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PPP's of Indian Railways - A Report
Written By idontspam - 24 August, 2010
Attached is a report on PPP projects of Indian Railways over the years. Thanks to CiSTUP for sharing this with/for Praja with permission from G Raghuram. Please do not redistribute without permission from authors as it may infringe copyrights. It makes a very interesting reading
Let me know what you think, after reading?
COMMENTS
kbsyed61 - 24 August, 2010 - 17:02
IDS,
Thanks for sharing this. Will get back after reading thru it.
Thammu Shetty - 26 October, 2010 - 11:43
Railways new policy on PPP can be read here:
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/indianrailways/directorate/planning/downloads/R3i_circular_new.pdf
silkboard - 27 October, 2010 - 03:13
Thammu, thanks for sharing. But right on the first page of the new policy, you read this:
The primary objective of this policy is to retain and increase rail share in freight traffic.
Further, focus seems to be new lines only.
Only those new line proposals which are 20 kms or more in length (excluding the length of siding which may take off from this line) shall be eligible under this policy
For CRS, the core idea is to reuse existing lines. Not sure if augmenting them (extra tracks) will be covered.
Regardless, the section describing SPV model is an interesting read, for this is how a future circular allowing commuter rail SPVs in large cities (that's what we want) could look:
An SPV shall be formed between railways and the applicant and railways share in equity will generally be 26%.
Notice operate and maintain below:
SPV shall be granted a concession to construct, operate and maintain the line and in consideration there of, it shall be granted a share in the revenue generated on the project line.
But then it says this to confuse (O&M = operate & maintain) us:
6.5 O&M shall be undertaken for the SPV by the railways for which SPV shall reimburse the costs.
Anyway. Lets wait. We are told things ar emoving favorably at Rail bhavan for commuter rail.
Traffic density on existing lines
Thammu Shetty - 27 October, 2010 - 03:23
Some of the lines touching B'lore are supposed to be having the highest traffic density in Indian Railway. Tumkur line for instance. So utilising the existing tracks for CRS looks doubtful. Hyderabad tried the same approach, but failed. Dedicated corridor is a must, I believe.
idontspam - 27 October, 2010 - 04:40
Some of the lines touching B'lore are supposed to be having the highest traffic density in Indian Railway. Tumkur line for instance.
What are the number of trains per hour on the Tumkur line?
Hyderabad tried the same approach, but failed.
Which line in hyderabad was tried and failed?
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