Question : PERFORMANCE BASED RESULTS

(a) whether the Government has introduced performance based result frameworks for various Ministries and Departments;

(b) if so, the manner by which it considers incentivizing this approach for attaining better governance;

(c) the departments which are having better financial discipline and utilization of budget outlay:

(d) whether there is any study of railway performance and financial discipline as it has a separate budget: and

(e) if so, the budgetary support to railways and dividend paid by it during the last five years?

MINISTER OF STATE FOR PLANNING, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SIENCES (DR. ASHWANI KUMER)

(a) :Yes Sir.

(b) : No such mechanism presently exists.

(c) : No such comparative qualitative assessment has been done.

(d) :Railways report their financial performance regularly to the Parliament and Ministry of Finance. Railway Budget is scrutinized by the Parliamentary Standing Committee and annual accounts are audited by Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) and submitted to Public Accounts Committee. Despite a separate Budget, Railways’ working is governed by laid down government financial rules and procedures.

(e) :The budgetary support to Railways and the dividend paid by it in the last five years are as follows:

(Rs. in crore)
Year	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12
Budget Support to Railways	8668	10110	17716	19485	21324	(Provisional)
Dividend paid by Railways	4903	4718	5543	4941	5655	(Provisional)