Railway Budget

Rail Budget 2016: Railway plans to set up organisation to develop National Rail Plan-2030

While presenting the budget on Thursday, Prabhu announced a Railway Planning & Investment Organisation to draft medium and long-term corporate plans

Here's why Arvind Subramanian’s economic survey offers a subsidy 'Nirvana'

In his press conference, chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian alerted journalists to not look at the Economic Survey as anything more than wishful policy thinking.

Rail Budget 2015: Why India Inc's top guns are cheering for Suresh Prabhu

The corporate and industries sector sees a lot of positives in the budget presented by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.

Make in India to latest tech: Rail Budget 2015 is balanced but where are the funds?

It is a balanced budget. However, it leaves question mark on the challenge of convincingly garnering the significant amount of funds.

Prabhu raises hopes with Rail Budget 2015, but his assumptions may be unrealistic

Meeting the projections looks too unrealistic at this point in time, unless economy turns around and consumer confidence returns dramatically

Railway Budget 2015: Industry lauds Prabhu for reform-oriented, pro-growth steps

The minister hiked the freight rate for cement, coal, others by up to 10 percent; while envisaging investment of Rs 8.50 lakh crore in five years and proposed 77 new projects covering 9,400 km of doubling works, among others.

Airconditioned Mumbai local trains likely to be launched by October this year

Air-conditioned Mumbai local trains, which was promised in the Railway Budget 2015, will likely be launched latest by October this year.

Biting the bullet: Why Prabhu (and his boss) shouldn't chase the bullet train

Bullet trains are a bad idea when faster trains on existing tracks are an obvious and viable alternative. While it is true that the Modi promised bullet trains before the elections, good sense needs it to abandon this costly extravaganza

Watch: Boosted by PM Modi, Suresh Prabhu puts railway on fast track

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday said that Indian Railways will continue to serve the common man of India.

Rail Budget 2015: Prabhu has made lofty promises without giving a roadmap

Suresh Prabhu's rail budget is dominated by cosmetic value addition.

What Prabhu's white paper says: Indian Railways' finances will be in trouble soon

The 66-page White Paper has given details of railways' finances, expenditures on projects and suggestions for improvement.

Rail Budget 2015: Prabhu misses Modi’s target on efficiency, but hopes to better it

One key aspect that can improve the efficiency and decrease the Railways’ spending is by bettering the on-time performance of the passenger and goods trains

Rail Budget 2015: Prabhu makes sensible promises, but can he turn Railways around?

The Railway Minister has set a precedent by not announcing any new trains or appeasing political constituencies and it’s a far departure from the populist budgets earlier.

Rail Budget 2015: 7 stats Prabhu hopes to beat his predecessors on

Suresh Prabhu's budget is high on ambition; he has to follow it up with concrete action