Chairman, Railway Board, Mr. Ashwani Lohani
on Thursday announced that railways would shortly undergo massive structural
and processes reforms to strengthen its networks and bring in efficiencies to
embark on the path of accelerated growth.
Speaking at 112th Annual Session of PHD
Chamber of Commerce and Industry here today, Mr. Lohani also stressed that
consolidation and growth would simultaneously happen in railways with aforesaid
structural and processes reforms which unfortunately were neglected in the
past.
However, with government’s special focus, not
only safety issues relating to railways have picked up a great momentum but
also accelerated pace of reforms is being generated well within the railway
board to make sure that new processes are put in place and newer innovations
brought in to make railways a competitive organization to take on its
counterparts on roads and airways, he said.
The Railway Board Chairman suggested that the
best way to bring in efficiencies in railways would be through generating
competitive spirit within the organization which has already begun to happen
but refused to subscribe the idea that penalties are the ideal way to remove
inefficiencies.
Secretary, Ministry of Road, Transport and
Highways, Mr. Yudhvir Singh Malik who also spoke on the occasion, however,
emphasized that logistics have been neglected in the past and now to improve
logistics, the department of Commerce has been activated by the government and
in due course of time India would begin to see the impact of better logistics
to drastically curtail the growing logistics cost in India on account of which
industry has to pay barely.
Principal Economic Advisor, Department of
Economic Affairs, Mr. Sanjeev Sanyal in his remarks emphasized that the focus
of regulatory mechanism in the new government is not towards centre oriented
and that it is driven towards states where actions lie. He proposed the sequencing of reforms which
are vitals for good regulations.
Among others who were present on the occasion
consisted of former Presidents of PHD Chamber Mr. Ashok Kajaria, Mr. Sandeep
Somany and Dr. Mahesh Gupta including its President, Mr. Gopal Jiwarajka and
Secretary General, Mr. Saurabh Sanyal.
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