On Tuesday 04 August 2009, jtd wrote: > > So we have 18000Km for conversion at a likely 2007 cost of Rs.91 lacs per > Km. > > We will be spending Rs.16513 Cr. of public money because of the folly of > multiple standards. In the case of railways at least some of these lines > were built by independent railway companies without a central standard. > > Only an idiot will commit a folly of proposing and approving multiple > standards when there exists an opportunity of avoiding it.
And the above cost is conservative according to this project for conversion http://www.rvnl.org/project/project_desc.php?id=43 200Cr for 62Km. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
