Coal India signs MoU with Railways' CRIS to monitor freight movement

The mining giant said the information would help minimise the instances of under loading and overloading of rakes and untangles the knots benefitting CIL, Railways and consumers

The country's largest coal miner, state-owned Coal India Limited (CIL), has joined hands with Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), an arm of Ministry of Railways, for frieght monitoring and data sharing. 

CIL will get access to the Freight Operations Information System (FOIS) of Indian Railways, to help the coal miner monitor movement of coal rakes and coal despatch activity. CIL signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CRIS for the same.

FOIS is the management information system of the Indian Railways for its freight business which includes rake management and real time tracking. 

"The first of its kind data sharing offers CIL a