Ballari Jn - Look around and enjoy the station. A sacred place where Mahatma Gandhi once spent 8 hours. - Vishwanath Joshi

Because of security reasons and also to maintain the whole railway setup, Controlling needs to be kept in the hands of Indian Railways, because private players ftom India as well as Global are involved in this package, so u cannot leave Controlling in the hands of private players. Also, since in IR both government and private players will run trains, so leaving Controlling in the hands of private players with destroy the balance between govt trains and different private companies and also will create chaos. Also, politics is also involved in IR so leaving Controlling in the hands of private players will have regional political influences also more.
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never going to be a profitable. A country where a huge population is middle class and below middle class, how can a costly private train travel with travel time just few hours lesser than Govt runned trains can be profitable. Airlines are favoured by people because travel time is very less compared to trains, but this will not happen in trains. It is i believe a poor strategy by government. I think those private players who have opted out of this pkg has done a clever job.
In India you cannot maintain 160kmph end-to-end because of its geography, culture and habits which vary from one place to another and also population is higher here.

In many countries, railways have been successfully run by private organisations after de nationalisation of railways, for eg, UK, France.

In the USA, bulk of passenger traffic is handled by Amtrak, but it is a PSU.

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you expect private players to maintain the same level of operations, then NO, it would not be enough to run all services profitably. Infact, many services would be culled for want of profitability or be subsidised by govt, which would defeat the whole purpose.

Then there is always fear of crony capitalists taking advantage of the system, govt as such always behaves like a toothless tiger.

Some middle ground will need to be achieved or else, we can all keep mum on this and suffer the travesty which IR doles out in the name of service.

- IR is no longer led by Piyish Goyal, but the new RM is closely associated with Orissa & Patnaik led Orissa State Govt.
- We can hope that RM shall take personal interest in developing world-class rly stn for Bhubaneswar Smart city
- New Rly stn (south of Barang) shall be near to Cuttack ancient capital city & important commercial center. Many trains eastbound trains from BBS/Puri which taking shorter and faster route via naraj and bypassing Cuttack.
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Orissa Govt should plan future expansion of BBS northwards so that the new smart station could become central station of BBS-Cuttack Metropolitan area in long run