Knowledge Management on

Indian Railways through

Knowledge Portal
8th APNRTC (Asia Pacific Network of Rail Training Centres), UIC
New Delhi -8th and 9th October 2015

Rajnish Kumar
Professor IT
National Academy of Indian Railways
Vadodara
pit@nair.railnet.gov.in, rajnishkumar1971@gmail.com

http://www.kportal.indianrailways.gov.in/

Objectives of the Portal

This is an aggregation of information, with links to resources of the Indian Railways,
for the purpose of dissemination of knowledge, innovations and best practices.
Generation of ideas encouraged through the discussion forum.
There are links to the worlds foremost research organizations and Universities
working on Railways.
This is a one stop arrangement for everyone interested in Indian Railways in particular
and Railways in General

Home Page.1

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RSS Feeds from Worlds Top Journals

This is a unique feature, updates from worlds top
most journals, research organisations on Railways
is placed on the portal. These are updated atleast
twice a day automatically through RSS feeds.

Subject wise listing

For each subject
links and text for

Research in IR
Subject matter
Statistics
Codes and Manuals
Training Institute Link
Concerned Directorate
in Railway Board

Online Learning
Lectures by the Faculty are open to all.
Comments and feedback are possible, use
of scribd.com
Virtual Learning Environment will soon be
established.
Links to worlds best Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOC) like
Coursera, edX, MOC etc.

Documentation on Indian Railways

IR Codes and Manuals
Reports

Audit
Independent
Parliament
Committee

About IR
Budget
IR Publications

Railway Related Research

RDSO

Safety
Passenger Amenities
Operational Efficiency
Indigenous Development

International Institutes
listed and hyperlinked

Railway Related Research

RDSO

Safety
Passenger Amenities
Operational Efficiency
Indigenous Development

International Institutes
listed and hyperlinked

Ideas generation and dissemination

Directorate of IR
Monthly Report of
Innovations
Project Reports (For Internal
use only)
Ideas to Ministry
Shortlisted Innovations with
contact details of Personnel

Library (all IR Libraries are being clustered)

NAIR

National Library, Kolkata

RDSO

Parliament Library

IRICEN

Railway Board Library

IRIMEE

Indian Railways Digital Repository of

Official Documents

IRISET

Asiatic Society Library

IRIEEN

UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium

IRITM

National Archives of India

C-TARA, Secunderabad
World Libraries can be browsed here http://www.lib-web.org/

Authors Corner
Several Options
Publishing online
In house journals
On Academys website

Journals list can be found on

portal
Railway Related Research

Forums
There are several formal and informal
discussion groups

Each has its clientele and importance

They have been enlisted and useful

discussions after permission from respective
administrators will be published on portal
The importance of informal discussions has
been realized.

Experts Groups
Form has been posted on portal
The registered user will give basic
information like
Email
Name
Work done
Subject/Area

The experts will be introduced to each

other virtually, to form discussion groups

The innovations reported will be sent to them for

analysis
Monthly/quarterly reports will be generated
online for perusal by interested groups.

Content Control- Knowledge Officers

Subjects
Civil
Mechanical
Electrical
Signal & Telecom
Operations
Commercial
Safety
General Management
Operations Research
Materials Management
HR Management
Finance
Security
Law, Vigilance
Medical

Knowledge Officer, nominee of Director General/Director

IRICEN- Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune
IRIMEE- Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jamalpur
IRIEEN- Indian Railways Institute of Electrical Engineering, Nasik
IRISET- Indian Railways Institute of Signal and Telecommunications
Engineering, Secunderabad
IRITM- Indian Railways Institute of Transportation Management, Lucknow
IRITM
IRITM

National Academy of Indian Railways, Vadodara

Use of existing resources

Not to reinvent anything
Use existing resources
Social media tools
Online document sharing tools
This will ensure participation
Aggregation of resources in an
intelligent manner is the key to
Knowledge Management

FUTURE
Virtual classrooms
Clustering of information
Generation of useful ideas from
raw data/information

The final thing

Crowd sourcing
of ideas to solve
Railways
problems

Integration of
efforts of
researchers,
practitioners
and enthusiasts.

Discussion and Q&A