BHARAT BHUSHAN PARSOON COMMITTEE

About: 

• Background: The move comes six years after the country’s first privately owned metro network, Rapid Metro Rail Gurgaon Limited, started its operations.
  
  
• Mandate: It will look at the need to revise the fares, with both upward and downward revision possible for fare fixation of Rapid Metro Rail Gurgaon Limited. The metro network currently has fixed fare slabs of Rs. 20 and Rs. 35.
  
  
• Composition: The three-member panel will be headed by Justice (Retd.) Bharat Bhushan Parsoon, Punjab and Haryana High Court.
  
  
• Parent act: The panel has been constituted under the Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002, for a period of three months.