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News Entry# 288434
Dec 13 2016 (07:38) Draft policy on suburban rail puts major onus on States (www.thehindu.com)
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Putting to rest the public demand for suburban trains, particularly in Bengaluru, the Ministry of Railways has come out with a draft Suburban Rail System Policy...

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Dec 13 2016 (12:09)
Rang De Basanti^   58628 blog posts
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nice!
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Dec 13 2016 (18:59)
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(1) Good step which should have been taken long ago.
(2) Suburban trains should be operated on large scale on the dedicated tracks.
(3) Moving a step forward, IR must plan to have separate tracks for Suburban and long distance trains in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai etc and form a JV with respective state govts. to operate the respective suburban trains. Major part of the taxes and economic benefits due to the daily commuters directly or indirectly go the respective state govt., it is duty of state govt and not IR to
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provide subsidised travel to these daily commuters in return.
(4) Cheap Suburban travel is a subsidy given by IR to relatively rich residents of metro cities at the cost of general (rural/small town)populace of country which are relatively much poorer.

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Dec 13 2016 (19:01)
Rang De Basanti^   58628 blog posts
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Cities like Ahmedabad, Nagpur shd also be catered at this stage now,,,
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Dec 13 2016 (19:11)
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I.R.needrejuvenation~   1946 blog posts
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Why not!!
Ahmedabad/ Nagpur has more population today as compared to Mumbai when the first suburban train was introduced in Mumbai several decades ago!
But it has to be preceded by a proper study of traffic, routes and techno-economic analysis.
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