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100			_aSriraman, S.
245			_aIndian railway finance: critical issues and emerging options
260			_c2000
300			_ap.1029-034
362			_a18 Mar
520			_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
650			_aRailways - India
650			_aRailways
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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