PREFACE
Material Management Department
| Stores Branch in Mysuru Division is headed by JAG Officer (Sr.Divisional Material Manager) and Co-ordinate with the Branch officers of the Division for their materials requirements of Non-stock items through Local Purchase, medical & medicine items, gathi shakthi requirements, Engineering items within the powers delegated. He is also reponsible for mobilizing, inspection and to dispose off the open line scrap material in the entire Railway jurisdiction of Mysore division. The Sales section set up is functioning efficiently and Co-ordinates with related Branch officers for Scrap mobilization and ‘E’ auction for disposal of scrap. |
| Name | Designation | Contact No | e-mail |
| Shri. ANOOP SINGH YADAV, IRSS | Sr. Divisional Materials Manager | 9731667750 | srdmm@mys.railnet.gov.in mysdivision@gmail.com |
| VACANT | Asst. Divisional Materials Manager | - | - |
HERITAGE
Mysore State Railway
The MSR was established by the administrators of the Mysore State to focus on Rail development in the state. The first Rail line between Mysore and Bangalore was laid in I870 during the reign of HH Chamaraja Wadiyar. The Union government took over the MSR on April I, 1950 after the reorganization of railways. The Mysore Railway Station building was constructed in the late |940s.
Mysore State Railway (MSR) was a Railway company which was operated by the government of the Kingdom of Mysore. After India's constitute into a republic, MSR became part of Southern Railways under the Government Of India on 14 April 1951.
In 1879, the Madras Railway Company constructed a Railway line from Royapuram in Madras presidency to Bangalore city. At that time, Maharaja Chamaraja Wadiyar X established a separate Railway organisation to carryout extension lines from Bangalore to Mysore. This establishment came to be known as Mysore State Railway.
The Mysore-Nanjangud track stretching for 25.51 km was opened for traffic in 1891. The 60.74km Birur-Shimoga line was opened for traffic in 1899. Another important line was Yeshvantpur to Hindupur which was opened for traffic in 1892-93. In 1911-12, the Government of Mysore decided the formation of the State Railway Construction Department and it was put under the control of Sir E.A.S. Bell, the chief engineer. The Shimoga-Talaguppa section was laid in 1930. In 1951, it was merged with Madras and Southern Maratha Railway to form Southern Railway.
Mysore State Railway started laying the Shivamogga-Talaguppa 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3/8 in) line in the year 1930 to provide access to Jog Falls. Another purpose was to transport wooden logs from the forests of the Malnad region to make wooden sleepers and also to be used as a fuel in the furnaces of the Mysore Iron Works at Bhadravathi. The final section of the line from Sagara to Talaguppa was inaugurated on 9 November 1940.
RAILWAY TICKET PRINTING PRESS-STORES DEPARTMENT
The Ticket Printing Press at Mysore was under the established by the erstwhile Wadiyar of Mysore kingdom during the year 1908 and was available in the ground floor of the Divisional Railway Manager office, Mysore.
The year engraved in the machines is 1908 along with the name of its manufacturer Waterlow and sons, London. Further in a phased manner total five machines had been installed in press.
The press was the only such facility in existence in SWR Limits among 11 across the nation, was printing Edmondson tickets (The Edmondson railway ticket was a system for recording the payment of railway fares and accounting for the revenue raised, introduced in the 1840s. It is named after its inventor. Thomas Edmondson) issued for the halt stations.
The machines had the capacity to print 4000 tickets per hour. On an average eight lakhs tickets were printed every month.
In the Mysore press, there were nine employees, a supervisor and eight skilled workers were working under the Manager and was controlled by Material Management Department. Following the advent of computerised tickets, the Railway Board had decided to get rid of the printing press and shut down the century old Railway Ticket printing factory on 31.03.2013.
DIVISIONAL STORES DEPARTMENT
The stores department in division is functioning under Sr.DMM to procure and supply the non stocked items to consignees of various departments and disposal of scrap materials in Mysore division. This department has implemented the procurement systems through on line portals like GeM, IREPS and scrap sales through e-Auction and accounting through UDM System. In addition to that, the Gathishakthi requirements are also to be procured through stores department only.
Earlier Mysore divisional Store was operated under AMM post and in 2007 the post was upgraded to SMM level and further in 2009 again the post was upgraded to JAG level Grade.
RENOVATION OF STORE DEPARTMENT IN MYS DIVISION
The Divisional Materials Managers office and officers chambers was renovated with vitrified flooring, concealed electrical and signal cables with fittings and providing modern facilities like modern furniture, New AIO PCs to staff during the year 2024-25.
