Eat-Sleep-Railfanning 🔄 Repeat - Shankar Mehani

BEST BUDGET by our RM with Rs 1.2 lac crores of capital expenditures with 2000 km Electrification and 2800 km New Lines.
If our RM inducts more than 2 lac crores of Rupees with 4000 km Electrification and 5000 km New line, then this shall be an EXCELLENT BUDGET and then only the length and breadth of our country Railway Projects works executed can be ascertained by all. .
Welcomes all the enhanced measures for Senior citizens and Women members.
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AC fares have to be decreased or withdrawn the additional service tax charges and S/F surcharges also decreed on distance slabs.
Last Budget RM emphasized that all the major trains shall be augmented first to 24 coaches and further increased to 26 coaches.
And moreover no new trains have to be introduced to avoid already congested track traffic.All the 18 coach trains have to be augmented first to 24/26.
RM very much emphasized to augment major trains to 26 coaches in the last budget.
But RM and Railway Board are completely forgotten that Augmentation of coaches.
Requested to augment coaches in all routes especially in CHENNAI METRO to MUMBAI METRO.
EXAMPLE;
3 daily trains are operated between these two metros with 18 coaches including one pantry car.
Daily ,In total only 4 nos of 3AC Coaches are operated between these two metros as follows .Dadar exp 3AC TWO coaches + Mumbai Mail 3AC one coach+ Mumbai exp 3AC one coach.But from Chennai Egmore to southern district each trains are having 6 nos of 3AC Coaches.
So i frequently requested to operate sectional coaches in these 3 trains from CHENNAI TO PUNE comprising 3 nos of sleeper +2 nos of 3AC +1 no of general coach in each trains so as to avoid 24 coach accommodation congestion in MUMBAI.
Till date no direct trains from PUNE to CHENNAI and other southern states capital Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram.
Since PUNE Mini Metro City comes under very meager pooled quota in all the southern state trains ,it is very difficult to obtain reserved ticket in sleeper and 3AC.I always booked upto KALYAN and get down at PUNE under proper intimation to TTE .
Instead of new trains from PUNE to all the southern state cities Sectional Coaches or Link Trains have to be arranged.