Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu today launched Indian Railway Knowledge Portal namely www.kportal.indianrailways.gov.in which has aggregated most of the available knowledge about Indian Railways at one location and has also tried to encompass as much knowledge as possible, by linking websites, documents etc. for dissemination of knowledge on Indian Railways.
This portal is an initiative of the National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR), Vadodara. This portal is an aggregation of information, with links to resources of the Indian Railways, for the purpose of dissemination of knowledge, innovations and best practices. This initiative is in line with the “Digital India” campaign of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Portal was launched through video-conferencing established between Ministry of Railways, Rail Bhawan and NAIR Headquarters at Vadodara. Chairman, Railway Board A.K. Mital, and DG, NAIR S. Mookerjee also spoke on the occasion from Vadodara end. Railway Board Members were among those present at the New Delhi end whereas GM, Western Railways G. C. Agrawal was present at Vadodara end.
