Railways set to roll out two major reform initiatives
BY M Post Bureau5 Sep 2016 11:45 PM GMT
M Post Bureau5 Sep 2016 11:45 PM GMT
The Railways Ministry is set to roll out two major initiatives –setting up of a regulatory authority for fixing fares and creating an infrastructure development fund – that will have far-reaching effect on the national transporter, officials said.
The latest initiatives, which has already undertaken a series of changes in its policy and structure, come at a time when PM Narendra Modi has been laying emphasis on reforms.
While the formation of a railway regulatory authority is likely to be announced through an executive order soon, the World Bank has agreed to anchor the Railway Infrastructure Development Fund with a corpus of $5 billion over a period of seven years, a senior Railway Ministry official said.
The fund will be co-anchored by pension and sovereign wealth funds.
The official said these two initiatives are part of major reforms being undertaken by the railways that will transform the national transporter in a big way.
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