​ In keeping with his Budget announcement, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday constituted the ‘Kayakalp’ Council and appointed industrialist Ratan Tata as its head.

In, perhaps, a first, the Minister also included two key employee representatives in the council. The Railways has about 1.55 million employees and is considered one of the world’s largest employers.

The purpose of the council is to recommend innovative methods and processes for the improvement, betterment and transformation of the Indian Railways, the Ministry said in a statement. 

This council will be a standing body and will interact with all stakeholders and other interested parties. “It will initially also have Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secretary, All Indian Railwaymen’s Federation and M. Raghavaiah, General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen, the two recognised federations representing the railway employees as members,” according to an official statement. 

The other members of the Council will be announced in due course. 

This setting up of the council was announced by Prabhu while presenting the Railway Budget 2015-16 in Parliament on February 26. “Every dynamic and thriving organisation needs to innovate and re-invent its practices. In accordance with the vision of Prime Minister for Innovation, Technology Development and Manufacturing, the Indian Railways intend to set up an innovation council called “Kayakalp” for the purpose of business re-engineering and introducing a spirit of innovative in Railways” , he had said.

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