[no_toc] Proposals for Farmers The budget has proposed encouraging development of cold storage on vacant land near freight terminals. Local farmers and fishermen would be given preferential usage...
For Reserved Passengers Three train services viz. Humsafar, Tejas and UDAY have been introduced for reserved passengers. Humsafar service would be fully air conditioned third A/C service with...
The Railway Budget 2016-17 is pegged at Rs. 1.21 Lakh Crore, which stands 21% higher than previous budget. Following are the capacity augmentation proposals. Commissioning of Broad Gauge...
In the Railway Budget 2016-17, the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has announced 7 activities to be conducted in mission mode under the umbrella of “Avataran”. These missions are as follows:...
In the last year budget, the Railway Ministry had promised to set an innovation council called “Kayakalp” which might come up with cost saving innovations in railway functioning....
SRESTHA refers to Special Railway Establishment for Strategic Technology & Holistic Advancement. This is a proposed special unit of Indian Railways comprised mostly of scientists and railway experts....
Indian railways, as pointed out by Railway Minister, are faced with two headwinds, entirely beyond its control. Firstly, the tepid growth of core sector in the economy leads...
GDP measures the total output of goods and services for final use occurring within the domestic territory of a given country, regardless of the allocation to domestic and...
In January 2015, the MOPSI had released the new series of national accounts, revising the base year from 2004-05 to 2011-12. With this, the GDP at Factor Cost...
Economy refers to production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in a geographical region. The inputs to the production process are called factors of production. There are...
