Ratan Tata to hold second Kayakalp Council meeting on August 25

Ratan Tata to hold second Kayakalp Council meeting on August 25

New Delhi: Aiming at improving railway service by removing bottlenecks, noted industrialist and Tata Group’s chairman emeritus Ratan Tata will hold the second meeting ofKaya Kalp council here on August 25.

The council, headed by Tata, will take up the performance and social responsibility of public transporter in the upcoming meeting at the Rail Bhawan.

According to the agenda of the meeting, Tata will also examine customer satisfaction, employee benefit and adoption of modern technology in the Railways.

The first Kaya Kalp meeting was held in May where Tata had suggested an incentive-driven mechanism for employees resolving through innovative ideas problems faced by the public transporter.

Kaya Kalp, the new innovative council of Railways, has been set up by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu to recommend innovative methods and processes for the improvement, betterment and transformation of the state-run rail network.

“In the last meeting it was decided to collect various data concerning railways of other countries like China, France, Germany and UK to fix a target for Indian Railways and accordingly this has been done,” said a senior Railway Ministry official.

Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Sons group who had made it clear in the last meeting that all the stakeholders should be on the “same page” for the betterment of Railways, is expected to set a benchmark for the public transporter.

The council will examine the vision on traction in its second meeting.

Besides two senior railway officials, General Secretary of National Federation of Indian Railwaymen M Raghavaiah and General Secretary of All-India Railwaymen’s Federation Shiv Gopal Mishra are also the memebers of the Kaya Kalp council.