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

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 Conso

rtium
National Archives of India

IRITM
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

Knowledge Officer, nominee of Director General/Director

IRICEN- Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering,Pune
IRIMEEIndian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering,Jamalpu
IRIEENIndian Railways Institute of Electrical Engineering,Nasik
r
IRISET- Indian Railways Institute of Signal and Telecommunications E
ngineering,Secunderabad
IRITM- Indian Railways Institute of Transportation Management,Lucknow
IRITM
IRITM

Operations
Commercial
Safety
General Management
Operations Research
Materials
Management
National Academy of Indian Railways, Vadodara
HR Management
Finance
Security
Law, Vigilance
Medical

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