Derailway Ministry

Union Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi is seeking a corpus fund to keep afloat select railway projects. This comes after the Centre had turned down his requests for a bailout of the Indian Railways (IR). His argument is a “sick” railways will pull down the country’s GDP growth. The obverse is, of course, of a healthy IR adding to growth, to the tune of 2 per cent according to the minister. Where exactly that ready figure came from is less pertinent than what brought IR down to this state of affairs. The minister does not have to look far. 

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