01126pab a2200169 454500 180718b2000 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Sriraman, S. Indian railway finance: critical issues and emerging options 2000 p.1029-034 18 Mar Railway 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 Railways - India Railways Economic and Political Weekly 44244 44244 44244 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 35, Issue no: 12 AR44652 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR