Pitroda to head railway expert panel for modernisation

Committee to submit a preliminary report in two months

PTI | September 22, 2011



After the high-level committee on safety, railways on Wednesday constituted another expert committee headed by technocrat Sam Pitroda to recommend ways and means to modernise tracks, signalling, rolling stock and stations.

"We are looking at the Railways to be taken to the fourth generation. We have set up a committee which will look into the modernisation in railways," Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi told reporters in the Capital.

Deepak Parekh, HDFC Bank Chairman, M S Verma, former SBI Chairman, Raghuram, Professor IIM, Ahmedabad, Rajiv Lal, IDFC MD and Vinayak Chatterjee, Feedback, Infrastructure Services Chairman are members of the committee.

The committee will submit a preliminary report in two months. Trivedi said the "economy will grow at about 8 per cent provided Indian Railways grow at 10 or 12 per cent. Railways is and definitely going to be the engine of growth."

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