The Jet Airways case has takeaways for the bankruptcy code as well as for other airlines. Comment.

It has been two months since Jet has stopped all flight operations. The lenders to the Jet Airways have finally decided to take it to the National Company Law Tribunal and start the insolvency proceedings in order to recover the ..

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How is Indian government going to fix the issues which are stippling its Indian Airline industry?

The Civil Aviation Ministry has recognised the fact that the domestic carriers need to be given a level playing field. After the Jet Airways was grounded there were obvious airline capacity shortage problems. The Domestic players in Airlines have to ..

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Discuss the extent, issues and possible remedies towards problems of Rail Finances in India

Extent and issues with Rail Finances About 94 percent of the system’s revenues are spent on operating costs leaving little to modernize its creaking infrastructure. Under investment in railways Social service obligations like subsidizing passenger services. As per recent report ..

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Why India lacks way behind Sri Lanka and Singapore in development of Trans-shipment ports? Discuss the geographical / political reasons along with highlighting the government efforts so far.

The Indian port sector plays a vital role in sustaining growth in the country’s trade and commerce. But Indian ports are missing out on one of the most promising areas in the international maritime business-cargo transshipment Transshipment is the act ..

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For the last few years, non-major ports in India are gaining more share of cargo handling in comparison to the major ports. While analyzing the reasons of this trend, discuss what policy measures should be taken towards development of non-major ports in India.

India has 7516 km long coastline dotted with 12 major and around 180 minor ports. Major ports are under the jurisdiction of Central government while non-major ports are under state governments. The Economic Survey 2016-17 has observed that share of ..

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To avoid frequent train derailments across the country, government is planning to introduce "ultrasonic broken rail detection system". Discuss the merits in this system while elucidating its key features.

Over the last few years, India has witnessed frequent rail accidents. Out of the total 586 accidents reported in the last five years, nearly 53 per cent were due to derailments mainly caused by broken or ruptured rail tracks. To cope ..

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