Minister
of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated Indian Railways’ 1st HR
Round Table Conference here today. Chairman, Railway Board, Shri A. K.
Mital, Member Staff Shri Pradeep Kumar, other Railway Board Members and senior
officials were also present on the occasion.
On the occasion, Minister for Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar
Prabhu said that Railway is a large organisation & for every big
organisation, it is necessary to revisit the basic issues, introspect them and
bring a change to be competitive, versatile & efficient. People in the
organisation has to take a decision of change. Organisational change can happen
only if the shortcomings are realised. Railways is a complex organization. It
has commercial role, social role and welfare role and has to meet expectations
of people which are unique and conflicting. It also has to play a role of
national transporter. Railways is the most important strategic asset of
country. It is important for economic, social aspect which cannot be
overlooked. Organisation must constantly revisit its objective and try to cater
to the needs of people. For development of Railways, people in the organisation
should be created to face the challenges. Railways need to clearly define the
corporate goals, it should create the organised structure then it should place
the right people in the organisation. The change should start from the top
level so it should be discernible to the people. Railways as an organisation
should cater to the larger corporate goals, corporate goals should cater to
societal priorities. The action & attention should be at Divisional level,
Railway Divisions as a business unit should be a focal point of the changes.
Chairman Railway Board Shri AK Mital said that In all other
organization the cost of employees is around 30% whereas in Indian Railways it
is 60% of the operation cost. The need of the hour is to increase the earning
so that the cost of employees will go down which will be possible only when
efficiency & output of each & every employees will improve.
Background
Indian Railways is the
biggest civilian employer in the country spanning the length and breadth of the
sub-continent within strength of over 13 lakh employees. The employees are
spread over 10 departments in 17 Zones, 6 Production Units and 68 Divisions.
The service of the Indian Railways are 24X7 and the work content varies from
high precision engineering to customer interface and train operations with many
departments working in a coordinated manner. Improving the productivity of the
human resources through inter-change of ideas with various stakeholders and HR
practitioners and academics is the aim of the Conference. The Conference was
organized around three themes i.e.
(i) Stakeholders
Expectations from HR.
(ii) The Future
of Work – HR Role
(iii) Creativity
Within Constraints
Each theme was in form
of a Roundtable discussion amongst HR experts and leaders of industry
including:
1. Ms. Naina
Lal Kidwai, CEO HSBC India
2. Mr. Dinesh
K. Sarraf, CMD ONGC
3. Mr. A.K.
Balyan, Ex. MD & CEO Petronet LNG Ltd.
4. Dr. Santrupt
Misra, CEO Carbon Black Business & Director Group HR, Aditya Birla,
5. Mr. Pankaj
Bansal, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, PeopleStrong,
6. Mr. T.K.
Srirang, Sr. GM, HR Head, ICICI Bank
7. Mr. S. Roy
Choudhury, Director HR, Vodafone India Ltd.
8. Mr. Ayaskant
Sarangi, Sr. Vice President, Human Resources, Wipro technologies
9. Mr. Sunil
Kumar Maheshwari, Professor, IIM, Ahmedabad
10. Dr. P.
Dwarakanath, Advisor, HR Max India Ltd.
11. Mr. S. Roy,
Director HR, NTPC
12. Mr. S.Y.
Siddiqui, Chief Mentor, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.
13. Mr. Yogi
Sriram, HR Head, L&T.
The valedictory was
conducted by Dr. Pritam Singh, well-known management Guru who has set up
IIM/Lucknow and was associated with MDI/Gurgaon amongst other organization.
The participants came
from all parts of the country including Ministry of Railways and its public
sector organizations who actively participated in the Question Answer
Sessions. The young probationary officers were also exposed to the above
themes which will help them achieve more and contribute more in their future
work as HR Manager on the Indian Railways.
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