allahabad attempts are being made to develop a roadmap for the future growth of it in the indian railways conditions today are ripe for us to obtain the benefits of it since general awareness of the technology is high and its benefits have been proven said faud mahmood member finance and it rail land development authority new delhi while inaugurating a weeklong summer school organised by the indian institute of information technology allahabad on mondayhe said that indian railways has been a pioneer in the use of it in the country the technology was first used in 1960s when computerised passenger and freight revenue accounting operating statistics payroll and inventory management were introduced using computers he said another notable success was the introduction of the passenger reservation system prs in mideighties and its subsequent enhancement to a fully networked application mahmood addedpresiding over the function iiita director md tiwari emphasised the need of having summer schools the hrd ministry and aicte too support it with a view to develop new trained human resource in the country in the field of it dr anurika vaish coordinator of summer school said that in the present globalised world it and enabled services are relevant in each facet of human life finance has probably been the most affected area with it ites revolutionising the banking and financial world through online banking atms debit cards credit cards online trading etc therefore there is need to upgrade the knowledge level of teaching fraternity and others she said she also outlined the importance of it in areas of banking and efinancedr shveta singh threw light on the workshop module which has been designed to make participants exposed to various areas like meaning and importance of efinance deployment of efinance meaning of ebanking and its importance efinance technologies in payment servicesover 50 participants from across the country are taking part in the workshop which will be addressed by various experts