Vendor registration streamlined
Indian Railways has made a significant move by engaging with Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to leverage their core competencies in developing new technologies and products.
It has also signed MoUs (Memorandum of Understanding) with these institutes for establishing Centres of Railway Research (CRRs), said the Ministry of Railways in a year-end update for 2018.
The research domains allocated to these CRRs’, based on their competencies, are:
IIT Madras – Signaling & Communication,
IIT Kanpur – Loco propulsion technologies, Traction Installtion/OHE
IIT Roorkee – Track, Bridges, Structures
Mumbai University – Financial management, human resource management and Operation research.
A number of steps have been taken by Research Design and Standards Organization (RDSO) for streamlining new vendor registration process.
The process of vendor registration has been made completely online and there has been reduction in average time of fresh registration cases from existing 30 months to 6 months.
Expression of Interests (EOIs) has been floated by RDSO open for application throughout the year.
Hence suppliers based outside Lucknow, now have the provision of online vendor registration application and the whole process of registration is completed within a specific timeline.
There was also an emphasis to resolve all the pending vendor registration cases in within reasonable time frame. There were 691 old pending cases initially by October’17 which have been brought down to 98 by December’18.
‘SAMANVAY’ Portal for co-ordination with State Governments: A ‘SAMANVAY’ portal (www.railsamanvay.co.in) has been developed for online reporting of issues pending with State Governments pertaining to infrastructural developmental projects which are being undertaken by different Railway agencies.
Concerned State Governments were requested to go through the pending issues of Railways in States which are uploaded on SAMANVAY portal and take needful action to help Railway expedite its developmental/expansion projects, said the year end review. fiinews.com
