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THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF INDIA 193
c1asses:( 1) ownership, (2) management and (3) statutory
control of private companies in regard to financing. construction
as well as man.agement including expenditure.
Previously, all these functions used to be taken care of
by rhe Public W orks Depa~tment of the Government of
India through its Railway Branch. 10 In 1905 a special
-organization known as the Railway Board was instituted
.as a limb of the Department of Commerce and Industry.
~d this has been reorganized in 1924 with enlarged
functions and responsibilities as the central authority in
railway matters. The Board consists of a chief commissioner
who is not bound. by the votes of the other
members, a financial commissioner a mechanical engineer
as technical expert, and a member for administration,
personal and techinque. The Railway Board is assited by
five directors, one for each of the following items: civil
en.gineering, mechanical engineering, traffi-c, finance and
establishments. It is to the Railway Board as thus constituted
that the Agent of each railway line is responsible.
It is interesting to observe that although the Indian
Tailways have been getting more and more statalized in
.all respects, they have been, curiously enough, at the
same time acquiring or rather developing their character
more and more as •• commercial" or moneymaking
concerns. It is in keeping with this commercial idea of
railways as business undertakings that a Central Publi.
city Bureau has been established at Delhi in 1928. 11
Cinema films are being produced and demonstration
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. 10 See the appendix on the "organisation for Government control"
. in the Report (1932). vol. I. pp. 95.100.
. 11 The latest account of publicity work may be seen in the Report
{1932). vol. I. pp. 80·84.
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