Special Railway Establishment for Strategic Technology and Holistic Advancement (SRESTHA), Lucknow

Special Railway Establishment for Strategic Technology and Holistic Advancement (SRESTHA), Lucknow

Subject: Polity

Section: National Organisation

Context: Indian Railways has announced the closure of the Special Railway Establishment for Strategic Technology and Holistic Advancement (SRESTHA), Lucknow.

Established in March 2016, the SRESTHA directorate,part of the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), was tasked with the role of taking up long term railway research projects requiring technological advancement. As part of the restructuring plan, the Railways also decided to merge 32 directorates of the RDSO and brought them under seven verticals — administration, infrastructure, rolling stock,traction and power supply, signal and telecommunication, resource and testing and traffic and psychology.