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FAQ: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
COMMON QUESTIONS
Q.1: What is innovation challenge?
The innovation challenge is an effort to motivate the Indian Citizens to think and contribute in the development and value addition efforts of the country's main rail transport service provider. The competition encourages out of the box thinking and solutions for the current aspirations of the stakeholders.
Q.2: What are the areas proposed for innovation challenge?
Five specific challenges have been concurrently floated. The details can be seen on www.innovate.mygov.in
Q.3: What are the evaluation criteria for innovation challenges?
Evaluation criteria for each of the challenges have been framed to account for the main requirements of the particular challenge for the purpose of ensuring that the suggested idea is effective. They have also been published in advance to enable the participants to understand the importance of different parameters and submit their ideas/ write-ups accordingly.
Q.4: What type of Royalty or Benefits may I get, if I am individual and my idea is selected?
The winners shall get awards as detailed in the awards section of the competition. Any tax liability on award money shall have to be borne by the winners themselves. There is no additional royalty or benefit proposed to accrue to the winners, other than the awards. The participants are strongly advised to go through the Terms and Conditions laid out in the challenge.
Q.5: What is the feasibility of implementation of the proposed ideas for innovation challenges?
Feasibility of implementation is one of the criteria for judging the idea, given the prevalent environment conditions and existing legacy systems and skill levels of Railways.
Q.6: What are the possible constraints anticipated in development of the proposed innovation challenges?
Implementation of new ideas comes with its own sets of risks and hurdles. In certain cases, the participants are advised to comment on the potential hurdles anticipated and how the innovation proposes to overcome or sidestep them. The difficulties in implementation may arise from the environment in which the innovation is deployed, from the inherent nature of the technology used and maintained and conflict with existing usage pattern and maintenance skill. While there can be no exhaustive list of constraints, participants should thoroughly analyze the difficulties in implementation during the life cycle of the product.
Q.7: What are the maintainability criteria of the proposed innovation challenges?
The proposed idea should take into account the difficulties that may arise in maintaining the design. These difficulties may pertain to Accessibility, Ease of Replacement, Procurement of Spares &Consumables and the Skill required, among others. The participants should consider these issues in the design and elaborate how they have strived to account for these issues in their designs.
Q.8: What is Age limit for participants?
Participants (Individual/or in case of teams, the team leader) are required to be at least 18 years of age on the date of launch of the competition.
Q.9: In case of team project, what will be the size of team?
In case of team, total team members, including the team leader, should not exceed six.
Q.10: What are the Nationality criteria in Eligibility?
The challenge is open only to Indian resident nationals. In case of companies, majority of team members/shareholders are required to be Indian resident nationals.
Q.11: Who can't participate in the challenge?
The following persons and their immediate relatives cannot participate in the Challenge:
An employee of Indian Railways directly involved in execution and evaluation of the Challenge.
A member or employee of Knowledge cum execution partner/Organizer.
A member of the Evaluation panel, Experts and Jury for the Challenge.
Q.12: What will be the mode of entry?
The competition is designed as an online challenge. The following method applies:
For posting the entries using the online application system, participants are advised to go to https://www.innovate.mygov.in and click on the "CLICK HERETO PARTIPATE" button. The participant will be taken to a landing page featuring the registration form with various fields.
Participant will have to fill out the Participant Registration form and Entry Submission Form. The submission must comply with the requirements as set out in the Guidelines mentioned on the online Entry Submission Form.
On successful submission, participant will receive a confirmation email.
Q.13: What will be the Entry Submission Fields and Size of file?
The participants shall be required to submit their entries in the fields provided in the Entry Submission Forms limited to the number of characters prescribed as per templates. Drawings, if necessary, can be attached as PDF, but should not exceed 5 MB in size.
Q.14: What will be the preferred Language for submitting the write up?
The write up should either be submitted in Hindi or English. In case submission is in any other language, it must be accompanied with translations in either Hindi or English.
FAQS SPECIFIC TO INNOVATION CHALLENGE FOR "INCREASING PASSENGER CARRYING CAPACITY OF COACHES OF INDIAN RAILWAYS"
Q.1: How we can enhance Passenger Carrying Capacity of Coaches of Indian Railways and up to what percentage it should be increased maximum?
The idea is to modify the existing layout design of the coaches in such a way that passenger carrying capacity is enhanced without compromising existing level of ergonomic comfort and passenger amenities. No specific capacity increase is targeted.
Q.2: How to make the proposed coach cost effective?
The cost effectiveness of the coach depends upon the various factors such as:
Cost parameter.
Effective techno-commercial aspects including cost, interchangeability and availability of spares.
Products, process flow & methods and stages of production with quality.
Simplicity and Maintainability.
Q.3: What do you mean by ergonomic comfort?
Ergonomic Comfort is the practice of designing products, systems, or processes to take proper account of the interaction between product and the people who use them.
Q.4: What are the constraints in proposed Coach Design?
The constraints in coach layout design pertain to existing structural members and onboard utilities like location of windows; AC vents, pathways, inter-coach connections and privacy issues. Participants are also advised to consider their proposed layouts from the point of view of swift maintenance and emergency evacuation from windows and doors.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
The write up should either be submitted in Hindi or English.
In case submission is in any other language, it must be accompanied with translations in either Hindi or English.
It could be an individual project or a team project. However, in case of team, total team members, including the team leader, should not exceed six.
No reference of the identity of the person(s) submitting should be made in the proposal. If done so, it shall debar the entry from consideration.
It is strongly advised not to wait till the closure time for submission of entries. Railways shall not be responsible for late/ non receipt of entries on account of server errors/ traffic.
The contestants may be asked to present/ elaborate their proposed solution to an appropriate jury.
Railways may decide to associate with the proposer for further development of the proposed Concept/ design.
The decision of the Evaluation Panel and Jury will be final. No communication will be entered into with any person in relation to any decision of the panel or process.
Unsuccessful entries shall be intimated through email and Ministry of Railways shall not have any right over the same.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Mode of Entry:
For posting the entries using the online application system, participants are advised to go to https://innovate.mygov.in and click on the "CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE" button. The participant will be taken to a landing page featuring the registration form with various fields
Participant will have to fill out the Participant Registration Form and Entry Submission Form. The submission must comply with the requirements as set out in the Guidelines mentioned on the online Entry Submission form.
On successful submission, participant will receive a confirmation email.
Should Indian Railways/ Organizers require additional information, they will contact the registered participant via email. Participants are advised to duly provide any additional information as instructed.
Correspondence: Any correspondence from the Indian Railways/Organizers to participants shall be through email or SMS on mobile number provided by the participant at the time of registration. Organizers and Indian Railways are not liable in case of email delivery failures.
Last Date
Entries duly completed and fully filled must be submitted using the online application system before 6pm IST on 20/02/2017 .
Eligibility
The Challenge is open to Individuals and Companies/ Institutions.
In case of Companies, majority of Team Members/ Shareholders are required to be Indian Resident Nationals.
All Participating Individuals are required to be Indian Resident Nationals.
Participants (Individual/ or in case of teams, the team leader) are required to be at least 18 years of age as on 1/12/2016 .
The following persons and their immediate relatives can not participate in the Challenge:
An employee of Indian Railways directly involved in execution and evaluation of the Challenge.
A member or employee of knowledge cum execution partner / Organizer.
A member of the Evaluation panel, Experts and Jury for the Challenge.
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