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| More efforts to lift sundry earnings | 04-JUL-09 |
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| Indian Railways intends to make full use of its vast surplus land to generate non-traditional revenues through setting up multi-functional complexes, budget hotels and leasing land along the proposed industrial corridors. |
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| Slowdown shadow on return to high growth | 04-JUL-09 |
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| The financial performance of Indian Railways is expected to deteriorate further in the current financial year because of the economic slowdown adversely affecting revenues and increased expenditure on account of implementing the Sixth Pay Commission to its 1.4 million employees. |
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| More trains, but confusion in skies | 04-JUL-09 |
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| Airlines and travel agencies are divided on whether the new train services announced by Mamata Banerjee in the Railway Budget 2009-10 will see a shift of passengers from airlines to trains. |
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| Fares firm, freebies galore | 04-JUL-09 |
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| Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee while keeping the passenger fares untouched announced a bevy of concessions for the low-income groups, youth and journalists apart from tinkering with the tatkal scheme to make it marginally cheaper. |
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| Revised freight targets achievable | 04-JUL-09 |
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| Mamata Banerjee did not tinker with freight rates, but brought down the projected earnings from “unrealistically high targets set in the interim budget”. |
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| Mamata's budget to push PPP projects | 25-JUN-09 |
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| With the present economic conditions not providing much scope for either large-scale fare concessions or an across-the-board increase in freight rates, the highlight of the Railway Budget for 2009-10 is likely to be a big push to public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives to enhance the Indian Railways’ capacity to earn higher revenues on a sustainable basis. |
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| 'I have the blessings of aam aadmi' | 14-FEB-09 |
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| Railway Minister Lalu Prasad was much in demand on Friday, so much so that his press conference spilled over into the corridors of Parliament. Saubhadro Chatterji caught up with him. |
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| Wheels of modernisation gather pace | 14-FEB-09 |
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| ROLLING STOCK: The railways have deployed their investible surplus of nearly Rs 70,000 crore earned between 2004-05 and 2008-09 to increase rolling stock productivity. |
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