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The high-powered panel has also
asked the national transporter to withdraw from welfare services such as
running schools and hospitals and managing Railway Protection Force (RPF).
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The committee suggested setting
up of a government SPV (with a possibility of disinvesting in the future) to
own railway infrastructure, and delink it from the railways. It suggested an
Indian Railway Manufacturing Company to replace all existing production units
and another holding company for railway stations.
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It also suggested setting up a
regulator - with statutory backing and independent of the railway ministry as
well as the railway board - for fixing tariff, determining cost of service,
managing track access, setting technical standards among other things, after
private players were allowed to run freight and passenger trains. The panel
said it could be called the Railway Regulator Authority of India (RRAI).
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The panel said the rail ministry
should only determine policy and not indulge in day-to-day operations of the
railways. The ministry should set policy for open access and the framework for
the Railway Infrastructure Company, determine the policy for raising resources
for social cost obligations, extending the railway network and offering
on-budget and targeted subsidies to poor passengers who need them.
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It also talked of one ministry of
transport in the future.The panel favoured detaching Kolkata Metro Rail
Corporation from railways which was brought under it during the tenure of
Mamata Banerjee as rail minister.
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