Ok may be you are right I don't know. but to be honest I knew you are going to come up with this.
I knew they were split but even with the split they were massive in scale.
And here is what I read. maybe the author is not as knowledgeable as you are but check the contract size before full electrification was decided and after the full electrification was decided.
You don't have even search I will give you the data here. just have time to read it through.
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in 7 years vs 1 contract 1500 and the minimum contract of 500 directed to electrification directorate.
New Delhi: In a major shift from the past, Indian Railways plans to bid out large tenders as high as 1,500km under the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) model for railway electrification, to achieve its target of full electrification by 2021.
The move will bring electrification costs substantially down for the national carrier, which at present pays around Rs1-2 crore per km for electrification."
Hope you are satisfied with economy of scale argument. And because of economy of scale Self Propelled type Wiring Trains were brought in other wise for small contract it would not make sense.
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The above link is a good read I know it's from Electrical directorate so they will always put positive about electrification but still a good read
I think most of the contract went to RVNL
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I don't understand this statement, I am saying they will continue working on electrified lines. just because you have electrified the whole network doesn't mean you can't use diesel locomotive. they will keep on operating normally.
I like your thinking but just need a little bit of tweak, instead of residential example you should have thought of industrial example. As we are talking about economy in this case.
Most of the industry which needs powers always have a back up generators in case of grid failures.
Come on that's a insult to Modi as a politician, when you say PMO was in favor of Agniveer. Do you agree Modi is a cunning politician ?
Think why would one make people angry and lose votes, he knew he will lose votes when he brought Agniveer. That's where the difference is "country before politics". It was a bitter pill to take but something had to be done the armed forces were desperate, everything is not in the open.
Just like he said he is not a fool to stop Manraga, actually he put more money into it then congress did though he didn't believe in it. But sometimes votes are mote important then you belief.
Well we had issue with export mainly in textiles, which uses a lot of labor, so he was shifted rather then booted, as I said he is sent to places where things are really bad.
Lets count things were done in his tenure of 2017 to 2021
1 Vanda Bharat still came under his period.
2. Electrification
3. Bringing contract working to ICF( I don't know how many people know here but ICF output has increased significantly as there are 4 lines, 3 of them are run by contractors now and only 1 is left to ICF employee. the news wont come out but the contractor efficiency is damn good.( Again I had this chat years ago so I can’t remember accurately how many lines were there)
4. whole ICF was revamped and reequipped, things were take out of that sand from last 50 years and recycled
5 Vista dome coaches
6 During corona virus he took the benefit and finished 200 pending projects
7 tried to finished 5000 unmanned crossing, majority of work was done in his period.
8 Kavach, it was in his period that it was started.
I can keep on going if i search internet but this just on top of my mind.
Well when people don't really have something productive to say they come up with this, I hope we can do better. lets discuss things with data and keep it more informative. just my 2 cents again.
My bad when you said PPP i thought you listened to this video and were commenting on that, that railways is going for EPC model as PPP model the private industry is not that keen as of now.
Everyone including the government was PPP model, I agree on that but according to sudanshumani he is saying it's not happening and I didn't verify the facts.
View: https://youtu.be/fFIhikU6hGY?si=ez3CBvSAnnnMEtXW&t=333
And what every I wrote I can back it up with data, of course that is available on internet.