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Indian Railways in the Past Twenty Years Issues, Performance and Challenges
(2009-07-29)
Indian Railways (IR) is Asia’s largest and world’s second largest network under one management, with a separate Ministry and its own annual budget. The network carried about 17 million Passengers and 2 mt freight every day ...
Strategies for Improved Servicing of the Customers: Case of Ghaziabad Goods Shed of the Indian Railways
(2009-07-28)
The Ghaziabad (GZB) goods shed was one of the top rail goods handling points in the National Capital Region (NCR). The growth was expected to be robust in the forthcoming years, since GZB and Noida were high growth districts ...
‘Turnaround’ of Indian Railways: A Critical Appraisal of Strategies and Processes
(2009-08-13)
Indian Railways (IR), which was declared to be heading towards bankruptcy as per the Expert Group on Indian Railways in 2001, is today the second largest profit making Public Sector Undertaking after ONGC. The fund balance ...
Airport Privatization in India:Lessons from the Bidding Process in Delhi and Mumbai
(2009-08-22)
Modernization of Delhi and Mumbai airports had been considered as early as 1996 by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). In June 2003, the AAI board approved a modernization proposal. These airports accounted for 47% of ...
A Diagnostic Study of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust
(2009-09-01)
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), an autonomous body under the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963, was commissioned on 26th May, 1989. The port was originally planned to decongest the Mumbai port and serve as a hub port for ...
Coastal shipping: scope of integrating with the national transport network
(2009-12-14)
Coastal shipping constitutes about 30% of the total traffic handled at our ports. Exhibit 1 gives data for the past two years for the major ports, the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) ports, and the non-GMB minor and intermediate ...
Lessons from Leveraging Land: A Case of Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor pioneered the idea of leveraging land for revenue generation to make a project viable. The project was conceived as early as 1988. It had the twin objectives of (i) connecting ...
Mega projects in India Environmental and Land Acquisition Issues in the Road Sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Mega projects (primarily infrastructure) receive a sizable investment (~10%) of the gross fixed capital formation in India. Environmental clearances and land acquisitions have been the two major reasons for delays in the ...
Toilets and Trains
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
Indian Railways (IR) is a large transport organization running 8700 trains, reaching 7000 stations and handling about 1.6 crore passengers per day. IR runs several long distant trains, some of which involve journeys upto ...