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The Indian Planning Commission has estimated a requirement of Rs 2,0272 billion (US$494 billion) as investment in infrastructure during the Eleventh Plan period. Of this, the requirement for Railways is anticipated as Rs 2800 billion (including Rs 300 billion only for the Dedicated Freight Corridor). As much as Rs 2324 billion (83%) of this requirement is expected to be met by investment from the public sector.〔Consultation Paper on Projections of Investment in Infrastructure during the Eleventh Plan: Planning Commission (October 2007)〕 The need for considerable increase in internal generation of resources for such investment had been realised by the Indian Railways for some time. However, focused efforts in this direction commenced in 2001 when the idea of setting up a special purpose vehicle to generate non-tariff revenues through commercial exploitation of railway land took shape. The efforts culminated in the setting up of the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) on 1 November 2006. ==Purpose== RLDA is a statutory Authority under the Ministry of Railways, Government of India, set-up by an Amendment to the Indian Railways Act, 1989, for development of vacant railway land for commercial use for the purpose of generating revenue by non-tariff measures. The RLDA (Constitution) Rules, 2007, were laid down on 4 January 2007. The Executive Board of RLDA consists of Member Engineering/Indian Railways Board as ex-officio Chairman, one Vice Chairman and four Members. Vice Chairman and other Members (except Member/Real Estate) took up their posts in January 2007. Indian Railways has approximately 43,000 hectares of vacant land. Land which is not required for operational purposes in the foreseeable future will be identified by the zonal railways and the details will be advised to the Railway Board. Such plots of land would then be handed over to the RLDA by the Railway Board in phases for commercial development. The first batch of thirteen sites was entrusted to the RLDA for commercial development by Ministry of Railways in February 2007. Ten of these sites were expected to come up for financial bidding in 2008. By 22 February 2008, 109 plots of land had been entrusted to the RLDA by the Ministry of Railways.〔(RLDA Website )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rail Land Development Authority」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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