The Bibek Debroy Committee is a high level committee for “Mobilization of Resources for Major Railway Projects and Restructuring of Railway Ministry and railway board. It gave various suggestions to address the concerns. Some of them are as follows:
- Transition to commercial accounting as it is next to impossible to find out the profit with the current accounting method.
- Streamlining of recruitment and HR Process : Currently to look after the railways, recruitment is done via different channels. Committee suggested to have one service i.e Indian railway management service to have better accountability and smooth functioning.
- Railways should focus on core areas and non core areas shall be handed over to other entity like schools, health, running a police force school etc.
- Decentralisation should happen at the bottom level duties. There is a need to delegate enhance powers at zonal level.
- Indian Railway Manufacturing Company: According Debroy, wagons are already produced by the private sector. Coaches and locomotives could follow. Unless they are freed from 59 their constraints, the existing production units will be unable to face this competition, 576 512">
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