Silver Touch Technologies Wins Order from RITES Limited to Build India's AI-Native Infrastructure Appraisal Platform

Silver Touch Technologies Wins Order from RITES Limited to Build India's AI-Native Infrastructure Appraisal Platform​

Silver Touch Technologies Limited has been awarded a significant order by RITES Limited, a Navratna Government Enterprise under the Ministry of Railways, for the Design, Development, and Implementation of PARAKH. This project involves creating an advanced AI-Based Detailed Project Report (DPR) Appraisal & Intelligence Platform intended to be one of India's first self-hosted, multi-model AI platforms dedicated to infrastructure project evaluation.

The engagement transforms Silver Touch from a conventional IT services provider into an AI-native platform company in the crucial infrastructure sector. The PARAKH platform is designed to serve as RITES’ AI core for appraising major national infrastructure projects, including railways, highways, bridges, ports, airports, metro systems, and tunnels.

Technical Depth of the PARAKH Platform​

The platform goes beyond conventional software with integrated AI features; it is an entirely ground-up, purpose-built AI system designed to revolutionize how India's leading infrastructure consultancy evaluates Detailed Project Reports. Key components of the solution include:

• AI Core: Deployment of three Self-Hosted Large Language Models (Llama 3.1 70B, Mistral 7B, and Qwen 2.5 7B) running on NVIDIA A100 GPU infrastructure within RITES' secure data centre, ensuring zero external data egress.
• Validation Engine: Implementation of over 500 Codified Engineering Validation Rules derived from IRC, RDSO, IS, and MORTH standards to provide deterministic and auditable checks alongside AI intelligence.
• Data Processing: A Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that combines semantic vector search with keyword search across a corpus of over 1,000 historical DPRs for grounded, citation-backed appraisal.
• Quality Control: A Four-Layer Hallucination Prevention Framework is in place to ensure every AI-generated insight is source verified, confidence scored, and mandatory citation-based.
• Document Intelligence: The platform features a Document Intelligence Pipeline capable of processing DPRs ranging from 500 to 5,000 pages, complete with OCR, table extraction, and engineering entity recognition.
• Integration & Security: The solution includes GIS integration with the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan, BIM/IFC interoperability, multi-sector knowledge graph creation across eight infrastructure domains, and Enterprise-Grade Security features such as Keycloak IAM, AES-256 encryption, mTLS service mesh, and compliance with OWASP Top 10 and LLM-specific security standards.

Strategic Importance and Market Moat​

This contract holds significant strategic value for Silver Touch Technologies, positioning the company at the forefront of AI application in infrastructure governance. Unlike standard IT projects where AI is an add-on feature, PARAKH establishes artificial intelligence as the central value proposition.

The deployment of a multi-model, fully self-hosted system positions Silver Touch among few Indian IT companies capable of delivering this to a Navratna government enterprise—making it a production-grade, mission critical AI system rather than a pilot project. Furthermore, the proprietary nature of the 500+ codified engineering rules and the historical DPR knowledge base creates a domain moat. This competitive advantage compounds as the platform processes more reports, improving its accuracy in benchmarking, validation, and anomaly detection.

Minesh V Doshi, Executive Director of Silver Touch Technologies Limited, commented on the order, stating: "We are honoured to partner with RITES Limited in building what we believe is India's most advanced AI-native infrastructure intelligence platform. PARAKH is not just a technology project—it is a testament to Silver Touch's capability to engineer genuine, production-grade AI systems for mission-critical national applications... We believe this establishes Silver Touch as a pioneer in AI for infrastructure governance."

The order was secured through the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) portal following a competitive Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) evaluation.

SILVERTUC Stock Price Movement​

Shares of Silver Touch Technologies Limited today slipped by 1.38% to settle at ₹181.33 after trading closed for the day. The stock saw a volume of 407,766 shares traded during the session.