Best of BS Opinion: Railway finances, company boardroom, and more

From Indian Railways' inefficiency costs, infrastructure deficiencies to corporate India's need for boardroom wisdom are some issues our opinion writers tackle

Indian Railways
Indian Railways
Uddalok Bhattacharya
1 min read Last Updated : Jan 03 2020 | 6:26 AM IST
The Railways, other forms of infrastructure, or the company boardroom — what unites all of them? Absence of wisdom? Corruption? Inefficiency? Or just the burden of the past? Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Doing away with cash does not mean doing away with corruption. Ajit Balakrishnan analyses the issue. Read on...

Though the infrastructure plan of the government is laudable, it does not go far enough to address the country’s infrastructure deficiencies, says Rathin Roy. Read more...

This is the time for corporate India to get more wisdom into the boardroom, says R Gopalakrishnan. Click here to read...

Apart from its social service obligations, Indian Railways bears a lot of inefficiency costs, says Vinayak Chatterjee. Click here... 


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