Three years from now, Indian railway network will be based on sophisticated, hi-tech and indigenously developed infrastructure ensuring safety of every passenger.
A technology mission -- Technology Mission on Railway Safety -- which is underway since last year in support from the ministry of human resource development, ministry of railways besides constortium of industries, was presented before HRD Minister Arjun Singh and State Minister for Railways R Velu on Friday in New Delhi at a function titled Unveiling of Technologies.
Appreciating the efforts of the Indian scientists in developing the low-cost vital projects for rail safety to be implemented in the next three years, Arjun Singh said, "It would go a long way to ensure safety and comfort to the passengers."
In his address, Joint Secretary HRD N K Sinha said, "The goals of the mission is to develop and adopt state-of-the-art safety, control and design technologies ensuring railway safety, defined by needs related to Indian conditions."
Dwelling in detail about the major projects being undertaken under TMRS, Sinha said, "Twelve programmes which have been categorised into four sub programs namely traction and rolling stock, traction and bridges, signals and communications and fog vision instrumentation."
During the function, the HRD minister unveiled a display screen showcasing a live status of some of the trains running on the railway network using hi-tech technology developed by IIT Kanpur.
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