Suggestions for Railway By Economy India

•  First of All Railways must have separate dept. of Rail Infrastructure development within the ministry. Infrastructure building is hugely required in Railways so separate dept. is utmost needed for the ministry. Formation of infrastructure department is necessary in order to raise funds also for this purpose and also it is necessary to expand infrastructure of railways without any political favoritism region wise and constituency wise.
• Railways should work on long term goal of meeting out on demand service to the passengers as well as to the transporters. For this Railway urgently needs 2 more parallel track throughout the country, thus it require to construct at least 1 lakh kilometer extra new rail track, which can be achieved not through railway alone rather with the help of big corporate of the country and for this we need revenue sharing based private participation in this work.
• Railway has enough capacity to touch its revenue figure of 5 lakh crore per annum in the near future. For this we will have to allow ticket vending system in all train bogies and coaches. Every major stations and all junction must have just double numbers of booking counters what it has now and it is also necessary to allow private players with one rupee per ticket commission over all railway junctions.
• The concept of forming station corporation must be rejuvenated which was proposed by ex Minister Dinesh Trivedi earlier. Railway should fully utilize the revenue potential by checking corruption, leakages, resource utilization, asset utilization, advertising bill boards on its spaces and clearing all scraps
• Rail parcel and good trains must be marketed in a big way with commission basis. What happened in parcel and goods services now, railway merely get one third of revenue what actually it is being expended over it, rest money goes into the pocket of brokers, porters and other middlemen.
• Premium trains must be stopped; this is just looting of needy passengers, what railway is doing that of a ticket broker which charges around 1000 rupees for a ticket which actually cost Rs 200 to 300. If Govt. keep continuing premium trains, it should fix  the maximum charges of the  premium trains not more than double of the actual fare.
• For achieving the 'on demand availability of berths for any destination any time, all efforts must be done by Railways, in terms of increasing number of trains for the busy routes.
• There should be long term planning for TT less trains. This post was suitable for British India, now people are more willing to get confirmed ticket, which is not available. All trains must have metro rail kind of technology. TT must be made coach attendant rather. Initially there should pilot projects for some trains on this.
• Foods charges and description of quantity and quality charts must be tagged in every coach of the trains. There should be heavy penalty over overcharges and under quality of the all food items. The stipulated rate of a meal is Rs 55, whereas it is actually being charged 100 for a meal. The configuration of food items must be strictly maintained. There should be a complain box in every coaches.
• Status of loco pilots must be given similar to plane pilot and there should be proper recreation and refreshment facility for them.
• All railway zones must have status of public corporation and in same manner their whole functioning must be corporatized.
• All station must have RO water station like Chennai where mineral water is filled at the cost of Rs. 3/ per liter
• Rail fare must be allowed to hike by 5 percent per annum
• Railway is ministry which faces maximum no. of complains of corruption. So it must have huge campaign for  eradication of corruption as well as cleanliness for it
• Railway must encourage hiring trainee type of employment as much as possible. There should be proper review of all dept. and wings of railway, where is over staffing and where is under staffing and balance must be brought between the both situations. Any vacancy should be immediately fulfilled through casual or contractual employment.
• Railways must have separate organization for land utilization and it should also form scrap dept.

Loot through Premium trains

Laloo Yadav brought railway in the bribe taker role of TTE by introducing Tatkal seva. He used to say, he is not hiking fare anymore but kept 35 percent ticket in tatkal quota and thus brought railway balance sheet on profit mode. Now in the name of premium train railway has come in role of ticket tout. Tout provide ticket by charging 500-1000 extra and now in the name of premium trains govt. is just looting the needy passengers. This is not fair. You hike your fare by 100 to 200 but do not cheat and deceit people in need. Railway is monopoly org., if it has a competition from private or MNC players, situation may not arised. What happened in telecom, until unless govt. players had a monopoly they used to exploit consumers, but ultimately competitions benefitted consumers? Ultimately you have to provide on demand confirmed ticket in railway. For this railway needed to speed up the investment process. If railway thinks doubling or tripling the fare would bring railway in profit mode, it is not possible. Railway's losses are due to corruption, mismanagement and loot by TTE, Engineers and suppliers.    v