Since its inception, Indian Railways has successfully played the role of the prime carrier of goods and passengers in the Indian subcontinent. As the principal constituent of the nation’s transport infrastructure, the railway has an important role to play.
(a) It helps integrate fragmented markets and thereby stimulates the emergence of a modern market economy.
(b) It connects industrial production centres with markets as well as sources of raw materials and thereby facilitates industrial development.
(c) It links agricultural production centres with distant markets as well as sources of essential inputs, thereby promoting rapid agricultural growth.
(d) It provides rapid, reliable, and cost-effective bulk transportation to the energy sector; for example, to move coal from the coalfield to power plants and petroleum products from refineries to consumption centres.
(e) It links people with places, enabling large-scale, rapid, and low-cost movement of people across the length and breadth of the country.
(f) In the process, Indian Railways has become a symbol of national integration and a strategic instrument for enhancing our defence preparedness.
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