National Rail and Transportation Institute

The National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI) is India's first and only transportation university located in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. This institute is presently located inside the lush-green 55-acre campus of Ministry of Railways's apex training institution, National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) as a makeshift arrangement. It is slated to shift to its permanent campus in Waghodiya taluka of Vadodara in the near future, for which the land acquisition has started.

Nation Rail and Transportation Institute
Other name
NRTI
MottoGyaanasya Abhyaasam Kuru
TypeDeemed to be University
Established5 September 2018
EndowmentPublic
ChancellorChairman, Railway Board (Presently Mr. V. K. Yadav)
Vice-ChancellorMrs. Alka Arora Misra (IRPS, interim)
Undergraduates200 (100 + 100)
Address
National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) Campus, Lalbaug, Vadodara - 390 004
,
Vadodara
,
Gujarat
,
India
CampusUrban
Websitehttps://nrti.edu.in

Currently, it is running two state-of-the-art undergraduate programmes -

1. Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Transportation Management

2. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Transportation Technology

At present, it accounts for enrollment of around 200 students from 20 states of India, across two academic years: 2018-2021 and 2019-2022. Once the project is fully executed, it will have close to 3000 full-time residential students on its rolls, across five schools - Management & Leadership; Engineering & Applied Science; Transport Planning & Design; Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences and Transport Policy & Law.

Introduction

The National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), a vision of the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi, is India's first university exclusively focussed on transport-related education, multidisciplinary research and training. A Deemed to be University under the [[de Novo] starting of something new] category, NRTI is specifically established to create a resource pool of best-in-class professionals for the railway and transportation sector.

A unique feature of programmes at NRTI is the using "live laboratories”, the facilities and infrastructure of Indian Railways and associated establishments. The University has forged academic partnerships with ivy league and top-ranked global universities including Cornell University, United States; University of California in Berkeley, United States; Russia University of Transport (MIIT) in Moscow, Russia; University of Birmingham, UK. and St. Petersburg State Transport University.

Board of Management

Course and Curriculum

Both the undergraduate courses, BBA in Transportation Management and BSc in Transportation Technology, run in trimester mode with nine trimesters in total, having a duration of three years and are worth 140 credits.

There are two compulsory internships on offer for practical exposure, one with Indian Railways at the end of first year, and the other one with industry, at the end of sophomore year. In addition, all the undergraduate students compulsorily have to submit a thesis/project at the end of their degree. Syllabus for first year for both the degrees is the same, as it is foundational in nature.

An indicative list of courses:

Foundation - Dynamics of Transportation Ecosystems, Critical Thinking and Writing, Essentials of Business and Technology, Design Thinking, Systems Thinking & Application, Fundamentals of Economics, Environmental Sciences and Sustainability, Ethics, Data Analytics and Representation, Foundations of Leadership and Sociological Contexts of Transportation

Management - Principles of Accounting and Finance, Principles of Marketing, Business Communication, Managerial Economics, Business Analytics Models, Supply Chain Planning and Control, Supply Chain Decision Modelling, Operations Management Strategy, Purchase and Materials Management, Special Topics in Transportation Management

Technology - Principles of Information Systems, Transportation Technologies of the 21st Century, Research Design, Mathematical Modelling, Transportation Models and Quantitative Methods, Dynamic Programming and Decision Processes, Applied Transportation Technology, Special Topics in Transportation Technology

Admissions

Admissions to this institution are only offered via a national-level National Rail and Transportation Institute - Admission Aptitude Test (NRTI-AAT), conducted in the month of June every year.

Eligibility and Process

The eligibility to apply for the academic programmes at NRTI is as follows:

BBA in Transportation Management All Streams (10 + 2 with Math)

BSc in Transportation Technology Science Stream (10 + 2 with Math)

Applicants must have successfully completed their 10 + 2 Board examination with at least 55% marks (50% for OBC/SC/ST) and be below the age of 25 years as on August 1 of the said year of admission.

NRTI follows Government Regulations with respect to reservations, which is as follows:

  • General+EWS - 50.5%
  • OBC - 27%
  • SC - 15%
  • ST - 7.5%

Supernumerary seats will also be considered for PwD, Kashmiri Migrants and Ex-Servicemen, as per Government Regulations.

The Merit list Rank for respective categories (GEN, OBC, EWS, SC, ST) are based on Entrance Test scores and are published on the NRTI website post result declaration. Provisionally selected students, along with high ranked waitlisted candidates, are called for counselling at the NRTI campus, Vadodara. If there are any vacant seats after the 1st round of counselling, additional waitlisted students are called in the order of merit for the 2nd round of counselling.

Timeline
  • May 2018: NRTI given Deemed to be University status by University Grants Commission.[1]
  • Sep 2018: Academic sessions starts. 103 students shortlisted on basis of NRTI Aptitude test held in July-2018 for fully residential three year Bachelor of Science in Transportation Technology and Bachelor of Business Administration in Transport Management.[2][3]
  • Dec 2018: NRTI dedicated to nation by Railway minister Piyush Goyal and Chief Minister of Gujarat Vijay Rupani.[4]

References
  1. "UGC approves deemed-to-be university status for NRTI". The Times of India. 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  2. "Railway University: Syllabus, courses, admission details here". The Indian Express. 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  3. "Railway University to be launched today, two courses to be offered initially". Scroll.in. 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  4. "Goyal, Rupani to dedicate India's first Railway University to nation today". Daily Excelsior. 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
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