Rail Land Development Authority

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Indian Planning Commission has estimated a requirement of Rs 2,027,169 crores (US $ 494 Billion) as investment in infrastructure during the Eleventh Plan period. Of this, the requirement for Railways is anticipated as Rs 2,80,000 crores (including Rs 30,000 crores only for the Dedicated Freight Corridor). As much as Rs 2,32,400 crores (83%) of this requirement is expected to be met by investment from the public sector.The need for considerable increase in internal generation of resources for such investment had been realized by the Indian Railways a long time back. However, focused efforts in this direction commenced in 2001 when the idea of setting-up a special purpose vehicle to generate non-tariff revenues through commercial exploitation of railway land took shape. The efforts culminated in the constitution of Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) on 1.11.2006.