Experts Committee on Railways

About Expert Committee :

The Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr Amit Mitra, Secretary-General, FICCI has been set up by the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) for developing Business models and innovative funding through PPP instruments. The Committee comprises of following members :

• Mr. Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, IAS (Retd), Former Rural Development Secretary
• Mr. Udayan Bose, Chairman and Founding Partner, Tamara Capital Advisors Private Limited
• Mr. Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman, Indian Venture Capital Fund and Co Founder, NASSCOM
• Mr. Sudheendra Kulkarni
• Mr. S.S. Khurana, Chairman, Railway Board
• Mr. Shri Prakash, Member, Traffic, Railway Board
• Mr. Rakesh Chopra, Member, Engineering, Railway Board
• Ms Soumya Raghavan, Financial Commissioner, Railways
• Mr Abdul Kalam, Former CMD, Eastern Coalfields
• Mr V K Agnihotri, Former Member, Railway Board
• Mr S Ramanathan, Former GM, Eastern Railway
• Mr Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secretary, AIRF
• Mr M Raghvaiah, General Secretary, NFIR
• Mr V K Gupta, Adviser (Land and Amenities), Railway Board
• Mr Mahesh Y Reddy, Senior Director, FICCI - Member Secretary

Objectives:

• Developing structures that maximize the role of public-private partnerships (PPPs).
• Developing innovative funding techniques through Public Private Partnership (PPP) instruments.
• To identify economically unviable, but socially desirable projects for implementing them through innovative funding.
• Initiating policies that would ensure time-bound creation of world class infrastructure delivering services matching international standards.
• Monitoring progress of key infrastructure projects to ensure that established targets are realized.

Terms of Reference (TOR):

1. Developing business models & innovative funding through PPP instruments in respect of the following:-
a. Industrial Corridor: Delhi-Mumbai industrial Corridor along side Western Dedicated Freight Corridor comprising industrial hubs, rail-port connectivity, logistics parks, mega power plants and the same in respect of the Ludhiana-Dankuni Industrial Corridor along side Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor
b. Utilising railway land bank along side the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor for starting projects in rolling stock production, assembly facilities and coach rehabilitation at Dankuni-Majerhat-Norpara
c. Private freight Terminals and multi-modal logistics parks
d. Possibilities of PPP/JV in setting up of new coach factory at Kancharapara-Halisahar Railway Complex
e. World-class stations, Multi-functional Complexes, Medical Colleges, Nursing Colleges
f. Setting up of 1000 MW power plant at Adra in collaboration with NTPC
2. Developing business models and strategies for Commercial utilization of railway land and air space
3. To identify from the existing basket of all the economically unviable. Yet socially desirable railway projects, for the purpose of undertaking such projects through innovative funding, including participation of all stake holders and State Governments
4. Review of status of progress of ongoing activities undertaken by Railway
5. To develop vision 2020 for the Railways with appropriate phasing of unfolding this vision, in the short, medium and long term plans of action
6. Any other connected issues that may be referred or entrusted to the Committee

Contact Us:
Member Secretary,
Expert Committee,
Room No.507,
Rail Bhavan,
New Delhi – 110001

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GS IRTSA invites suggestions for Memorandum to Experts Committee on developing Business models and innovative funding through PPP. Suggestions may be endorsed here in reply to this post or may be sent by email to: gsirtsa@yahoo.com

Can GS/IRTSA make the stand of IRTSA on PPP known to us before we give our suggestions?

Railways constitute Expert Committee on innovative funding through PPP

Written by Vijay
Tuesday, 28 July 2009

New Delhi: The Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) has constituted an Expert Committee for developing innovative funding techniques through Public Private Partnership (PPP) instruments.

The expert committee has been specifically asked to consider developing business models in respect of the Delhi – Mumbai industrial corridor, utilizing railway land bank along side the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.

The land is to be utilised for starting projects in rolling stock production, assembly facilities and coach rehabilitation at Dankuni-Majerhat-Nowpara, private freight terminals and multi modal logistics parks, private public participation in setting up the new coach factory at Kanchrappara – Halisahar Railway complex and setting up of a 1000 MW power plant at Adra in collaboration with the NTPC.

The committee, under the chairmanship of Dr Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI has been asked to start offering recommendations within fifteen days of its first meeting. It will identify economically unviable, but socially desirable projects for implementing them through innovative funding. It will also develop Vision 2020 for the railways.

The members of the committee are Shri Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, IAS (Retd), former Rural Development Secretary ; Shri Udayan Bose, Chairman and founding partner, Tamara Capital Partners ; Shri Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman, Indian Venture Capital Fund and Co founder, NASSCOM ; Shri S Kulkarni ; Shri S S Khurana, Chairman, Railway Board ; Shri Shriprakash, Member, Traffic, Railway Board ; Shri Rakesh Chopra, Member, Engineering, Railway Board ; Smt Soumya Raghavan, Financial Commissioner, Railways ; Shri Abdul Kalam, Former CMD, Eastern Coalfields ; Shri V K Agnihotri, Former Member, Railway Board ; Shri S Ramanathan, Former GM, Eastern Railway ; AIRF Representative ; NFIR Representative ; Shri V K Gupta, Adviser (Land and Amenities), Railway Board ; Shri Mahesh.Y. Reddy, Senior Director, FICCI Member Secretary.

The committee will consider developing world class stations and multi functional complexes.It will also review the status of progress of ongoing activities undertaken by the Railways.

Mamata Banerjee, Minister for Railways, had earlier announced the formation of this committee in her Railway Budget speech in the Parliament.

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Experts Committee on developing Business - Suggestions and recommendations:

1) If Chair Car coaches available in all day and night trains, waitlisted passengers will travel (like flights) in Chair Car in stead of travel in General coach when their tickets are not confirmed.
2) Number of reservation counters can be arranged in Banks and petrol bunks so that rush may not be there for railway tickets.

Sai srinivas

(02-18-2010 08:03 PM)agp.icf Wrote:  Can GS/IRTSA make the stand of IRTSA on PPP known to us before we give our suggestions.

IRTSA has always been opposed to PPP (Public Private Participation and had strongly protested against it at RCF, CLW and elsewhere from time to time. In any case Privatisation should not be resorted to merely for augmentation of resources - as proposed in the "Vision of Indian Railways - 2020" as in our opinion, Government has enough resources to meet the requirements of Moderanisation of the Railways.
However, IRTSA would like to have an open debate on the issue - before submiting its views to the Experts Committee on the subject.

H. Singh, GS, IRTSA