Sam Pitroda: Head of Expert Panel on Modernization of Railways

Government has constituted an expert committee headed by Sam Pitroda to recommend ways and means to modernize Indian Railways. The focus of the panel, which is to submit its interim report in December, will be on modernization of tracks, signalling, rolling stock, stations and terminals. The members of this committee are Deepak Parekh, HDFC Bank chairman, M S Verma, former SBI chairman, Raghuram, professor at IIM- Ahmedabad, Rajiv Lal, IDFC managing director, and Vinayak Chatterjee, chairman of Feedback Infrastructure Services.