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Progress must be made to corporatise railways: Rakesh Mohan

Interview with Rakesh Mohan

Rakesh Mohan
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Rakesh Mohan

Udit Misra New Delhi
Rakesh Mohan, senior fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and distinguished fellow, Brookings India has said that while scrapping the separate Railway Budget is a positive move, the government has not yet clarified what it plans to do to make the railways more efficient. In an e-mail interview to Udit Misra, Mohan said little improvement has taken place over the years despite there being no dearth of information on what needs to be done. Excerpts:

In your 2001 report you had remarked “From the point of view of investment strategy, the most undesirable feature of the annual Budget exercise