Creating parallel railway infrastructure for private companies to operate trains will be a challenging and complex task in a country like India where acquiring few acres of land taking decades. Instead allow them to use existing IR infrastructure and charge them as per norms. i think better govt. to come out of transport operation business since govt has other priority tasks like welfare, employment, development, security...etc. when common man using private buses in many places where govt, buses not available or less, why not private trains?