Indian Railways private train services: Officials hold meet with industry players
The national transporter in a formal kick-start to its plans to allow private entities to operate passenger trains on its network, this month invited proposals from companies to run 151 modern passenger trains on 109 pairs of routes across the country. The project would entail a private sector investment of about Rs 30,000 crore.
Even as the Indian Railways plans to introduce first set of 12 private trains in 2023, followed by 45 more in the next fiscal, according to an initial timeline drawn by the railways, Photo: Reuters