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Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
The country’s first railway, built by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR), opened in 1853, between Bombay and Thane. The Allahabad-Jabalpur branch line of the East Indian Railway had been opened in June 1867. Bombay to Calcutta.route was officially opened on 7 March 1870. In 1951 the systems were nationalised as one unit, the Indian Railways (IR), becoming one of the largest networks in the world. IR operates both long distance and suburban rail systems on a multi-gauge network of broad, metre and narrow gauges. It also owns locomotive and coach production facilities at several places in India and are assigned codes identifying their gauge, kind of power and type of operation. Its operations cover twenty nine states and seven union territories and also provides limited international services to Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
Indian Railways (IR) is an Indian state-owned enterprise, owned and operated by the Government of India through the Ministry of Railways. It is one of the world’s largest railway networks comprising 115,000 km (71,457.687 miles) of track over a route of 65,436 km (40,660 mi) and 7,172 stations In 2013–14, IR carried 8.425 billion passengers annually or more than 23 million passengers daily (roughly half of which were suburban passengers) and 1050.18 million tons of freight in the year. In 2013–2014 Indian Railways had revenues of Rs:1441.67 billion which consists of Rs:940.0 billion from freight and Rs:375.0 billion from passengers tickets. We will solve many problems and now I will let you know and discuss regarding few important Passengers problems and solutions.
Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
IR has over 1.307 million employees. As for rolling stock, IR holds over 239,281 Freight Wagons, 62,924 Passenger Coaches and 9,013 Locomotives (43 steam, 5,345 diesel and 4,568 electric locomotives). The trains have a 5 digit numbering system and runs 12,617 passenger trains and 7421 freight trains daily. As of 31 March 2013, 20,884 km (12,977 mi) (31.9%) of the total 65,436 km (40,660 mi) route length was electrified Since 1960, almost all electrified sections on IR use 25,000 Volt AC traction through overhead catenary delivery. Now there are 17 zones in Indian Railways.
Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
IR traffic is increasing every year, Railway passengers lose their money as high cancellation charges (hiked by 4 times) and on Tatkal tickets and corruption. People can’t do any thing and they offer bribes to the concerned persons or the concerned people demands bribes. Online reservations solved the problems to some extent. If we implement some more precautionary steps regarding the online process then some more problems can be solved. The percentage of cancellations is increasing day by day. These are added profits by force from the travelers. This type of revenue is dramatically increasing to the railways. We all should feel sad for this type of leeching on the passengers. Railways facilities are increasing but at the same time it should plan a nice and safety and peaceful journey to the passengers. We don’t have high-axil load tracks to introduce the High speed trains. With maximum safety we can run is 100 km/hr and that too in short patches. According to the estimated traffic by the railways – in non-suburban sectors the loss of passenger traffic has been as high as 4 percent. The passenger traffic figures for both suburban and non-suburban show a dip of 2.25 percent. This is alarming trend to the railways. But the trains are still running packed. They may be going full house with twice extra packed including a lot of ticket less travelers on board too. So what we have to do for railways and passengers ?
Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
Indian Railways reported a loss of 30,000 crores in the passenger segment for the year ending March 2014. Railways carry a social obligation of over 20,000 crores . The loss per passenger per KM increased to 23 paise by the end of March 2014.
How to accept the declared loss – if the declared statements are true. If it is true then we can say easily that how the loss occurred to the railways.. It is due to the total neglect and lack of the responsibility regarding the passengers and freight traffic and corruption. Is this acceptable in our country ?
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Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
Solutions: Each and every reserved compartment can accommodate to maximum 72 passengers only. Where as the unreserved compartments can accommodate more passengers. This enables the proper checking of the ticket less travelers. The railways are for the people and business. It should accommodate at least a sitting seat to each and every traveler. Railways should start new trains in the heavy traffic lines. If not corruption, ticket less travelers, thieves, negligence increases and the revenue of the railways will certainly decreases. On week end days and on festivals the number of trains should be increased. It is advisable to start new express trains and passenger trains and increasing the 50% general unreserved compartments for each and every train. Indian Railways must provide minimum comforts to the passengers.
We don’t need the bullet or rocket trains which are not advisable to our track conditions and it is far better to drop the new rail lines for the bullet trains. Instead of that it is advisable to replace the old tracks for the safety of passengers.
Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
Solutions: Each and every compartment should be in hygienic conditions with proper water facility and power. Every TC/TT/TTE should check every compartment on his every duty day and he should report if any lack of service is there in any compartment. Reporting should be there in the next station or junction to clear the problem. If any passenger gives a complaint in any station, take it granted that the concerned TT is not performing his duty. This checking duty should be mandatory to all TTs. They should give day to day report. Or the Indian Railways can create a separate services department.
We can observe the lack of water in a number of compartments and in stations. The lack of water problem in stations and trains can be reduced in a simple way. Ground Bore water systems can be developed in the adjacent lands of the railway lines and water can be supplied without any interruption to each and every railway station even in the peak summer season. Water can be pumped even from kilometers of distance through the pipes to the railway station’s water tanks. Due to this water supply the stations and compartments can also be kept in clean manner.
People strongly believe that there is huge amount of corruption to increase the sales of the cool drinks, water bottles and also for the sales in the railway canteens.
Indian Railways must increase basic facilities.
Solutions: In general our present passenger trains consists 4 to 26 Coaches. Length of the platform will be more than half kilometer. The trains halting time is 1 to 2 minutes. At every small or big railway stations the passengers are increasing. The sequences of the coaches are reversed some times. To identify the reserved or unreserved compartments it takes time to the passengers, and No guidance will be there on the platforms or if present they will not work and no body responds. Within the given short span of 1 to 2 minutes halting time, the people are not able to run on the platforms and enter into the trains. If it is the case for the people with children or patients or aged persons or pregnant women and with luggage what is their condition and position and situation. On the other hand due to the rail track or platform busy or any other reason, almost every train stops at many places or in the outskirts for more than 10 minutes and some times it stops for even an hour also. Each and every passenger is the important person for us and for the railways. So we will instruct to increase the halting time of all trains at the stations for minimum 5 minutes. This will be most useful for all passengers to enter into the train along with their children or persons. And the other most important point is the TTs/TTEs/TCs ( They are paid to check the ticket less travelers only ) will be able to check the ticket less travelers. Different surveys say that there is 40 – 48 % ticket less travelers and in some routes more than 70%. This is due to the intentional ticket less traveling and the persons who are unable to take tickets due to heave crowds at the ticket counters in the stations. So Ticket counters and the staff has to be increased. This type of conditions is also difficult to control the illegal persons and their activities in the stations and in the coaches. So increasing coaches, unreserved coaches, halting time, Water and Toilet facilities and staff will solve the major problems in the IR.