Launch of Rail Tech Portal to Engage Innovators, Startups, Industry and Institutions to Promote Innovation in Indian Railways and Digitization of Procedures in Claims Tribunal Announced as Third & Fourth Reform

• Rail Tech Portal (3rd reform) + e-RCT end-to-end digitisation of Railway Claims Tribunal (4th reform) launched by Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw under the Ministry of Railways' "52 Reforms in 52 Weeks" initiative.
• Twin focus: (i) open-innovation pipeline for startups/academia into Indian Railways via the Rail Tech Policy, and (ii) judicial-tech reform to ease accident/untoward-incident claim filing for litigants.
• Relevant for GS-II (Governance, e-Governance, Tribunals) and GS-III (Science & Tech, Infrastructure, Innovation Ecosystem).