- Promoting Competition:
- Ensures fair play and level playing field for stakeholder investment.
- Provides a framework for non-discriminatory open access to DFC infrastructure.
- Regulates tariffs and track access charges.
- This allows private train operators to compete with IRTs (government trains).
- Promoting Efficiency:
- Sets efficiency and performance standards.
- Suggests measures for absorption of new technologies.
- Encourages market development.
- Promotes efficient resource allocation.
- Provides transparency to passenger and freight tariff determination.
- Protects consumer interest by ensuring quality of service and cost optimization.