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News Entry# 289056
Dec 19 2016 (09:12) THE `40,000-CR PLAN TO EASE YOUR TRAIN COMMUTE (paper.hindustantimes.com)
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Dec 19 2016 (9:12AM)
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Dec 19 2016 (9:12AM)
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Railway minister Suresh Prabhu on Sunday said the BJP-led governments in the Centre and the state have planned a Rs40,000-crore infra boost to improve Mumbai’s lifeline...

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Dec 19 2016 (19:01)
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Maharashtra is top GDP US$250 billion and richest state of india. But in railways Mumbai & Maharashtra state is neglected from long time. So it need to develop the rail structures in mumbai & maharashtra along with all indian states.
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Dec 19 2016 (19:20)
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What about other metros like Chennai where IR spent everything to build their suburban network or convert to BG?
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It has nothing to do with local bodies or state govt. funding IR network. Why should they? Will they get any profit from IR from ticket sales. So the ever increasing fleet of BMTC which is a self sustaining entity and is the lifeline of the city. Also local bodies get hardly a few hundred crores or thousand crores as taxes and other revenue, to spend it for the IT crowd to travel
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faster to E-City and WFD is sheer waste. Let them take bus like other commoners or give up their cars.

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Dec 19 2016 (19:23)
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True. Zero development of Gadchiroli district. The people are totally cut off due to rivers. Many trying to cross in coracles across Godavari are swept away. Thank god the great man R. R. Patil got the bridge to connect the district to Kaleswaram in TS. Now all travel to HYD for hospital and to earn a livelihood.
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Dec 19 2016 (19:29)
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All state RTCs have a pricing of factor 1. That is 1 rupee for a Km in express buses and a little less in village buses. BMTC though costly is self-sustaining. Efficient and clean. Not a burden on state exchequer.
TN is the only state which heavily subsidises bus fare. Welfare states look alluring but will collapse one day because of the sheer burden of subsidies.
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Dec 20 2016 (14:10)
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A majority of taxes collected by the central govt by way of income tax, excise/ST etc are reverted back in thousands of crores to states by way of annual plan assistance and other funds by the Centre. These businesses, salaried persons who directly & indirectly contribute to the taxes/duties are facilitated by suburban travel, the subsidy of which is borne by IR, where as benefit is reaped by the state govt. Logically, a part of the revenue should be directly given by central govt to IR for the subsidy borne by IR, but unfortunately that did not happen. So IR ask directly to states to contribute/ participate & state govt readily agrees in many cases.
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the losses by indisrciminately increasing freight fare and lost its market share to road/air mode. This way negligence of IR by center has made IR a financially sick organisation. RMs (mis)used scarce IR funds to buy votes rather than to improve the IR. The result is before us, a cash strapped IR taking hundreds of steps (often unethical) just to increase the revenue in order to meet the necessary expenses.

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