Tata to chair second Kaya Kalp meet today

August 25, 2015 09:27

Noted industrialist and Tata Group's chairman emeritus Ratan Tata will hold the second meeting of Kaya Kalp council in New Delhi today.

As per the meeting's agenda, the council will take up issues such as performance, social responsibility, customer satisfaction, employee benefits and adoption of modern technology in the Railways.

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

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.

Railways has compiled various data concerning railways of other countries like China, France, Germany and UK to fix a target for Indian Railways as decided in the last meeting.

The 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 also examine the vision on traction in its second meeting.

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