On the loop line

In 2013, the Indian Railways is building the world's tallest rail bridge in Jammu and Kashmir. Yet it struggles to perform the most mundane tasks, such as keeping platforms clean. Its capacity to build the infrastructure that India needs is consistently shortchanged by its inability to run a financially disciplined organisation, primarily because of political compulsions. Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had an opportunity on Tuesday to initiate a break from this dismal pattern.

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