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MISSION GOAL
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To develop
and adopt state-of- the-art safety and control technologies
defined by needs related to Indian conditions. The mission
will implement projects aimed at achieving higher
throughput, lower cost of transmission and safer train
movement.
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To encourage
and initiate R & D activities pertinent to Indian Railways
in academic institutions and laboratories and establish
convergence and synergy among them.
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To evolve and
establish the academia-research institution-industry
consortium approach as a viable and vibrant mission mode of
research and development.
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To
disseminate technologies through participatory approach to
other application areas
MISSION
APPROACH
IIT Kanpur and
RDSO Lucknow are proposed to be the major collaborators in the
mission.
A trident consortium comprising of
(i)
Academic and Research institutions,
(ii)
Railway Organisations and
(ii) Industry is
proposed to be formed.
Such a consortium
is essential for effective definition and implementation of
projects.
The constituents of the consortium will collaborate to bring
expertise and will share responsibilities. RDSO is expected to
bring domain knowledge and experience to articulate problems and
conceptualize projects. Academic institutions like IITs and CSIR
laboratories will contribute towards problem analysis, design
synthesis and prototype development; the industry is expected to
provide inputs relevant for adoption of technology and its
commercialization.
In this regard the first meeting of the possible consortium was
held at IIT Kanpur on 25th August 2003. The participants in this
meeting included Ministry of Railways, New Delhi, RDSO Lucknow,
CSIO Chandigarh, TCS Bangalore, BESCO Kolkata, BHEL Hyderabad,
New Delhi, Jhansi and Hardwar, BEL Bangalore, IIT Delhi, IIT
Roorkee and IIT Kanpur.
The meeting was followed by further discussions on the technical
and administrative scope of the proposal, between the Director
General RDSO Lucknow, Senior Officials from the Ministry of
Railways, New Delhi and the Director, IIT Kanpur, on September
9, 2003. Further meeting took place between RDSO Lucknow and IIT
Kanpur on September 15, 2003 and October 3, 2003 to define the
framework of various research and development programs to be
undertaken by the mission. Inputs were also received on many
issues from the various researchers who participated in the
meeting of August 25, 2003.
The first version of the proposal was developed after these
discussions.
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