Railway minister inaugurates conference on railway digitization

Apr 12, 2017: Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu inaugurated the conference on ‘Digitization of Railway Supply Chain - A Leap forward in Ease of Doing Business’ organized by Ministry of Railways in association with The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (ASSOCHAM) and Indian Railway Institute of Material Management (IRLMM).

Railway Board chairman AK Mital, ASSOCHAM president Sunil Kanoria were also present on the occasion along with other senior officials.

Speaking on the railways’ move towards digitization, Prabhu said that the ministry is working on Enterprise Resource Programme - a software which shall benefit railways immensely. He also stressed on optimum asset utilization and laid focus on framing tech specifications of all items for real time benefit of vendors as well as Indian Railways. Prabhu also added that Indian Railway is the trendsetter among ministries to start e-procurement in the year 2005-06 and has taken initiatives in e-tender, e-auction, e-procurements and e-scrap.

As the backbone of transport infrastructure in the country, Indian Railways has stepped up their efforts to meet the growing needs of the economy.