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Budget 2012-2013

Speech of Sh. Pawan Kumar Bansal. URL:[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/finance_budget/Budget_2013-14/English_Speech_2013-14.pdf].

Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self by Laura Bear. The Culture of History Series, Columbia University Press, New York 2007. 360 pp. $49.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-14002-7. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=15724

The Indian Railways (IR) have grand plans. They would like to leapfrog to a higher growth trajectory during 2010-20. Towards this, they would like to see a total investment of Rs 14,00,000 crores (cr), as stated in the Vision 2020, brought out by the Ministry of Railways (MoR) in December 2009....

There is in urgent need for modernization and generational Change need to be done in the Indian railways to assure safety, improve productivity, take advantage of advanced technology, respond to ever increasing demand and meet inclusive growth aspirations of the country. In order to prepare a...

Modernization, encouragement to PPP, integration of MGNREGA, has been given importance in the railway budget.

Indian Railways have to be investor friendly. The railway budget will have to deal with core issues such as mobilizing resources, controlling costs and offering competitive freight structure with an environment friendly advantage to increase its share in the freight market. [MyIris].

Indian Railways (IR), which was declared to be heading towards bankruptcy as per the Expert Group on Indian Railways in 2001, is today the second largest profit making Public Sector Undertaking after ONGC. This confidence is not only due to the rising trend of performance, but also due to the...