Indian Railways offers mammoth opportunity for IT industry: Suresh Prabhu
Mar 29, 2017: Indian railways offers mammoth opportunity of business to the IT industry of India, said Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu at a recently organised conference at National Rail Museum Auditorium, at the national capital.
The conference was organised under the theme “IR-One ICT (One Information and Communication Technology) Building Digital Railway for Digital India.”
Along with Prabhu, who inaugurated the conference, Minister of state for Railways Rajen Gohain, Railway Board Chairman, A.K. Mital, other board members, officers of Indian Railways and delegates from NASSCOM and IT industry also attended the conference.
Speaking on the occasion, Prabhu said, “It’s a very interesting program. Over a period of time, huge growth is observed in IT Sector. There are huge opportunities in IT sector. IT industry looks around for business all around; they don’t look for business next door. IT industry has done well and there are lot of opportunities in India.
Indian Railways offers a mammoth opportunity. Indian Railways is not only about operation. Indian Railways does lot of activities in different spheres like medical, education, social, environmental. In the budget speech, it was announced that Indian Railways needs integrated and holistic approach for digitalization. It was explored how Indian Railways can partner with IT industry through NASSCOM. Through this enterprise, Vendor and Railway should benefit mutually. It’ll be a turnaround situation.”
He further added, “This Digital Platform shall be the biggest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Cyber Security should be kept in mind. Precautions should be taken. It should be explored how line functions can be achieved through ICT, how future goals may be realised through ICT. This roundtable can be immensely helpful to realise these goals in less time.”
IR-OneICT or Indian Railways One Information and Communication Technology Platform is an initiative to enable Indian Railways to deliver goods and services in tune with the demands of the fast growing economy by creation of logistics & transport capacity enabled by Digital platform.
