Rail Budget is a 'Caring Budget': Chandrajit Banerjee

The Railway Minister has presented a comprehensive and reform-oriented Budget, with issues of contemporary relevance being addressed in a pragmatic and result-oriented manner. The four big goals, namely improving customer experience, ensuring safety, effecting capacity expansion and making railways financially sustainable reflects a business-like approach to decision-making.
 
The engagement of states in taking the Indian rail forward is a laudable suggestion which is in line with the Prime Minister’s approach of cooperative federalism. This would go a long way to help realise the Prime Minister’s dream of bringing railways to the centre stage of economic activity. The Minister has rightly recognised that our vision of achieving high GDP growth and realising the dream of taking the ‘Make in India’ initiative forward would hinge essentially on improving the viability and efficiency of railway operations.
 
This is a ‘Caring Budget’. This cares for the customer. This cares for the environment. This cares for the stakeholders, including the Railway PSUs and the Rail employees and of course this cares about the economy.
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Chandrajit Banerjee is the director general of CII