French business school admires Lalu's success

NEW DELHI: After dons from the Harvard University and the IIM, Ahmedabad, it is now the turn of a leading French business school to exhibit its admiration for Railway Minister Lalu Prasad's phenomenal success in scripting a turnaround of the government's biggest department.

Karine Le Joly, Director of Academic Coordination, International Programmes, HEC School of Management, Paris, called on Prasad on Tuesday and inquired about the ''tremendous turn around achieved by the Indian Railways''.

She also evinced keen interest in the steps taken by the Railways to achieve this success in such a short period.

Prasad, on his part, said his ministry needed new technologies from India and abroad to achieve further progress.

Joly said the HEC School of Management was conducting training programmes for Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) of Indian Railways, and another batch of DRMs was due in Paris in September.

She said the significant success of the Indian Railways in such a short period had compelled her to make a case study of the same. ''I am here to study the methods adopted to bring about this significant turnaround,'' she pointed out.

The French business expert also met senior officers of the Railway Board.