Title - Encouraging investment in rail infrastructure - The New Indian Express

The East Coast Railway hosted an interactive session for Odisha Government, rail users and investors to showcase Ministry of Railway's new policy on participative models for rail connectivity and capacity augmentation projects through PPP mode.

The session, chaired by Chief Operations Manager GD Brahma, was aimed at familiarising prospective investors to invest in rail infrastructure to facilitate accelerated construction of fixed rail hardware so that suitable infrastructure is put in place in time. 

A presentation on the five generic models such as non-government railway model, joint venture model for operationally bankable projects, projects on build-operate-transfer through competitive bidding, capacity augmentation was made by Chief Transport Planning Manager of East Coast Railway GC Ray who brought out salient features and the advantages for the investors including revenue sharing arrangements.

The meeting was attended by major customers in the government and private sector.