The Committee recommended that the British-era legacy of having a separate railway budget should be phased out and it should be merged with...

Niti Aayog was mandated by the Prime Minister's Office to work out a detailed plan for integration of rail budget with the general budget.

Radical reforms are needed to raise Railways’ earnings, involve the private sector to step up investment, increase freight volumes and reve...

Bibek Debroy felt that once the Centre implements the recommendations, it's 'impossible' for the states to hold back a hike in their employ...

The move is aimed at improving transparency as the government looks at attracting billions of dollars in investment.

Several members of All-India Railwaymen's Federation, across the country today wore black badges in protest against the recommendations of ...

Suresh Prabhu has ruled out privatization of the state-run transporter and has said that the government was already improving network capab...

The Bibek Debroy Committee, in its recent report, has said the Railways' core activity is to run trains and not to engage in activities suc...

A high-level panel has recommended entry of private players and setting up an independent regulator in the Indian Railways among other prop...

"We have decided to observe black day on June 30 all over the country by wearing black badges," said Shiv Gopal Mishra, General Secretary, ...

Noting that role of private sector was already part of the government policy, Debroy said the panel has only endorsed it and was not a new ...

AIRF has maintained that the system will be destroyed if corporate houses are allowed to run train services as they will charge airlines-li...

The 8-member panel, headed by Debroy, has suggested constitution of a regulatory authority with quasi-judicial powers for turnaround in rai...

Railways should be given autonomy with the government having the role of only framing policy, according to recommendations of a high-level ...

It has also argued that the state governments must share the financial burden with the railways for suburban passenger services and unecono...

"Don't tell us what to do, unless you are prepared to do something," Debroy said during a panel discussion organised by TERI.

In a chat with ET Now, Bibek Debroy, Professor, Centre for Policy Research, shares his views on PM Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech.