Indian Railways extends pact with IIT Kanpur for modernisation of infrastructure

Indian Railways has signed an MoU with IIT Kanpur to encourage a state of the art collaborative research for modernization of the Railways.

The Indian Railways has extended the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur to encourage a state of the art collaborative research for modernisation of railway infrastructure and efficient utilisation of its scientific assets through the Centre for Railway Research (CRR). The MoU was signed between Alka Arora Misra, Principal executive director (T&MPP), Ministry of Railways and Professor AR Harish, Dean, R&D, IIT-Kanpur in the presence of chairman and CEO, Railway Board, Vinod Kumar Yadav and IIT Kanpur director Prof Abhay Karandikar.

Professor Abhay Karandikar during the ceremony spoke on the importance of this collaboration in the context of modernisation of Indian Railways for the development of cutting edge technologies in electronics, sensor networks, power electronics and electrical safety. He also spoke at length about the related research and development work being carried out at IIT Kanpur in the domain areas of relevance to Indian Railways.

Professor Karandikar further said that the MoU will facilitate research in the core areas of electrical locomotive, locomotive control and communication systems, traction installation, condition-based monitoring, train and track safety using signal processing, power and vehicle control electronics, driver interface systems, train level sensor networks and IoT, electrical safety, network control and staff training in related technical areas through the CRR at IIT-Kanpur.

Currently, CRR, which has its administrative unit in the department of electrical engineering in IIT-Kanpur, has been assigned the broad research domain of loco research and propulsion technologies, traction installation/OHE and associated electronics.

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