{"id":34975,"date":"2018-10-31T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34975"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:08:46","slug":"private-players-may-run-rail-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/private-players-may-run-rail-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Private players may run rail lines:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/govt-may-open-railway-lines-to-private-players\/article19749646.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private players may run rail lines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union government is open to the idea of giving operations of railway lines to private players for enhancing competition.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the proposition?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doing so will allow to generate competition in the process and improve customer satisfaction.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Various models<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Goyal, the Railway Ministry is studying various models for attracting more private players.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the changes?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Goyal is willing to spend unlimited funds on safety, he said clearing the backlog for track renewal would be the focus, and a zero accident rate would be an aspiration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no budget for safety. Whatever fund is required we will spend,\u201d Mr. Goyal said.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Goyal is also re-tuning policy to attract private companies for modernizing railway stations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To begin with, the Railways have decided to do away with the \u2018Swiss Challenge\u2019 model of awarding railway stations to private players and taken a slew of measures to lease out at least 100 stations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private players may run rail lines: Context The Union government is open to the idea of giving operations of railway lines to private players for enhancing competition. What is the proposition? Doing so will allow to generate competition in the process and improve customer satisfaction. Various models Mr. Goyal, the Railway Ministry is studying various&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/private-players-may-run-rail-lines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Private players may run rail lines:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704817275},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}