mr. suresh prabhu presented in the parliament the last separate rail budget of india.
mr. suresh prabhu presented in the parliament the last separate rail budget of india.
who presented in the parliament the last separate rail budget of india?
mr. suresh prabhu
the inauguration of the gatimaan express by railway minister mr. suresh prabhu on 5 april 2016 ushered the beginning of semi-high speed trains in india. the gatimaan express runs at the top speed of 160 km/hr from delhi to agra. with the great success of gatimaan express, the indian railways plans to start additional semi-high speed services along the delhi - bhopal / chandigarh / kanpur routes shortly. railway minister mr sadananda gowda mentioned in his rail budget 2014 speech that the railways will start high speed trains at on 9 routes.indian railways is also testing to increase the speed of the delhi-mumbai rajdhani express train. dual locomotives are used for this purpose, one at each end. thus accelerating and decelerating from both ends. proposed increased speed will be 160kmph between delhi-mathura stretch and 130kmph for the remaining stretch. while indian railways is bringing bullet train from japan, it is doing all possible things to cut down the cost for high speed rail operation by indigenously developing technologies.
high-speed rail in india
section::::comments in recent years.:the merger of railway budget with union budget (2016).









































in a sweeping recast of india’s annual budget process, the government ended the 92-year-old practice of having a separate rail budget. commenting on this, chairperson moily said, """[w]e will discuss this issue with statistics and planning department, and also with the finance ministry. railway board, an important cog in this merger process, too will be consulted on the impact of this budgetary reform on railways as an organization".""









































section::::comments in recent years.:punjab national bank fraud (2018).
standing committee on finance