01075pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001700040245006500057260000900122300001500131362001100146520070400157650002100861650001300882773003400895180718b2000   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSriraman, S.  aIndian railway finance: critical issues and emerging options  c2000  ap.1029-034  a18 Mar  aRailway finances are closely linked to the role that has been traditionally assigned to the railway system in the development of the Indian economy. But given a mandate of performance on commercial lines in a liberalised economic policy framework, Indian Railways is necessarily required to depend on internal resource generation for funding maintenance and expansion of the network. Railway budgets which could have served as a basis to operationalise strategies to launch the railways on to such a process have attempted very little, especially in the recent past. What are the problems and constraints that the railways encounters in its efforts to fit into the new policy framework? - Reproduced  aRailways - India  aRailways  aEconomic and Political Weekly