Rail India Conference & Expo 2019 | Messe Frankfurt GmbH | 29 August 2019 | The LaLiT New Delhi, Police Station, Near, Barakhamba Rd, Fire Brigade Lane, Connaught Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, India

Often called the lifeline of the nation, the Indian Railways, of late, has been reeling under challenges, primarily due to inadequate investments in upgradation and modernisation of infrastructure. This resulted in the Ministry of Railways launching an ambitious investment plan of Rs 8,560 billion for fiscals 2016-2020. The Railway Budget 2019-20 saw overall allocation towards railways increasing to Rs 1,608 billion vis-à-vis Rs 1,038 billion in fiscal 2018. The considerable increase in total investment outlay with budgetary support of ~40%, underscores the government’s vision to transform the Indian Railways.

In the past couple of years, the Ministry of Railways has launched various marquee initiatives in this direction. These include Project Swarn and Project Utkrisht for improving passenger amenities; conversion of diesel to electric locomotives; launch of the indigenously developed Vande Bharat Express, India’s first semi high speed train, under Mission Raftaar; introduction of air conditioned EMU rakes for Mumbai suburban rail network; introduction of dwarf containers to promote containerisation; rationalisation of energy mix; amongst others. The most awaited infrastructure projects in railways is the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project, which will bring about a paradigm shift in freight transportation by rail once commissioned by March 2020.

The investments and initiatives of the Ministry of Railways for transformation of railways are multipronged, cutting across various facets of railway transportation. The focus areas include enhanced safety, technological improvement and development, infrastructure augmentation and development, improvement of passenger services, customer centric freight policy, energy efficiency, and research and development. Safety has been given utmost importance as highlighted by an increase of 138% in expenditure on safety related activities in fiscal 2019 from fiscal 2010.

2019 Speakers

Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav
Chairman, Railway Board, Ministry of Railways

Shri S. K. Lohia
Managing Director & CEO, Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Ltd.

Shri Anurag Sachan
Managing Director, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India

Shri Puneet Chawla
Chairman and MD, RailTel Corporation of India Ltd.

Shri Rajiv Agrawal
General Manager, North Eastern Railway

Smt. Rashmi Goel
General Manager, Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW)

Mr. Katsuo Matsumoto
Chief Representative India, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Shri Akhil Agrawal
Principal Advisor (S&T), RVNL & Former Director General/S&T/Railway Board

Shri Sudhanshu Mani
General Manager (Retd.), IRSME, ICF, Chennai; Team Leader – Train 18

Shri HK Raghu
Executive Director - Urban Transport & High Speed Directorate, RDSO

Shri Sunil Mathur
Director (RS &S), Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.

Shri Prashant Rao
Director (Systems, Electrical & Rolling Stock), Gujarat Metro Rail Corp. Ltd.

Shri Ajaykumar A. Bhatt
Director (Systems), Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (MMRCL)

Mr. Ramakrishnan Venkataraman
Area Sales Director, Dassault Systemes

Mr. Mangal Dev
Head of Hitachi Railway Systems Business - India & South Asia; Director Hitachi India Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Akshay Purkayastha
Director – Transport & Logistics, CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory

Dr. Ajeet Kumar
Delivery Manager – Rail Transportation, L&T Technology Services

Shri Ankala Sai Baba
Chief Track Engineer, South East Central Railways

2019 Partners

SILVER:
• Dassault Systemes

DELEGATE KIT PARTNER:
• Liebherr

SOFTWARE PARTNER:
• ANSYS

SUPPORTED BY:
• Indian Railways
• AHK

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER:
• CRISIL

EXHIBIT PARTNERS:
• Accurate
• Aditya
• Matrix
• Intelux
• JMV