The Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu launched ‘eSamikSha’ for monitoring the implementation of budget announcements/commitments, at a function held at Rail Bhawan on 21st April 2015. While launching this initiative, Shri Suresh Prabhu said that it is a very good beginning as the budget announcements and assurances given in the Parliament need to be given due importance and this portal would help to keep an eye on the implementation of those budget commitments. He said that this portal will mainly focus on Budget Review, Board Meetings, Zonal Railway Review, Infrastructure Targets and Project Implementation Review. Shri Suresh Prabhu thanked Cabinet Secretariat and National Informatics Centre (NIC) for developing this system. He said that besides using this Portal for Railway Budget announcement implementation, there are several other modules in the eSamikSha software, which can be used for coordination by respective Directorates, Zonal and Divisional level officials in Indian Railways. 

eSamikSha is a real time, on-line system for monitoring of follow-up action on the decisions taken during the presentations made by different Ministries/Departments to the Prime Minister. The follow-up action in respect of each decision is to be updated by the concerned Ministry/Department/Agency as and when the status changes or at least every month. Different users such as the PMO/Cabinet Secretariat/Ministries/Departments can securely access the system through a log-in/password. This system can also be configured to review the follow up action in respect of other meetings, if required. 

Shri Suresh Prabhu had directed that software needs to be developed to enable online monitoring of Budget Implementation and Project monitoring.

Also present on the occasion were Chairman, Railway Board, Shri A.K.Mital, Board Member, HOD, Cabinet Secretariat Informatics Division, Dr. Shubhag Chand with Team and other senior railway officials. 

News of launching of Rail-eSamikSha has been covered widely in the media.