{"id":8959,"date":"2023-01-01T07:07:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T07:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irctcportal.in\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2023-01-01T07:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T07:07:53","slug":"indias-first-railway-university-in-vadodara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/indias-first-railway-university-in-vadodara\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first Railway University in Vadodara"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><em>National Academy of Indian Railways (formerly Railway Staff College), Vadodara where the proposed Railway University is being planned to be set up by Centre<\/em><\/footer>\n<footer>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\">India\u2019s first Railway University in Vadodara<\/h2>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Vadodara (BRC):\u00a0Railways is speedily working on setting up the first Railway university of the country. The university will come up at Vadodara in Gujarat. The Educational Consultants India Limited (EdCIL), a public sector unit of the Human Resource Development ministry is finalising the project.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The proposed university will have its main campus at the National Academy of Indian Railways at Vadodara.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The academy is considered as the alma mater for the officers of the Railways. It is situated in a sprawling campus of 55 acres of the Pratap Vilas Palace at Lalbaug in Vadodara. It provides training to all levels of Indian Railway officers, from probationers to general managers.<\/p>\n<p>The academy was founded in 1930 at Dehradun and then shifted to its present regal sylvan surroundings at Vadodara, in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have satellite centres of the proposed university at Secunderabad (Telangana), Jamalpur (Bihar) and Pune (Maharashtra),\u201d said a high official of Ministry of Railway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is to promote study and research related to railways. We will be collaborating with Indian as well as foreign universities. We are in touch with a Chinese university situated in Beijing,\u201d said the official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese university has specialisation in railway research. We are also in the process of collaborating with the Urbana University in USA. The university is pioneer in railway related research,\u201d he added. The project for establishing centres for railway research is also in its advanced stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Academy of Indian Railways (formerly Railway Staff College), Vadodara where the proposed Railway University is being planned to be set up by Centre India\u2019s first Railway University in Vadodara Vadodara (BRC):\u00a0Railways is speedily working on setting up the first Railway university of the country. The university will come up at Vadodara in Gujarat. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[726],"tags":[877,878,879],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-railways","tag-first-railway-university-in-vadodara","tag-indias-first-railway-university","tag-indias-first-railway-university-in-vadodara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}