Rail Budget 2013: Ministers and their fetish for new trains over the years

Tracking ministers & their fetish for new trains

Announcement of new trains is a permanent feature of India’s railway budgets, and this number keeps growing with each passing year.

Pawan Kumar Bansal, the current railway minister, too, is expected to announce a record 100 new trains when he presents the budget of his ministry today.

ET takes a look at plan outlays & the operating ratio reported over the years: