India Railways, Asia’s largest network, has bagged IT Transformation Award 2006 of NASSCOM, the national platform of the Indian IT industry. Commenting on Indian Railways achievement, Kiran Karnik, President of NASSCOM said that the Indian Railways is “an extraordinary example of a turnaround story, and their plans of public private partnerships for IT (which include ERP, MIS, and optimisation and consolidation of multiple applications and Mission 2015 plan), makes this a challenging and exciting opportunity for IT companies.”
Indian Railways will invest $ 1.5 billion or Rs 6000 crore over the next five years to upgrade IT facilities in rail network. "We have the best operating ratio..Have invested Rs 1000 crore on IT in the 10th Five year Plan and plans to invest 1.5 billion dollar over the next five year years", Sudhir Kumar, OSD to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, said at the NASSCOM award giving ceremony on June 25.
In September, the Indian Railways would be inviting the best open competitive bids from the IT companies for several initiatives. These IT initiatives include giving hand-held computers to ticket examiners, building cyber cafes at stations, digitizing the signaling system and linking all online applications with the computerized reservation system and tracking the passenger and freight trains, he pointed out.
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