- Northeast Frontier Railway (NEFR) won the Best Innovation Award for unique strategy adopted to keep elephants away from the train tracks.
- The Innovation Promotion Group was constituted to interact with national and International Railway Organisations, industries, universities, institutes of repute, Railwaymen, Railway customers and citizens to promote innovations.
- Under this scheme, Board constituted a committee and had approved the following upper limits of awards to be given away at Railway Board level to the best innovations implemented in Indian Railways:-
i) Best Innovation:- Rs.3,00,000/-
ii) Second Best Innovation:- Rs.2,00,000/-
iii) Third Best Innovation:- Rs.1,00,000/-
Published On : 11 Jul 2019
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