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How to make cities resilient

First and foremost, creating a Chief Resilience Officer’s post in the city administration/local government hierarchy; this office is to be the nodal office for implementation of various suggestions as and when funds are made available.
Why MSMEs need more than mere promises on ‘ease of doing business’ and slogans such as ‘Make in India’

After the agriculture sector, the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector is the second-largest employment generator, providing 80% of jobs with just 20% of investment.
Narendra Modi’s employment woes: How Aadhaar-based headcount can help

In order to ensure that the unemployed are not forced to beg or take up crime and other unsocial activities, the US had, as early as in 1935, passed the Social Security Act, under which the Unemployment Insurance programme was set up and Social Security numbers issued to each individual.
What can India learn from Singapore

What can India learn from Singapore, the multi-ethnic, multi-religious state.
Most ministers and babus seldom have the technical know-how required of their roles

The only technical or domain expertise that most ministries boast of is carefully preserved in reams of files zealously guarded by hoards of clerks, section or desk officers, assistant directors, etc.
Elphinstone Road station tragedy: Bailey bridge to the rescue, but it won’t be easy

Army Engineers would have to assemble not only support columns at each end and intermediate locations, but also provide staircase—the whole works.
Maximum city, minimum patience

Mumbaikars, in their daily rush to and from their work locations, rely heavily on the local trains.
What set Indian Railways on path towards derailment? Find out here

Past acts of commision and ommission are now fast catching up with the Railways, and it will be a long and slow struggle before the health of its assets is regained
Suresh Prabhu- led Indian Railways is providing safe and fast rail transport for freight; here’s how

Suresh Prabhu, the minister of railways, is a man in a tearing hurry. For he has to make up for the lack of any significant addition over the last two decades to the infrastructure of this 65,000-km-long network.
Railway trains from Bhilai steel plant can make Maoists, Naxals infested Bastar bloom

Bordered in the by Nagpur-Raipur Railway line, in the east by Raipur-Rayagada line, in the south by Rayagada-Koraput-Jagdalpur-Kirandul line and on the west by Nagpur-Kazipet line is a huge swathe of Indian peninsula devoid of any railway network.
For Indian Railways, a dedicated freight corridor has a long way to go

The need for for the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) arose from the fact that two decades of populist Rail Budgets had ended up introducing 5,000 new passenger trains, crowding out the freight, whose average speed had dropped to an abysmal 25kph.
Kolkata Metro: The oldest metro rail system in India shows signs it will pick up pace

In spite of a head-start of more than three decades, the Kolkata Metro has lagged behind its younger sibling, the Delhi Metro.
To ensure food security, it is time to revisit the mega food park model in India

A maximum grant of R50 crore is given for setting up a MFP, in minimum 50 acres of contiguous land with only 50% contribution to the total project cost.
How Indian Railways will help Coal India achieve mammoth 1 bn tonne 2020 target

Multiple joint ventures by Indian Railways with states and PSUs in mineral-rich areas bode well for coal, iron-ore production and logistics
Tracking Indian Railways: Decisions based on gut reaction can lead to costly mistakes

Unfortunately, the present set of statistical data, collected often on an yearly basis, is mostly to evaluate operational performance
Kolkata Metro & RVNL: Network set for quantum jump, time for Mamata to remove obstacles

With a pan India presence, RVNL has a team of no less than 27 chief project managers located at various cities.
Reservation charts & printed tickets in your railway journey may soon be things of past!

Reservation charts and printed tickets in the Indian Railway universe may soon be things of the past
Binding India with ribbons of steel

Slowly but surely, the Northeast is getting connected to the rest of India
Railway Budget 2016: Suresh Prabhu’s time to deliver now

Railway Budget 2016:The most important part of the minister’s speech was the setting up of
seven missions for attaining key long-term objectives for Indian Railways
For Indian Railways, the customer must always come first

With the rail network no longer being the preferred mode of transport for the cost-conscious private sector, all stops must be pulled to get them on board.
The dawn of a new rail era

Bullet trains will help save on the nation’s fuel bill, reduce air pollution, road congestion and connected accidents
Scripting a change

Suresh Prabhu had last year embarked on a crusade to revamp Indian Railways on a massive scale, and in the process has been removing whatever obstacles may come in the way, a virtual ‘Vighnaharta’.
Suresh Prabhu on fast track

The minister has given a major push for doubling, gauge conversion and other initiatives to build track capacity so that the logjam on some of the key sections can be removed. He is also focusing on improving passenger amenities
Ircon, a Navratna in the making

Spreading its wings, the Miniratna has been successfully completing rail, road, metro works and is constructing multifunctional complex buildings
Operation ‘bootstrap’ for the Railways

In a move that could be a game-changer, a new Indian Railways General Management Service may come into being very soon in order to keep a check on the virus of departmentalism which has been its bane for over two decades.
Introducing competition in Indian Railways

In Europe, a large number of private operators have entered the railway system and have changed the way people commute by train

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