As an initial step, the Ministry of Railways will invite private players in the next 15 days to start the bidding process for these routes. Here's what a private player operating on these railway routes would mean. Moreover, the private players will be given the choice to get their own trains or they can even opt to lease state-owned trains from the Indian Railways. Within a week, the Railways Ministry will be calling for an important meeting with the interested private players and will address any issue or query raised by them. The sources added that four to five private players may be picked up by the Ministry that can be seated on board to run private player operated trains.

Source: dna December 30, 2019 15:00 UTC