NE Rly projects are mostly with extremely low financial rate of returns (many are negative) are already fast tracked, and atleast 10% of fund is being spent on NE states since decades. Most of the loss making projects are getting annual allocation in several hundreds of crores of Rs where as large number of highly profitable projects in rest of India are getting meagre allocations. Allocating a bigger chunk will put IR on the quick path of financial bankruptcy. This is because, once these projects gets commissioned they will start inflicting operational losses and IR shall be forced to take more and more loans from market at high interests to pay for these losses in addition to repayment of loans taken to implement the projects.
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As a person moves higher up in the ladder of authority and power, financial prudence become more and more essential. IF our honorable MPs standing at very high level on the ladder of our nation put demands (probably to appease their constituencies) without giving a thought on the financial consequences of their fulfilment, future of IR/India is not good.