{"id":654682,"date":"2025-12-02T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=654682"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:35:43","slug":"private-companies-may-get-to-service-non-railway-entities-wagons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/private-companies-may-get-to-service-non-railway-entities-wagons\/","title":{"rendered":"Private companies may get to service non-railway entities&#8217; wagons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Indian Railways is weighing a plan to let private players maintain freight wagons, a move that can open a new services market and ease capacity constraints in its overhaul depots, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal, now under discussion, will allow privately-owned container wagons to be serviced by non-railway entities, with tariff rebates being considered for rake owners that opt for self-maintenance, officials said. &#8220;There is significant private sector presence in container wagons, and it would be the first in which private maintenance may be permitted,&#8221; a senior official told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Indian Railways is weighing a plan to let private players maintain freight wagons, a move that can open a new services market and ease capacity constraints in its overhaul depots, according to people familiar with the matter. The proposal, now under discussion, will allow privately-owned container wagons to be serviced by non-railway entities, with tariff rebates being considered for rake owners that opt for self-maintenance, officials said. &#8220;There is significant private sector presence in container wagons, and it would be the first in which private maintenance may be permitted,&#8221; a senior official told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}