* If IR is organiser of ‘Global Technology Conference’, then who have stopped it to participate in the event??
* IR is not participating because it does not have any state of the art technological development worthy to showcase before the world railway fraternity. By world standards, R&D in IR can at the best be called "Mediocre" which only the under developed and a few developing countries think is good enough for them.
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It is better to acquire off the shelf technology else IR shall continue to lag in technology and gradually head towards obsolescence.
* Indian scientists, technologists, engineers have played a vital role in innovation capital of the world(USA), and are second to none. But the funding, infrastructural support and general environment for R&D in our country is lacking.
* In most of the organisations, Design, Research, & development sections are considered as loop lines with no/little scope for promotion & growth.