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Railway budget size increases by 52 per cent

| | Feb 26, 2015, at 10:19 pm
New Delhi, Feb26 (IBNS) Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has announced the size of the Plan Budget has gone up by 52 per cent from Rs. 65,798 crore in 2014- 15 to Rs. 1,00,011 crore in 2015-16.

He told the parliament on Thursday that  Central Government constitutes 41.6 per cent  of the total Plan Budget and Internal generation 17.8  per cent.

He said in view of the fact that it would be a challenging task to initiate the mobilization of extra-budgetary resources, a proposal was made to to set up a Financing Cell in the Railway Board, which would seek the benefit of advice from experts in this field.

The Railways Minister informed the members that for financing remunerative projects through market borrowings, it is intended to tap low cost long term funds from insurance and pension funds, multi-lateral and bilateral agencies which can be serviced through incremental revenues.

Railways will create new vehicles to crowd in investment from long-term institutional investors and other partners, he said.

These may include setting up an infrastructure fund, a holding company and a Joint Venture with an existing NBFC of a PSU with IRFC, for raising long term debt from domestic as well as overseas sources, including multilateral and bilateral financial institutions that have expressed keen interest in working closely with Railways in this endeavor. Railways will monetize its assets rather than sell them, he the minister added. 

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