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Posted: Sep 19 2020 (23:58)
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Last Response: Sep 20 2020 (07:10)
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Last Response: Sep 20 2020 (07:10)
Looking at the present condition of Indian Railway. Separate Railway Budget is stopped. Now from last many years New trains are given mainly to Election bound States, specially to states where Government thinks they have chances of winning the election, they give New trains. If we remember last year there was Orissa state elections help where our Central government had very very less chances of winning. If i remember correctly, hardly any new train was given to Orissa state before election. Only Gondwana exp got extended till Sambalpur but that was also not Daily.
So, if earlier Separate railway Budget was not there and this policy would have been followed then today there had been a very...
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So, if earlier Separate railway Budget was not there and this policy would have been followed then today there had been a very...
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You have pointed out the correct things. Rail was used for vote politics for decades. Nothing new about it. But now-a-days, the central Govt is doing dirty things to it as you mentioned. Doing infrastructural development increased in recent years, no doubt. But passenger service, revenue does not improved. Even after doing privatization, initially rail will earn a good revenue from the private players. In long term, private player will withdraw their service because they don't want to be part of politics in place of profit. Finger crossed.
Problem is that with Railway budget, each MP demanded train for their area. Tracks got saturated without much infrastructure improvement. Now you see many tracks are getting upgraded to 130kph. This should have happened decades ago. I don't think many viable trains are being cancelled. Some trains like Toofan deserve to be cancelled. Odisha govt is ally of Centre. So if demand is there, I'm sure IR will start operating more services. Maybe the MPs from Odisha have not been active enough to demand trains from RM?
Yes i agree earlier each MP demanded train for their area, i will say it was good that earlier each MP demanded a new train from their area and trains were given , otherwise think as per present situation, if those trains were not given and this present procedure of giving trains on to election winning possibility states were given then there would have been a huge scarcity of trains for poor and middle class people. Yes i agree some useless trains were given at that time but that trend is still going on now say there r many useless political trains are given now also and see there r so many loss running Humsafar trains given on political grounds. So that trend didn't change now also. But now see what's going on Sleeper class and General Class coaches are getting reduced, small stations stoppages are...
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