Railway Private Partnership

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  Indian Railways To Bid Out 16 Stations For Redevelopment Purposes

  The railways will bid out 16 stations, including the Anand Vihar Terminal, under the public private partnership (PPP) model for redevelopment purposes with a tender being floated over the next two months.

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  Budget 2021: Indian Railways To Seek Investment Of Rs 30,000 Crore For Running Private Trains

  Union Budget 2021: Last year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced the introduction of 150 private trains across the national rail network in the next three-four years

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  Larsen & Toubro, GMR, BHEL Qualify To Bid For Private Train Operations

  Public-Private Partnership In Indian Railways: Infrastructure-sector leaders such as Larsen & Toubro (L&T), GMR, BHEL are among the 102 eligible applicants qualified to bid in the first stage.

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  Piyush Goyal Pitches For Private Investment In Railways

  Noting that private investment in passenger services will lead to "public good", Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that passengers should have the choice to be able to use superior services at competitive prices and underlined that investment in public-private partnership mode will generate employment in India.

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  Private Train Operators To Share Gross Revenue With Railways

  Just like in airlines, passengers of private trains, once launched, could have to pay for preferred seats, baggage and onboard services, the earnings from which will be part of the gross revenue to be shared with the Railways, according to an official document.

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  Private Operators Will Run Only 5% Trains Under Public Private Partnership: Railways

  Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav on Thursday said that private operators will operate only 5 per cent trains under Public Private Partnership while rest 95 per cent will be operated by Indian Railways.

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  Public Private Partnership To Be Unleashed To Develop Rail Infrastructure: Nirmala Sitharaman

  Finance Minister said corporate India is a job creator and wealth creator and called for public private partnership to develop rail infrastructure.

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  China Begins Construction Of Private Funded High-Speed Railway

  China's first public-private partnership (PPP) funded high-speed railway project with an investment of USD 6.46 billion has started construction in eastern province of Zhejiang, official media reported today.

• IL&FS Transport to Develop 8 Rail Over Bridges in Gujarat

  IL&FS Transportation Networks on Thursday announced a pact with the Gujarat government to develop eight railway over bridges entailing investment of about Rs 251 crore under the PPP (public private partnership) mode.

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  Rail Budget Proposes FDI, Private Investment, PPP Projects

  Having already effected a steep hike, the railway budget for 2014-15 spared passengers of any fresh revision in fares and freight rates but pitched for reforms by proposing private and Foreign Direct Investment and Public Private Partnership (PPP) to meet the resource crunch.

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  Railways to Borrow Rs 11,790 Crore for Capital Expenditure in 2014-15

  Indian Railways will borrow less at Rs 11,790 crore from market through its two companies IRFC and Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) for capital expenditure during 2014-15.

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  Rail Stocks Continue to Rise; Gain Upto 13%

  The markets expect the budget to bring in fiscal stability in the railways and fund inflows for modernisation, in line with the new government's proposal for infrastructure development through public private partnership (PPP) models.

• Railways to borrow Rs 15,103 crore in current fiscal year

  The railways will borrow Rs 15,103 crore from the market in 2013-14, marginally higher than Rs 15,000 crore borrowings in the current financial year. The estimated market borrowing would help the railways to finance its highest ever plan outlay of Rs 63,363 crore.

• Railways to set up firm to develop, maintain stations

  The responsibility of developing and maintaining thousands of railway stations across the country will be entrusted to a new company under the public private partnership (PPP) route