The Ministry of Railways in India is in charge of the Indian Railways, the state-owned company that enjoys a monopoly in Rail transport in India. It is headed by the Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and two ministers of state. Indian Railways (IR) is the state-owned railway company of India having a complete monopoly over the countrys rail transport. ... In economics, a monopoly (from the Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a kind of product or service. ... An Indian Railway Ticket from Chennai to Vijayawada by Howrah Mail. ... Laloo Yadav Laloo Prasad Yadav (officially spelt Lalu Prasad Yadav) (born June 11, 1948) is the chief of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party of India. ...
The first ever railway line on the Indian subcontinent from Boribunder to Thane was opened to traffic on April 16, 1853 and the broad gauge line from the south reached Mangalore by 1907.
However, it was only in October 1984 that the Ministry of Railways decided to take a final location engineering-cum-traffic survey for part of the west coast from Mangalore to Madagaon, a distance of 325 km.
The Southern Railway, which was entrusted with this final location survey, submitted the project report for this route, dubbed the Konkan Railways after the coastline it hugs, to the RailwayMinistry in 1988.
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