Entrepreneur Pitches Business Idea To Railways Minister On Paper Napkin, Gets A Call
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Eastern Railway general manager Milind K Deouskar and other senior officers met Akshay Satnaliwala at the ER headquarters in Kolkata and discussed the freight prospects suggested by his firm
Entrepreneur Akshay Satnaliwala could hardly imagine that a business proposal to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on a paper napkin during a flight would spring the railway administration in action in no time.
Eastern Railway general manager Milind K Deouskar and other senior officers met Satnaliwala at the ER headquarters in Kolkata and discussed the freight prospects suggested by his firm, an official said on Thursday.
ER spokesperson Kausik Mitra said Satnaliwala, director of a solid waste management company in West Bengal, "explained the schematic flow of solid waste to various industries with prospective buyers in different parts of the country like Raipur in Chhattisgarh and Rajgangpur in Odisha and other clusters through the railways." He said the ER general manager, responding to the business proposals by Satnaliwala, offered flexible terms for carrying solid and other waste through the railway route as a cheaper mode of transportation.
