of the digital HRMS.