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Government of India SAFETY COUNCIL

6th Edition

Changing face of Indian

Railways – Rail Modernization
on the Fast Track
10 — 11 November 2022
Le Meridien, New Delhi
www.india-railway.com
Indian Railways – Limitless Opportunities

India has the fourth-largest railway system in the world, following the US, Russia and China. As of FY21, the Indian
Railways had 13,452 passenger trains and 9,141 freight trains. As of FY21, it had a total route network of 68,103 kms.
Indian Railways has logged the highest ever electrification of sections covering 6,015 Route Kilometer (RKM) in a single
year during 2020-21. More than 5 times electrification was achieved during (2014-21) last seven years as compared to
during 2007-14. By 2024, Indian railways will be run completely on electricity.
Private sector companies are being encouraged to par-
ticipate in rail projects, which were largely in the public
domain. The cabinet approved ‘participative models for
rail-connectivity and capacity augmented projects’, which
allowed private ownership of some railway lines. Indian
manufacturers, under the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiative,
are being urged to develop an alternative to high-tech ma-
chines that are needed to build high-speed rail speedily for
the country’s first high-speed rail corridor connecting Ah-
medabad and Mumbai. As part of the National Rail Plan for
2030, Indian Railways is expected to create a future-ready
railway system by 2030 to bring down logistics cost and
ensure 100% electrification of broad rail routes by Decem-
ber 2023.

Indian Railways is developing and creating technology

in areas such as signaling and telecommunication with
15,000 kms being converted into automatic signaling and
37,000 kms to be fitted with ‘KAVACH’, the domestically
developed Train Collision Avoidance System. Metro rail pro-
jects are being envisaged across many cities over the next
ten years.
COURTESY: MAKE IN INDIA, IBEF

About Rail India Conference and Expo

Now in its 6th year - Messe Frankfurt’s Rail India Confer-
ence and Expo has established itself as the premier event
for the railway sector in the Indian market. It provides an
excellent knowledge exchange platform and the most
ideal meeting place for the experts and professionals in
the rail sector from all over the world, to share the latest
trends, developments in the industry and modern ideas on
industry related infrastructure, safety and other potential
fields of improvement. The conference shall feature tech-
nical sessions, presentations, and table-top exhibits, and
will open up new avenues for learning about the modern
technologies and prospects in the Indian Railway sector
through wide networking sessions. A mini tabletop exhibi-
tion is organized in parallel with the conference as well as
multiple networking opportunities.
Attendee Profile
Railway Board Indian Railway Zones

Railway Production Units Rail PSU’s / SPV’s

Rail Equipment Manufacturers Technology Solution Providers

Locomotive Manufacturers Rolling Stock Manufactures

Signaling and Telecommunication Solution Providers Construction and Engineering Firms, EPC

Financial Institutions, Investors Industry Analysts/Consultants

Government Agencies Land Use and Management Planning Experts

Security, Surveillance, Access Control System Providers Logistics Firms

Rail India in numbers

5 750+ 150+ 280+

Companies/
Editions Attendee Speakers Organization
(2016 - 2021)

Consolidated Attendee Composition: 2016 to 2021

Metro Rail corporations 1.6%
Railway production units 6.5%

Rail PSU’s /other Govt. agencies Equipment/Material/

19% Technology solutions
35.8%

Railway zones 21.6% EPC 4.2%

Project Financing/Consulting 4%
Others 7.3%

Indian Railways 48.7% Private Sector 51.3%

 Key Sessions 2022
• Indian Railway Project Updates, Achievements & Policy Support
• Digitalization on the Rise in Indian Railways
• Rail and Metro Rail Infrastructure Financing & Asset Monetization
• Rolling stock-Advancements with “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” Vision
• Metro Rail Developments
• Railway Infrastructure-Setting New Milestones
• Financing Construction & Project Implementation: Scope & Opportunities with PPP- BOOT Model
• Business and Investment Opportunities in Metro Projects
• Electrification & Advanced Signalling Systems: Towards Safer & More Efficient Railway System
• Intelligent Urban Rail Transit Systems
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Simulation: Latest Technologies to Enhance Operational Efficiency

Partners 2022

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Speakers 2022
Kishore Kumar Rajiv Gandhi
Principal Executive Executive Director,
Director/EE (RS), Estt.(RRB),
Railway Board, Railway Board,
Ministry of Railways Ministry of Railways
Anjum Parwez Rajesh Prasad
Managing Director, Director (Operations),
Bangalore Metro Rail Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd.
Corporation Ltd. (RVNL)
(BMRCL)
Sanjay Kumar Hajime TANIGUCHI
Chairman, Senior Representative
Railway Recruitment India Office,
Board Japan International
Cooperation Agency
(JICA)
Sharat Sahai Mathur Vijay Devnath
Group General Manager - Group General Manager
CCCO, (Infrastructure & Security)
Centre for Railway & CISO,
Information Systems Centre for Railway
(CRIS) Information Systems
(CRIS)
Sudhendu J. Sinha
Adviser (Infrastructure
Connectivity – Transport and
Electric Mobility),
NITI Aayog
Anil Vij
Director (Technical),
Rail India Technical and
Economic Service Ltd.
(RITES)
Rohit Yajnik
AVP-Non Fare Revenue,
Mumbai Metro One Pvt.
Ltd. (MMOPL)
Brajesh Mishra
Joint General Manager
/Signal & Telecom,
Delhi Metro Rail
Corporation Ltd.
(DMRC)
Anjali Goyal
General Manager,
Banaras Locomotive
Works (BLW)
Nanduri Srinivas
Director (Operation and
Business Development),
Dedicated Freight Corridor
Corporation of India Ltd.
(DFCCIL)
Vaibhav Parashar
Member of Board of
Committee,
All India Rail Safety
Council
Harsh Raj
Sr.DGM / Transit Oriented
Development,
National Capital Region
Transport Corporation
(NCRTC)
Nirdosh Gupta
IRSEE - Jt Chief Electrical
Engineer,
Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail
H. K. Raghu
Sr. Professor Rolling Stock,
Indian Railways Institute of
Transport Management
Vivek Rai Garg Dev Mangal
Managing Director, Director (Region) & Head -
MELPL - JV Of Alstom Railway Systems Business,
and IR India & South Asia (BU),
Hitachi India Private Ltd.

Preetam Ganguly Bharat Salhotra Davinder Sandhu Tejinder Gupta

Sales & Marketing Director & President, Senior Advisor – Executive Director -
Head Mergers & Acquisitions Insightzz Infrastructure, Public Sector,
Transit Business (Faiveley The World Bank Grant Thornton Bharat LLP
Transport),
Wabtec Corporation India

Anant Tewari Milind Nirmal Karan Sethi Shailendra Kumar

General Manager - Executive Director-Asia Assistant Vice President, Technical Consultant ,
Railway SBU, Pacific, Invest India SYSTRA
KEC International Ltd. Deutsche Bahn
Engineering and
Consulting

S N Bhat Aditya Khakse S K Suri

Head of Sales – Manager- Merger & Former General
Transport, Acquisitions, Manager,
Nokia Enterprises OfBusiness Rail Coach Factory,
Kapurthala
Agenda 2022*

Thursday, 10 November 2022 DAY 1

08:30 – 09:30 Delegate Registration and Tea

Inaugural Session

Opening Ceremony
09:30 – 09:45
Inaugural Lamp Lighting ; Welcome note by Messe Frankfurt

Inaugural Address by
Hon. Guest of Honor – Indian Railways Project Updates & Achievements

Kishore Kumar, Principal Executive Director/EE (RS), Railway Board, Ministry of Railways
* (Invited)

Recent Updates and a Brief Outlook on Policy Support for Indian Railways Modernization

Sudhendu J. Sinha, Adviser (Infrastructure Connectivity – Transport and Electric Mobility), NITI Aayog

Rail and Metro Rail Infrastructure Financing

09:45 – 11:30
Hajime TANIGUCHI, Senior Representative India Office, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA]

Digitalization on the Rise in Indian Railways

Rajiv Gandhi, Executive Director, Estt.(RRB), Railway Board, Ministry of Railways

Sanjay Kumar, Chairman Railway Recruitment Board

Vijay Devnath, Group General Manager (Infrastructure & Security) & CISO, Centre for Railway
Information Systems (CRIS)

Q&A

11:30 – 11:45 High Tea & Networking Break

Session II - Panel Discussion on Rolling stock – Advancements with “Aatmanirbhar Bharat“ vision

Key Discussion Areas

- Vision and Technology Initiatives of Indian Railway
- Design, Development and Testing
- Latest Innovations
- Indian Railway- R&D Engagement
- Development of Rolling Stock for Export Markets

Moderator
- Shailendra Kumar, Technical Consultant , SYSTRA
11:45 – 12:50 Panellists
- Kishore Kumar, Principal Executive Director/EE (RS), Railway Board, Ministry of Railways
- Anil Vij, Director (Technical) RITES Ltd.
- Vivek Rai Garg, Managing Director - MELPL - JV Of Alstom and IR
- Dev Mangal, Director, (Region) & Head, Railway Systems Business, India & South Asia (BU),
Hitachi India Private Ltd.
- Preetam Ganguly, Sales & Marketing Director & Head Mergers & Acquisitions Transit Business
(Faiveley Transport), Wabtec Corporation India

Q&A
12:50 – 13:05 Knowledge Partner Presentation

13:05 – 14:05 Networking Lunch

Session III - Railway Infrastructure – Setting new milestones

Rail Freight: Recent Developments in Dedicated Freight Corridor Projects

Nanduri Srinivas, Director- Operation and Business Development - Dedicated Freight Corridor

Technology Development: Indian Railways Enterprise Architecture

14:05 – 15:10 Sharat Sahai Mathur, Group General Manager, CCCO

Indian Railways - On The Track Of Transformation

Karan Sethi, Assistant Vice President, Invest India

Q&A

Special Session by Milind Nirmal , Executive Director-Asia Pacific, Deutsche Bahn Engineering
15:10 – 15:25 and Consulting on ”German initiative for strengthening railway infrastructure as a case study
along with a summary of potential learning for India.”

Session IV - Financing, Construction and Project Implementation : Scope and opportunities

with PPP - BOOT model
Topic Awaiting

Rajesh Prasad, Director (Operations), Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. (RVNL)

Financing the Metro Lite : A new perspective

Hirendra Kumar Raghu, Sr. Professor (Rolling Stock), Indian Railways Institute of Transport
15:25 – 16:30
Management (NRTI)

PPP in railway projects – Policy and Practice for success

Davinder Sandhu, Senior Advisor , DB Engineering & Consulting | The World Bank

Q&A

16:30 – 17:00 Networking high tea ; End of Conference day 1 program

Friday, 11 November 2022 DAY 2

9:30 – 10:00 Delegate Registration and Tea

Keynote Session on Metro Rail Developments

10:00 – 10:20
Anjum Parwez, Managing Director, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL)

Safety Partner Presentation

10:20 – 10:35
Vaibhav Parashar, Member of Board of Committee, All India Rail Safety Council (AIRSC)
 Session V - Electrification and Advanced Signalling Systems : Towards Safer and More Efficient
Railway system

Electrification - Technological Innovations, Third Rail (Electric Rail)

Nirdosh Gupta, IRSEE - Jt Chief Electrical Engineer, Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail (UPMRC) of India Limited

Electronic Interlocking (EI)

10:35 – 11:40 Anant Tewari, General Manager, Railway SBU, KEC International Ltd

4G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) based mobile technology

S N Bhat, Head of Sales – Transport, Nokia Enterprises

Q&A

11:40 – 11:55 High Tea & Networking Break

Session VI - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Simulation: Latest technologies to enhance operational
efficiency

Driverless Metro Operations

Brajesh Mishra, Joint General Manager /Signal & Telecom, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited
(DMRC)

Passenger Reservation System

Tejinder Gupta, Executive Director-Public Sector, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP

11:55 – 13:20 New Era of Travel in Railways: Smart Coaches with Predictive Maintenance

Aditya Khakse, Manager- Merger & Acquisitions, OfBusiness

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Simulation: Latest technologies to enhance operational efficiency

Bharat Salhotra, President, Insightzz

Q&A

13:20 – 14:20 Networking Lunch Break

Session VII - Intelligent Urban Rail transit systems

RRTS Project: Transit oriented development and NCRTC learnings

Harsh Raj, Sr.DGM / Transit Oriented Development, National Capital Region Transport
Corporation(NCRTC)

Enhancing Non Fare Revenue through various opportunities in Metro Rail Projects
14:20 – 15:25
Rohit Yajnik, AVP-Non Fare Revenue, Mumbai Metro One Pvt. Ltd.

Maglev and Hyperloop - 500 KMPH & 1000 KMPH Trains

S K Suri, Former General Manager, Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala

Q&A

15:25 – 16:00 End of Conference; Concluding Remarks & High Tea Networking

*Proposed session topics; subject to update based on Speaker Panel recommendations

 Past Speakers*

Railway Board

Vinod Kumar Yadav A. K. Mital Ashwani Lohani Arunendra Kumar

Chairman, Chairman, Chairman, Former Chairman,
Railway Board Railway Board Railway Board Railway Board

Rajesh Agrawal A K Mittal Ghanshyam Singh Ravindra Gupta

Member (Rolling Stock), Member (Engineering), Member (Traction), Member (Rolling Stock),
Railway Board, Railway Board Railway Board Railway Board

Manju Gupta A. K. Agrawal

Additional Member Director General
(Electrical), (Signalling &
Railway Board Telecommunication),
Railway Board

Railway Zones

Rajiv Agrawal Girish Pillai

General Manager, General Manager,
North Eastern Railway West Central Railways

*Kindly note: The speakers mentioned herewith held the above designations during their participation at the previous editions of Rail India Conference & Expo.
 Past Speakers*

Railway Production Units

Satish K. Kashyup Rashmi Goel Sudhanshu Mani A. K. Agarwal

General Manager, General Manager, General Manager (Retd.), General Manager,
Chittaranjan Locomotive Diesel Locomotive Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Integral Coach Factory
Works (CLW) Works (DLW) Team Leader – Train 18 (ICF)

Railway PSU’s / SPV’s

Sudhir Kr. Saxena Ved Parkash Dudeja Mukesh Nigam S. K. Lohia

Chief Executive Officer, Vice Chairman, Managing Director, Managing Director & Chief
Railway Energy Management Rail Land Development Centre for Railway Executive Officer, Indian Rail-
Co. Ltd. (REMCL) Authority (RLDA) Information Systems way Stations Development
(CRIS) Corporation Limited (IRSDC)

Anurag Sachan Puneet Chawla H. K. Raghu Nanduri Srinivas

Managing Director, Chairman and Managing Director, Executive Director - Urban Director,
Dedicated Freight RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. Transport & High Speed (Operations & BD),
Corridor Corporation of Directorate, Research De- Dedicated Freight Corridor
India (DFCCIL) signs & Standards Organi- Corporation of India (DFCCIL)
sation (RDSO)

Rajesh Prasad Abhay Bakre B. V. Rao

Director (Operations), Director General, Principal Chief Security
Rail Vikas Nigam Limited Bureau of Energy Commissioner/RPF,
(RVNL) Efficiency (BEE) Research Designs & Standards
Organisation (RDSO)

*Kindly note: The speakers mentioned herewith held the above designations during their participation at the previous editions of Rail India Conference & Expo.
 Past Speakers*
Metro Rail Corporations

Mangu Singh Prashant Rao Ajaykumar A. Bhatt

Managing Director, Director (Systems, Director (Systems),
Delhi Metro Rail Electrical & Rolling Stock), Mumbai Metro Rail
Corporation (DMRC) Gujarat Metro Rail Corp. Corporation Ltd. (MMRCL)
Ltd.

Rail Technology Solutions (Private Sector)

Rajeev Jyoti Narendra K. Ashar Dirk Junghans Ashok K. Agarwal Subrat Nath
Chief Executive - General Manager, Managing Director, Director, Director India & Asia
Railway Business, Railway Systems Business Liebherr-Transporation Vossloh Rail Services Pacific,
Larsen & Toubro (L & T) Unit, Hitachi India Systems Talgo

Ramakrishnan Anand Sirohi Praveen Goyal Manish Mandal Vishwajeet Singh

Venkataraman Director - Key Accounts Director - Systems, System Expert, European Sr. Technology Specialist,
Area Sales Director, & Large Projects, SYSTRA Train Control Systems Ansys Software
Dassault System Trimble (ETCS), Siemens Mobility

International Speakers

H. E. Milan Hovorka Katsuo Matsumoto Jean-Marc FENET Milan Dostal

Ambassador of Czech Chief Representative India, Minister-Counsellor, Commercial Economic
Republic to India Japan International Head of the Regional Counsellor,
Cooperation Agency (JICA) Economic Embassy of the Czech
Dept., Embassy of France Republic

Dr. Andrea Giuricin Vladimir A. Finov

CEO, Head of representative
TRA Consulting office in India,
RZD International LLC
*Kindly note: The speakers mentioned herewith held the above designations during their participation at the previous editions of Rail India Conference & Expo.
Among Participant Companies at Rail india (2016 - 2021)

• Alstom • Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.

• BHEL • National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd.
• Bonatrans India Pvt Ltd • North Central Railway
• Central Railway • North East Frontier Railway
• CG Power and Industrial Solutions Lt • North Eastern Railway
• Chiraranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) • North Western Railway
• CIDCO • Northern Railway
• CONCOR • Parker Hannifin India Pvt Ltd.
• CORE • Rail Coach Factory
• Crisil Infrastructure Advisory • Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA)
• Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India • Rail Wheel Factory
• Diesel Loco Modernisation Works (DMW) • Railtel Corporation of India Ltd
• DMRC • Railway Energy Management Co. Ltd. (Remcl)
• East Central Railway • Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO)
• East Coast Railway • RITES Ltd
• Eastern Railway • RVNL
• Embassy of Czech Republic • RZD International LLC (Russian Railways)
• Embassy of Republic of Korea to India • SAIL
• Gujarat Metro Rail Corp. Ltd • Serto
• Hilti (India) Pvt. Ltd • Siemens Limited
• Hitachi High-Technologies India Pvt Ltd • South Central Railway
• Howe Engineering Projects (India) Pvt. Ltd • South East Central Railway
• HYT Engineering Co. Pvt. Ltd. • South Eastern Railway
• ICT (P) Ltd. • South Western Railway
• Integral Coach Factory (ICF) • Southern Railway
• IRCON • Steel Authority Of India Limited
• IROAF • Talgo
• Japan International Cooperation Agency • TATA Steel
• Jindal Steel & Power Limited • Tata Steel Limited
• Kolkata Metro • Technology Mission for Indian Railways
• Konkan Railway • Thales India
• L&T Infrastructure Engineering Ltd. • Trimble Navigation India Pvt. Ltd.
• Larsen & Toubro • Vossloh
• Matrix Comsec • West Central Railway
• Ministry Of Railways (Railway Board) • Western Railway
• Mitsubishi Electric India Private Limited • World Bank
• Modern Coach Factory • Many Others
Past Partners, Exhibitors
Testimonials
Delighted to attend this physical conference by Messe
Frankfurt after a long time. I am thankful for the
opportunity they have given me to speak on some of
the initiatives we are taking in locomotives.
Locomotives business is poised to grow very fast and
we are aiming to produce 1000 locomotives every
year and we want industry to come up with latest
technology and products which are as good as the
imported ones. We are still sourcing some
components from overseas and we want
our locos to be 100% indigenised.
Shri Satish K. Kashyup
General Manager,
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW)
This is the first physical conference I have
attended in the last one year. It’s actually a very
good experience after a series of webinars and video
conferences. Its very refreshing and exciting to meet
people and sharing my experiences and ideas in
person.
Shri Nanduri Srinivas
Director
(Operations & BD),
DFCCIL
I am very glad to see Messe Frankfurt organizing this
conference. India has faced a lot of challenges during
this Covid period and the infrastructure industry
has now bounced back to the pre Covid times, the
progress in various fields be it civil engineering, IT,
communications has risen to the past levels. During
Covid, IT has played a great role in enabling the
recovery, broadband and video conferencing services
have played a very big role in helping the industry
and economy on the whole to bounce back.
Shri Puneet Chawla
Chairman and Managing Director,
RailTel Corporation of India Ltd.
I would like to thank and congratulate Messe Frankfurt
for organizing this wonderful conference. This is the
first conference I have attended after one year of
pandemic. It has been organized very beautifully
with the most relevant sessions.
This is the forum where private and government
sector comes together and share their experiences
and knowledge as Prime Minister Narendra Modi
envisioned making India a USD 5 trillion economy.
I think this kind of conference will take us a long
way and I wish them all the best.
Shri Anurag Sachan
Former Managing Director,
Dedicated Freight Corridor
Corporation of India DFCCIL
This is a very wonderful conference organized by
Messe Frankfurt. Its going to be very useful for the
rail manufacturers, consultants, MSMEs, for people
who are working in Invest India Program to make
India Atmanirbhar and fulfil the dream of Hon’ble
Prime Minister. This is a great initiative by Rail India
and will definitely bring lot many developments and
improvements in the country.
Mr. VR Sharma
Managing Director,
Jindal Steel & Power Limited
New Normal has already become old and today’s
conference is one such initiative and we are feeling
proud to have such conferences again on track. It is
a kind of situation where we will have to work extra
to achieve extra as the entire world has been affected
because of the pandemic, we have taken the steps
in our organization and are fully committed to bring
back the rail infrastructure.
Shri Rajesh Prasad
Director (Operations),
Rail Vikas Nigam
Limited (RVNL)
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