After Lecturing management students from the Harvard and Wharton business schools on his successful turnaround strategy for pulling Indian Railways out of the red, 'management guru' Lalu Prasad is now set to deliver a talk on the same subject to a group of senior civil servants, diplomats and armed forces officials from the United States.
The group of 14 people, who are participating in a course for senior officials at the National Defence University of Washington, led by two proferssors from the institution, will meet the Railway Minister on May 1 during their visit to India, according to sources.
"This is not just about running the Railways. We are establishing a new paradigm of government," said a top official at the Railway Ministry Senior bureaucrats and service officials are keen to study how the Indian Railways has become a growth model suiting the socio-economic conditions of a vast developing country like India, he added.
(Source- Hindustan Times, 18/04/07)
