be taken in a number of areas to make this august organisation the country's pride once again. The officers of IRAS along with the executives responded to the challenges and within a short period of 5–6 years, Indian Railways was a financially vibrant organisation. In the year 2007–08, Indian Railways had a cash surplus of 250 billion rupees. Recently, Finance department of Railways has embarked upon computerising its whole accounting and finance functions by implementing a customised software called AFRES (Advance Finance Railway Earning & Expenditure System). As decided by government of India at the end of 2019 all Railway services are to be merged into one service called Indian Railway Management Service. Moreover, Railway Board has been reconstituted with chairman and CEO as head and Member Finance, Member Transportation and Business Development, Member Infrastructure and Member Rolling Stock and Traction. Firsts in IRAS – ]Last Financial Commissioner(Railways) ] Mr Vijay Kumar , IRAS ]} Attachments with various institutes Alma Mater at Indian Railway Institute of Financial Management, (IRIFM), Secunderabad http://irifm.org/ Railway Foundation Course at National Academy of Indian Railway (NAIR), Vadodara. Tourism and Hospitality management Training at Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Accounts Training at Centralised Training Academy for Railway Accounts (C-TARA), Secundarabad Secretariat Training at Institute for Institute of Secretariat Training and Management (ISTM), New Delhi Ethical Governance Training at Initiatives of Change (IofC), Panchgani Accounts Training at National Academy Of Audit and Accounts (NAAA), Shimla Container Logistics Training at Inland Container Depot (ICD), Tughlaqabad Signals and Tele-communications Training at Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRISET), Secundarabad P-Way, Works and Contract Management Training at Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering (IRICEN), Pune Locomotive, Rolling Stock and Workshop Management Training at Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (IRIMEE), Jamalpur Electric Traction and Railway Electrification Management Training at Indian Railway Institute of Electrical Engineering (IRIEEN), Nashik Infrastructure Security Management Training at Jagjivan Ram Railway Protection Force Academy (JRRPF), Lucknow Railway Information Infrastructure Management Training at Centre for Railway information systems (CRIS), New Delhi Parliamentary Procedures Training at Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training (BPST), New Delhi Divisional attachments at 68 divisions spread across the length and breadth of the country Industrial Field visits – Coal India, Aditya Birla Cements, TATA, Bhilai Steel Plant Port Attachments – Paradip, Vishakhapatnam, JNPT, Mangalore, Krishnapatnam, Ennore etc. Appreciation Visits to various Railway establishments situated in difficult terrains