India has The World’s Largest Rail Network in Terms of Passenger Traffic
India has the fourth-largest rallway system in the world, lagging behind only US, Russia and China.The Indian rail network is spread across more than 67,000 km (approximately 93,000 running track ) with about 7,300 stations. The railways run close 10 13,000 passenger trains that carry over 23 mn passengers daily. The Indian Railways transported over 1.2 bn tons of freight In 2017-18. Indian Railways Is the single Target employer in India and eighth largest in the world; employing close to 1.4 mn people.
A public-private partnership (PPP) is a project delivery model whereby private entities undertake large-scale engineering and construction projects, often on works with defined objectives and criteria under the supervision of a government agency for mutual benefit.
BOOT (build, own, operate, transfer) is a project that transfers the risk and responsibility for the design, construction and operation of a large public infrastructure to private developers.