Track change at Rail Bhavan: Is Goyal simply reversing Prabhu's legacy?

Piyush Goyal has begun his term as railway minister with characteristic energy, but not all his new initiatives are being praised

On October 5, Rail Bhavan in Delhi hosted a meeting of newly minted Railway Minister Piyush Goyal with the who’s who of the Indian realty sector — including the Tata group, Shapoorji Pallonji, GMR, Essel Group and L&T. What followed was a sweeping change: the Railway Board cancelled tenders for 23 railway stations and changed the norms of the re-development policy to attract Rs 1 lakh crore worth of private investment. 

The October 5 meeting was probably a trailer to the Goyal era of brisk activity, a replica of his style of functioning in his previous post in the power ministry.