Railways in Colonial India: An Economic Achievement? Dan Bogart* Latika Chaudhary† May 2012 1 Introduction Railways were the most important infrastructure development in India from 1850 to 1947. They were inter-connected with all aspects of Indian society. In terms of the economy‚ railways played a major role in integrating markets and increasing trade. Domestic and international economic trends shaped the pace of railway construction and the demand
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Scheme for Railway Staff taking voluntary retirement Indian Railways is all set to start new scheme for its employees who take voluntary retirement from service. Under the safety related retirement scheme‚ railways will provide employment to one of the family member of the retiring employee. This scheme can be availed by an employee‚ aged between 50-57 and employed under the safety category‚ who have completed the minimum tenure of 20 year service. General Secretary of All India Railway Federation
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new development‚ etc. of drugs. Include appropriate graphs showing the difference between monopoly pricing and competitive pricing. The drug industry currently takes on both monopolistic and competitive market structures. When a drug company develops a new drug‚ there are patent laws that allow the company to have a monopoly on selling the drug. In the short-run‚ the company is able to charge the monopoly price (above marginal cost) and maximize profit by producing the quantity where marginal
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RICARDO SEMLER AND SEMCO S.A. * Mr. Ricardo Semler‚ One of the youngest ever MBA graduate from Harvard took control of his parental business at the age of 24. * He renamed the company SEMCO‚ implemented the aggressive product diversification strategy and consequently within 6 years SEMCO transformed to $100 million Company from $35 million. * Right from the first day he was focussed to diversification as his belief was that diversification in other product line can save the future
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Indian Railways has a wide network throughout the nation. With the help of this widely spread railway networks‚ you can reach any place of India. Both passengers and freight can be transported to anywhere of India by the help of Indian Railways. This also creates impact on the Indian Economy. This article deals with how Indian Railways impact the Economy of India or the impact of Indian Railways on the Indian economy. India is a land of diverse culture as well as religion. In different parts of
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SAFETY PROBLEMS OF RAILWAY PASSANGERS IN EXPRESS RAILWAYS Although Indian Railways have progressed a lot‚ both quantitatively and qualitatively‚ during the last few years‚ this system is still plagued by a number of problems which require immediate attention. A lot has been done‚ but a lot more is yet to be done. Some of the major problems faced by the Indian Railways are briefly discussed as under: Safety Indian Railways have been in the news albeit for wrong reasons. With the rapid increase
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E-PROCUREMENT FOR INDIAN RAILWAYS Guide FOR Vendor IREPS HOME PAGE ireps.gov.in The detailed process of New Vendor Registration is as explained below. Before submitting registration request‚ please see the multimedia module and User Manual. Please go to: Homepage(ireps.gov.in) => Learning Centre =>Multimedia Module OR Vendor User Manual Please fill up the registration request form by clicking on the link New Vendors. Your user ID and password will be sent to your e-mail. IREPS LOGIN
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The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) is a public sector company set up and fully owned by the Ministry of Railways. The IRCTC has been incorporated under the Companies Act 1956‚ has its Registered Office at 9th Floor‚ Bank of Baroda Building‚ Sansad Marg‚ New Delhi 110001. This company has been formed to function as an extended arm of the Indian Railways to upgrade‚ professionalize and manage the catering and hospitality services at stations‚ on trains and other locations
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PROBLEM STATEMENT: This RAILWAY RESERVATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM should be able to manage all the reservation related functions. The system should be distributed in nature. This system is divided into five zones. NORTH ZONE SOUTH ZONE EAST ZONE WEST ZONE CENTRAL ZONE Each zone should have same functionalities. Each zone will stores the information about train name‚ train schedules‚ availability. The administrator should be able to enter any change related to the train information like change in train
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Indian Railways has a wide network throughout the nation. With the help of this widely spread railway networks‚ you can reach any place of India. Both passengers and freight can be transported to anywhere of India by the help of Indian Railways. This also creates impact on the Indian Economy. This article deals with how Indian Railways impact the Economy of India or the impact of Indian Railways on the Indian economy. India is a land of diverse culture as well as religion. In different parts of
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