At the initiative of the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, as an unprecedented milestone mega exercise, involving the entire organization at all levels, Indian Railways is organizing a 3 day Rail Vikas Shivir (Rail Development Camp) at Surajkund near New Delhi, from 18th November 2016 to 20th November 2016 with a view to generate numerous innovative yet practical ideas across most critical areas of Railway Operations for substantial progress of this sector. This is for the first time in the 163 year of Indian Railways that such a Brainstorming and planning exercise with multistage and multidimensional dialogue at this large scale is taking place involving all Railway Employees from gangmen to Railway Board Chairman, cutting across hierarchies. This Shivir is significantly different from other Railway conferences in the sense that here not only external speakers are sharing what Railways should do but rather Railway Employees belonging to all levels themselves are also being encouraged to contribute to present new ideas and to be part of the decision making process. This Shivir will help in creating a vision for Indian Railways that every employee relates to and will reflect business aspirations and societal commitments of Indian Railways. 
●    The Shivir is being hailed as a watershed in the history of Indian Railways and its outcome are likely to take Indian Railways on the rapid path of rejuvenation, transformation, modernization, efficiency and productivity not seen before with a view to make Indian Railways a world class Railway system. 
●    The high point of the Shivir will be when the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi himself will speak up his mind on the rail sector for country’s economic growth on the first day of the Shivir and give his directions and guidance setting the agenda for this mega event. The address of the Prime Minister will be done through video conferencing between PMO New Delhi and the Shivir venue at Surajkund. Prime Minister will be present personally again to have a detailed interaction with the participants on the concluding day of the Shivir. 
●    Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, who has in the last two and half years undertaken slew of major reforms, restructuring, initiatives, innovations and paradigm system improvement to fulfill the Prime Minister’s vision on Railways, is spearheading and guiding the organizing of this momentous Shivir along with his colleagues, Minister of State for Railways & Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications Shri Manoj Sinha and Minister of State for Railways Shri Rajen Gohain. 
●    Many from the Union Council of Ministers have also been invited on the concluding day of the Shivir. The other invitees on the concluding day include some select Secretaries to Government of India, senior officials from Prime Minister’s Office & Cabinet Secretariat and senior officials of NITI Aayog. The Vikas Shivir is aiming at the following aspects
 

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