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Indian railways: strategy for reforms

By: Publication details: New Delhi Foundation Books 2015Description: xvii, 201 pISBN:
  • 9789384463151
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • V3I6 385.0954
Summary: The need for reform in the Indian Railways has become much more acute and urgent than ever before. Suggestions for corporatisation, compensation for cost of social service obligations, separating policy from execution, shedding off non-core activities have long been made. There is serious need to question the way we look at our railway system, i.e., whether its format as a commercial cum public utility service being run by a government department has served the needs of a growing economy or hampered its growth. This book attempts to develop an alternative institutional framework which is simple, effective and workable while causing least upheaval to the existing structure. Some of the suggestions may be found somewhat iconoclastic. But reform which pleases all is no reform. Reforms come about only with foresight, determination and courage to break from the past. (http://www.cambridgeindia.org/showbookdetails.asp?ISBN=9789384463151)
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The need for reform in the Indian Railways has become much more acute and urgent than ever before. Suggestions for corporatisation, compensation for cost of social service obligations, separating policy from execution, shedding off non-core activities have long been made. There is serious need to question the way we look at our railway system, i.e., whether its format as a commercial cum public utility service being run by a government department has served the needs of a growing economy or hampered its growth.

This book attempts to develop an alternative institutional framework which is simple, effective and workable while causing least upheaval to the existing structure. Some of the suggestions may be found somewhat iconoclastic. But reform which pleases all is no reform. Reforms come about only with foresight, determination and courage to break from the past.

(http://www.cambridgeindia.org/showbookdetails.asp?ISBN=9789384463151)

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