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Posted: Sep 19 2020 (23:58)
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Last Response: Sep 20 2020 (07:10)
3 Responses
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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1 Public Posts - Sun Sep 20, 2020
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?
1 Public Posts - Sun Sep 20, 2020