India Railway Budget 2015

[NKVD]

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@SpArK
India aims to invest $137 billion in railways in next 5 years| Reuters

 

[SpArK]

I always wondered why some passenger trains have less general compartments, but lots of sleeper and 1st class.

Many trains travel with general compartments full and people travel long distances in those crowded ones.

The best decision as far i see is allowing more general compartments which has been ignored by all previous governments.

 

[Yaduveer]

Garbage budget seems to have been dictated by Mamta Banerjee herself. Instead of raising long overdue civilian tariff modi raises freight again (already among the highest in the world). The increased freight rates, especially coal with the new auctioned prices will set off an inflationary trend in power quite soon.

I'm sure even the usual Bhakt whitewashing is not going to erase the blot off this incompetent exercise. The markets, meanwhile are tanking again, learnig the hard way what I have been saying for a long time. This emperor is running stark naked on the streets.

Rail Budget 2015: No Increase in Passenger Fares, No New Trains Announced – NDTV Profit

@Bang Galore @DRAY -- no economic messiah here I'm afraid.

Baat to tumane theek ki hai ... cross subsidization of passenger fare through increase in frieght tariff does not bode well for railway finances..

Lekin Aap wale Kab se state Finance ke baare main sochane lage ? AAP walon wo to sirf paisa kharch karna aata hai ... Free wifi free water electricity free fcuk.

Jis tarah ki language use ki tumane .. man to ye kar raha hai ki utha ke joota 4 khopadi main thok dun..

Kya ye baat kam inflammatory language use karke nahi ki ja sakti thee ?

 

[Guynextdoor2]

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Excellent. You realize we are in the midst of a Urea crisis that has drive up prices in places like Punjab where the chief seasons are on? I'm sure that additional 10% will do a lot of good to resolve the situation.

 

[SpArK]

Railway Budget: High on Vision
by N Madhavan
Suresh Prabhu, like his predecessors, has laid down a grand plan to restore the organisation's greatness but the challenge has always been in delivering the promises. Can he do it any differently?



Key announcements:

• No hike in passenger fare rates
• Freight rates hiked across the board, to generate additional Rs 4,000 crore
• Focus on customer experience, safety, capacity augmentation and financial sustainability
• Rs 8.5 lakh crore required for investment over next 5 years
• Transport Logistics Corporation of India to be set up for end to end logistics solutions
• A new PPP model to attract private sector participation
• Innovation Council set up to foster spirit of innovation in railways

Listening to railway budgets over the years always gave the impression that the ministers presenting them are great reformers. In fact, one of them, Dinesh Trivedi (in 2012), even lost his job for being one. The latest budget presented by railways minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday was no different. It had four goals, five drivers (of change) and 11 major thrust areas to “restore railways as the backbone of India’s transportation infrastructure”. But many reformist budgets notwithstanding, Indian Railways’s finances continue to be precarious and safety record patchy. It is in this context that Prabhu’s budget is found wanting. The expectation from a reformist minister was more on the specifics rather than a broad vision.

While acknowledging that the railways, on account of chronic under-investment, suffered from inadequate capacity augmentation, poor safety and service levels, the minister vowed to put an end to this vicious cycle. He has set four goals for himself–deliver sustainable and measurable improvement in customer expectation, safer railways, capacity augmentation and modern infrastructure, and most importantly, making railways financially sustainable.

He said Rs 8.5 lakh crore was required over the next five years to augment capacity. But where this money will come from was not spelt out, though the minister indicated that he will not opt for the easy way–budgetary allocation. The options available with the minister then are internal accruals, public-private partnership and funding from multilateral institutions.

The internal accruals have been on the decline for years now. The surplus which railways generated in 2007-08 was Rs 11,754 crore, but it had declined to as less as Rs 602 crore in 2013-14. Sparing the passengers of any hike is not going to improve the surplus that the organisation generates, though it will benefit from lower fuel costs to an extent. But the freight rates have been hiked across the board despite falling volumes. Transporting foodgrains will cost 10 per cent more, coal (6.3 percent), cement (2.7 percent) and urea (10 percent). The minister has budgeted a Rs 4,000 crore increase from the higher freight rates. But what he has not factored in is the potential shift of more freight in favour of the road sector which is today benefitting from low diesel prices

It is clear that the minister is banking on the private sector in a big way. He has promised to come out with a model PPP agreement that should draw investors, but this is an untested area.

The corporate world has welcomed the thrust for the private sector. “Initiatives like a larger role of the private sector in station upgradation, rolling stocks and bulk transportation would go a long way in making RGE railways efficient,” Assocham’s president Rana Kapoor said.

But past experience has not been very positive for corporate India. So the minister plans to build confidence by working with public sector companies first and create the necessary conditions for the private sector to follow. Multilateral funding is another source he would dip into.

By preferring to focus on increasing capacity in the available congested network, he is hoping to not only avoid land acquisition issues but also reduce time and costs. The surplus this investment will generate will be deployed in expanding rail connectivity to other parts of the country. Not much was said about the dedicated freight corridor.

Setting up of the Transport Logistics Corporation of India–an end-to-end logistics provider–is a welcome move that will enable railways to add value to its freight operations. It sits on large tracts of unused lands that can be used to construct warehouses, etc. So is his plan to audit operations of all trains from cost and profitability points of view. It is another matter altogether whether politics would allow him to withdraw trains that turn out to be unviable.

What Prabhu has done differently though is that unlike other railway ministers before him, he has refrained from announcing any new trains in his speech. If he has to lift Indian Railways from its morass, he has to do a lot more things differently and take bold (sometimes politically difficult) decisions which his predecessors failed to do. Otherwise his budget speech next year will carry much less credibility.

Read more: Forbes India Magazine - Railway Budget: High on Vision

 

[jaatram]

Excellent. You realize we are in the midst of a Urea crisis that has drive up prices in places like Punjab where the chief seasons are on? I'm sure that additional 10% will do a lot of good to resolve the situation.

Anant Kumar Minister of chemicals and fertilizers said urea prices won't be increased.

 

[SpArK]

Excellent. You realize we are in the midst of a Urea crisis that has drive up prices in places like Punjab where the chief seasons are on? I'm sure that additional 10% will do a lot of good to resolve the situation.

Dont worry.

No Increase in Urea Prices Despite Rail Tariff Hike: Fertiliser Minister – NDTV Profit


There will not be any increase in urea prices. With the increase of rail freight charges on urea, only subsidy paid for urea will increase. We will continue to provide urea at current price of Rs. 5,360 per tonne," Mr Kumar said.

 

[Yaduveer]

@jaatram kya problem hai en @Guynextdoor2 ko ?

Hamesha Prime minister ko disrespect se baat kyun karta hai ye ? Criticism ek jagah ye to gali galauch par utar aata hai ..

 

[jaatram]

@jaatram kya problem hai en @Guynextdoor2 ko ?

Hamesha Prime minister ko disrespect se baat kyun karta hai ye ? Criticism ek jagah ye to gali galauch par utar aata hai ..

Yeh aam aadmi hai ji, inko kaam karna nahi aata. Sirf dharna aur gaaliya deni aati hai.

 

[Ryuzaki]

Interesting,no hike in prices.
No mention of falling of diesel prices

 

[AugenBlick]

@jaatram kya problem hai en @Guynextdoor2 ko ?

Hamesha Prime minister ko disrespect se baat kyun karta hai ye ? Criticism ek jagah ye to gali galauch par utar aata hai ..

Be happy he doesn't live nextdoor to you

 

[Srinivas]

Did you not quit the forum? What a cartoon! Epitome of self esteem I suppose.

What part of the budget was BS btw?

Seems some thing is wrong with this id !

don't worry guys @Guynextdoor2 is more of a 'dognextdoor' , he barks and sometimes even bites whenever he sees any existential threat to his master.

don't believe me ? check out his avatar

You own this forum?

One or two guys who are intolerant are enough to spread the B.S and make India from secular to fanatic right wing country here.

Some work over time tirelessly in various avatars to polarize opinion here.

 

[Razia Sultana]

I hope you And your Congress goons will Sell their Properties to Supply Funds To Railways to Cover Its Loss.
Very Practical Budget since Railways Not in Conditions to Allow more freebies.
Overhaul is Needed to save it from going on the Lines of Air India

Railway is not making loss. I think Railways started making profits since Lalu yadav was the Rail Minister.

 

[A$HU]

Anant Kumar Minister of chemicals and fertilizers said urea prices won't be increased.

Price of urea wont be increased as it is subsidized.It has a fixed rate. The extra 10% would be added in the subsidy i.e. it will be covered by the government.

 

[Diggy]

Seems some thing is wrong with this id !



You own this forum?

looks like there are lot of juveniles on this forum , did i ever say i own this place.