বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
Financial Commissioner for Railways:
In his capacity as ex-officio Secretary, the Financial Commissioner for Railways is vested with full powers of the Government of Bangladesh to sanction railway expenditure. No proposals involving expenditure or affecting revenues can be sanctioned without his prior concurrence.
Other Members:
Members in charge of staff, transportation and engineering shall be responsible for dealing with all aspects of Technical subjects under their charge.
The constitution of the Railway Board should give it freedom in shaping and carrying out Railway policy to enable it to treat Railways as a national undertaking to be developed on commercial lines.
The members of the Railway Board shall be assisted by Directors and Joint Directors. There shall be a Secretary of the Railway Board with the status of a Director.
The Secretariat establishment shall be more or less in conformity with the pattern of the Civil Secretariat but the conditions of the Service of the staff of the former are principally linked up with those obtaining for Railway servants.
Attached Office:
Research, Design and Standardization Organisation.
The principal aim of this organisation is to promote progressively standardization of rolling stock, track, bridges, structures and all equipment used on the Bangladesh Railways in accordance with the changing conditions and as a result of practical experience. It shall be responsible for the preparation and supply of Bangladesh Railway Standard. Drawings and specifications for an equipment and material used by the Railways in Bangladesh. The work relating to the inspection of locomotive boilers shall also be conducted by this Office. It shall also perform all the functions of foreign consulting engineers as specialists for designs, etc. in various branches of Railway Engineering. It also has an Architectural Wing which deals with all the architectural designs requires by the Railways.
The Railway Testing and Research Centre shall deal with investigation and problems of research pertaining to Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering as also Metallurgical and Chemical Research. Research on a concrete and building and research and tests on bridges structures and track shall also be varied out by the organisation. It also provides information service which publishes bulletins and summaries of important research conducted in Bangladesh and abroad. It will publish the Bangladesh Railway Technical bulletin and other technical Railway papers.
Subordinate Offices:
(1) Railway Rates Tribunal.
A Railway Rates Tribunal with mandatory powers needs to be seat Chittagong. An Act will be necessary for this The functions of the Tribunal shall be to hear and decide complaints against the Railway Administration in respect of undue discrimination;
