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From PPP to organisational changes, a tight rope walk for Ashwini Vaishnaw

Electrification of 68,155 route kilometre (RKM) broad-gauge railway routes by December 2023 is nearing completion

Ashwini Vaishnaw
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Illustration: Binay Sinha

Twesh Mishra New Delhi
Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has completed three months in office but the Indian Railways that was at the crossroads of getting in more private investment into the system is still not full steam into it despite his predecessor Piyush Goyal’s push.

One of the key challenges is to pick up the thread for private trains, tender for which was designed during Goyal’s tenure, but had to be discharged due to tepid response. Where the Indian Railways did move ahead, however, was station redevelopment which was largely pursued through Indian Railways Stations Development Corporation, a joint venture of Ircon and