Letter to BS: Introducing privately run trains is a brilliant idea

Your editorial, "The private train mirage" (September 25), does well to point out the pitfalls in the proposal to introduce privately-run trains under the overall scheme of public private partnerships. But permit me to disagree with your thinking that the “idea is fundamentally flawed”. I think it is a brilliant idea that deserves serious consideration. Time has come for such out-of-the-box thinking if we want to modernise rail travel in India. 

Of course, you have made a crucial point when you talk about the need to reform Indian Railways and the Railway Board. The two will definitely need to be separated,