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  Railways privatisation: First set of private trains to be introduced by 2023

  Business | July 19, 2020 19:42 IST

  The first set of 12 private trains will be introduced in 2023, followed by 45 more in the next fiscal, according to an initial timeline drawn by the railways which plans to roll out all 151 such train services by 2027.

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  IRCTC to take over test runs for privatisation of certain trains; 'flexible' prices to be decided soon

  August 20, 2019 19:09 IST

  In a bid to privatise the running of certain trains, IRCTC has decided to start with test running of two trains. Tejas Express trains between Ahmedabad - Mumbai and Delhi - Lucknow will be the first trains to run as test cases, sources said on Tuesday.

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  Railway officials meet stakeholders to finalise private operations of two trains

  India | July 11, 2019 21:12 IST

  Among those present in the meeting were rolling stock manufacturers, officials of airlines, cruise lines and even travel agents, besides officials of Niti Ayog, Department of Economic Affairs and the Department of Logistics under the Ministry of Commerce, they said.  

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  No proposal to privatise Railways: Union Miniter Piyush Goyal

  India | July 10, 2019 14:12 IST

  He was asked whether he is aware that a report submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2018 had highlighted challenges presented by largescale privatisation to the protection of human rights.

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  No plans to privatise Rajdhani, Shatabdi express trains: Piyush Goyal

  India | June 28, 2019 18:00 IST

  Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that there was were no plans to privatise Rajdhani or Shatabdi express trains.

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  No plans to privatise Railways at present, won't happen in future too: Piyush Goyal

  India | June 11, 2018 16:08 IST

  Addressing a press conference today on the achievements of his ministry in the past four years, Goyal said that there were no proposals for such a move and it would not happen in the future as well.

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  Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu assuages fears over privatisation of Railways

  Politics | December 03, 2014 17:55 IST

  Mumbai:  Union Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu today said the Centre was seeking private capital investment in cash-strapped Railways to meet the resource crunch and it does not amount to privatisation as the Railways unions claim."We