Railways to offer research fellowships

Railways will award fellowships to carry out rail-related research at Central and state universities and prominent education institutions like IITs, IIMs and IIS.
Fellowship scheme will be introduced at Central and state universities and centres for excellence like IITs, IIMs and IIS, Railway Board Member (Staff) Pradeep Kumar said here today.
He said a scheme for encouraging railway employees to acquire higher qualifications at Masters level in IITs, IIMs and institutes of repute will also be introduced.
MoUs for setting up of centres for railway research at IIT Chennai, IIT-Kanpur, and IIT-Roorkee will be singed shortly, he said.
Railways had recently signed an MoU with University of Mumbai in April for setting up a Centre for Railway Research. Three more such centres will be established.

Kumar said an Academic Services Agreement was signed with Beijing Jiaotong University, China, for training of 100 officers of various departments in heavy haul technology.
In order to benefit railway officers, M.Tech programme in Railway Engineering is being introduced in consultation with IIT, Kharagpur, from academic session 2015-16.
He said services of professional agencies would be used for evaluation of railway training programmes.