In order to call for innovative ideas from all citizens/ sections of the country, the Minister of Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu in a programme held on 14.12.2016 at Rail Bhawan launched a campaign innovation challenges for Indian Railways in line with his Budget Announcement 2016-17.
The idea is a perquisite for change and innovative ideas can be borne in mind by anyone whether a stakeholder, a rail user or any other individual.
Campaign will be a kind of brainstorming for all. He said that every citizen of the country has lot of potential and can play a great role for development of the nation.
This Campaign would be a unique kind of platform which will enable all citizens of the country to improve the functioning of the Indian Railways which is known as lifeline of the nation.
The following five challenges are aimed at promoting innovation in our country by focusing on specific problems being faced by Indian Railways:
- Innovation Challenge for ‘Design of Wagons for efficient loading and transportation of new commodities’.
- Innovation Challenge for ‘Easy Accessibility to Trains from Low Level Platforms’.
- Innovatio n Challenge for ‘New Idea/ Suggestion to improve the working of Indian Railways’.
- Innovation Challenge for ‘Increasing Passenger Carrying Capacity of Coaches of Indian Railways’.
- Innovation Challenge for Developing New Digital Capabilities at the Stations of Indian Railways’.
