OREANDA-NEWS. June 01, 2015. The Ministry of Railways has decided to set up the ‘Technology Mission for Indian Railways’(TMIR) as a consortium of Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Industries on an investment sharing model for taking up identified railway projects for applied research and use on Indian Railways.

The ‘Technology Mission for Indian Railways’ (TMIR) will function through the ‘Mission Implementation and coordination committee’ (MICC), consisting of the following:-

(a) Prof. N.S.Vyas, former Head/Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Kanpur and presently Vice Chancellor/Rajasthan Technical University—Mission Chairman

(b) Shri Alok Kumar, Exe. Director/CE(G), Railway Board—Co-Chairman

(C) Nominees of Ministry of Railways, RDSO, Railway Research Centres, Ministry of HRD, Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Industries – Members

The ‘Mission Implementation and Coordination Committee’ (MICC) will formulate the ‘Mission Management Manual’ (MMM) for functioning of ‘TMIR’ and the domain specific Sub-Committees for various fields of railway working and also for monitoring the progress of research and technology projects.

‘ TMIR’ will also monitor progress of research projects of the existing Railway Research Centre (RRC)/Kharagpur and other 4 upcoming Railway Research Centres sanctioned in Budget 2015-16. Thus, Railways’ investment in applied research activities will be fruitfully converted to technology development for actual use in railway working. Execution of various projects under ‘TMIR’ will be dealt in terms of procedures, to be defined in its ‘Mission Management Manual (MMM)’.

The Nodal Directorate for functioning o the ‘Technology Mission for Indian Railways’ (TMIR) and its ‘Mission Implementation and coordination Committee’ (MICC) will be Efficiency & Research Directorate of Railway Board.