Major Activities of IT Centre:-
1.AIMS/IPAS: (Accounting Information Management System/ Integrated Payroll Accounting System):-
Payroll: (i) Generation & Printing of various payroll reports like NDA, NHA, Pay Review, Salary Reports and (ii) Generation & Processing of bill unit wise salary bills etc.
Incentive: (i) Online Direct Workers Incentive entry, Processing, Validation & freezing, Incentive adjustment (if any), Generation of Incentive Appendix report, ,(ii) Offline SSE Incentives generation etc.
I-Tax: Projection and preparation of various I-Tax Reports (Annexure-I, II) to be uploaded to NSDL by Accounts.
Misc Activities: (i)IPAS User Management (Activation, Deactivation, Bill Unit Privilege, Sectional Privilege), (ii) Assisting & trouble shooting of various problem related to Cadre, Payroll, Leave, Bill Passing, Executive Bill, PF, Pension, Book etc. arising out from IPAS end user from time to time, (iii) Aquittance Reports & Other Managerial Reports as required by the Administration from time to time etc.
2.WISE (Workshop Information System)
This system reflects total history of coach and loco entered in workshop, till its dispatch with system designed reports POH History, Berth Bay Report, Wagon Outturn Summary, RS Wise Assembly Report.
3.WGR (Workshop General Register)
WGR is a combine of (i) work order, (ii) Implementation of Online WGR module of WAMS (AIMS) and Implementation of Offline WGR module.
4.Quarter & Electricity
Live implementation of Quarter and Electricity module in AIMS/IPAS, Trouble shooting of various problems of these modules faced by end users and Preparation of Electricity recovery statement of Quarter holders if any .
5.Revised Costing
·Offline Revised POH costing reports are being generated from D-base application.
·Online Revised Electric Loco POH Costing reports are being generated from WAMS costing module.
Other Activities:-
(i) Monitoring official website of Kanchrapara Workshops www.er.indianrailway.gov.in.
(ii) Monitoring and uploading of RTI Cases on website.
(iii) Twitter grievance redressal.
(iv) Technical vetting of IT related items i.e. PC & PC peripherals.
(v) Centralized AMC of PCs/Laptop and its peripherals by outside agency.
(vi) Procurement of 10 PC & 5 PC and peripheral under sanction power of CWM/KPA & SR.EDPM/KPA respectively in every year.
(vii) Billing System of electric consumption for outside party (Private-174 Nos., Central govt.-27 Nos., KV School- 2 Nos.)
(viii) Procurement & distribution of IT hardware & other electronic items under the work of “Upliftment & Improvement of infrastructure for critical work centre of KPA workshop”.
(ix) Centralised Monitoring & Maintenance of 155 MBPS Railnet network connectivity by outside agency.
(x) Successful running of VCs and other conferences organized time to time.
Infrastructure of Eastern Railway Workshop, Kanchrapara related to IT Centre:
A.PC & PC-Peripherals
| Total nos. of Desktop PCs. | LAPTOPs | Line Interactive UPS | Printers |
| DMP | Laser (B/W) | Laser (color) | Line Matrix | Heavy Duty |
| 330 | 6 | 170 | 55 | 160 | 15 | 03 | 02 |
Line Matrix Printers at Console room of IT Centre/KPA:
B. UTM Router Firewall :
UTM Firewall of M/S Annexgate has several functions to protect computer networks that can be described in the following points:
a.Used for Monitors Network Traffic
b.Stops virus attacks
c.Prevents Hacking etc.
C. Local Area Network(LAN) with Equipments:
LAN included with Optical Fiber Cables (OFC) - 2500 Mtrs,UTP Cables(cat-6) as mentioned below:
| Sl No. | Item Descriptions | Units | Quantity |
| 1 | 5 port unmanaged Switch(10/100Mbps) | Nos. | 08 |
| 2 | 5 port unmanaged Switch(1Gbps) | Nos. | 40 |
| 2 | 8 port unmanaged switch(1Gbps) | Nos. | 38 |
| 3 | 24 port managed Switch(1Gbps) | Nos. | 03 |
| 4 | 24 unmanaged Switch(1Gbps) | Nos. | 10 |
| 5 | Router (10/100Mbps) | Nos. | 01 |
| 6 | Router (1Gbps) | Nos. | 04 |
Local Area Network Diagram of KPA Workshop
