Debroy committee suggests corporatisation of Railways
Panel’s interim report suggests separation of roles of operation, regulation and policy making in the sector
Kolkata. Policy making is not to concern the cabinet and legislation has to do nothing with the Parliament. The total Privatisation, Total FDI and Total disinvestment TRISHUL of RSS Fascist government of Hindu streamlined on making in Gujarat model.

An official panel's recommendation to allow private players in Railways has met with strong opposition from employees' union which has given a call for observing "black day" on June 30 across the country. "We have decided to observe black day on June 30 all over the country by wearing black badges," said Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secretary, and All India Railway Federation.

Terming it as a "clear roadmap for privatisation", Mishra said, "We hope that the Debroy report will not be accepted by the government."

But as it happened since 1991, trade unions guided by corporate funded Parliamentary politics may not resist Privatisation of Indian lifeline which is virtually already privatised as far as Railway services are concerned.

- According to NFIR, it is not desirable to experiment with FDI and private players in infrastructure without building massive railway infrastructure first!

BAGULA expert committees consisting of private parties constituted and their reports are final for the KILL the Public Sector Units, PSUs selected for disinvestment.

Railway Minister Prabhuji just rolled the ball in the court and the game starts. However, Modiji with his dream project of bullet trains have already declared the war against Indian Railway which in no more so public as everything is managed by private companies for example Ticket Booking, Track maintenance, infrastructure, passenger services, catering and so on. Only Operation and Signalling to be managed by Railway employees and the drives and guards, ticket checkers have not lost their job and trains with Railway stations still remain public property.

Thus, the committee headed by economist Bibek Debroy has recommended corporatization of the railway board and separation of roles of policy making, regulation and operations suggesting that the ministry of railways be only responsible for policymaking.

In its interim report that has been put on the ministry’s website for feedback, the committee suggested forming an independent regulator for economic regulation and a railway infrastructure company that will own the railway infrastructure, thus de-linking both from the railways.

Bibek Debroy is a permanent member of the NITI Aayog.

The Bibek Debroy committee on the proposed restructuring of Indian Railways (IR) has recommended private sector participation in projects and setting up an independent regulator to promote competition in the segment. Business Standard reports.

The final report of the panel has not yet been given but is ready.

The panel also said that if all its recommendations highlighted for the first five years — creation of an independent regulator, reorganisation of the Railway Board, reorganisation of Group A railway services, revision of dividend policy and many others — are implemented and issues related to social costs are addressed, the annual railway budget could be phased out. The Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) to IR could be mentioned as a paragraph in the Union Budget and no more.
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