Panaji/Margao : Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Saturday said by early next year all tendering for Indian Railways will be done online.
Speaking in Margao after flagging off Rajdhani Express connecting Goa to New Delhi, Prabhu also promised online examinations for railway recruitment.”By the end of this year, or earliest, in the early part of next year everything will be on the internet. All contracts will be on e-tendering platform,” he said, reports PTI.
“We are trying to ensure that whole process of the railways will be transparent. All examinations which people used to give, there were a lot of complaints about wrongdoing. Now we have started online examinations and the idea would be all examinations will be made online,” the minister said.
Tendering in the Railways used to earlier take sometimes six years, especially for large tenders, Prabhu said. “My colleagues in the Railways Board tell me that earlier when a project was announced, it would take six years for a tender to be issued…The time gap has been reduced to six months. My target is to reduce it even further and make it completely transparent,” he added.
