Major boost to Ease of Doing Business in Railways

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New Delhi : In order to boost Ease of doing Business in Indian Railways, Research Design & Standards Organization (RDSO) under the Railways Ministry is keenly approaching Indian industry through Vendor meets being organized in various cities where senior officers of RDSO interact with the prospective vendors, educate them about the features and ease of using the new online vendor registration system.

The first such vendor meet in coordination with Laghu Udyog Bharti, Rajkot, Gujarat, was organized on January 24, 2018, at Rajkot in which queries/doubts from around 200 vendors present were resolved on the spot by senior officials in a question-answer session.

Similar Vendor meets have since been held at other cities such as Faridabad, Ludhiana, Sahibabad, Coimbatore, Pune and Noida on February 22, 2018, March 7, March 9,  March 15, 2018, April 4 and April 5, 2018 respectively. The efforts are being appreciated by industry. Further such meets are planned in April and May 2018 at seven more places, according to a PIB release. One such meeting is propsed at Patna, Bihar, on April 24, 2018.

As a result of these actions, applications for fresh registration for RDSO items have increased from about 25 (average) per month earlier to 60 (average) per month now.