Mr. Prabhu!  A Batman...Not sufficient! 

Hi All,

We have always heard about inverse relation between quantity and quality, Indian railway is the live example of this. Having said that it doesn't give the liberty to compromise the safety and services assured to the customers.

Our rail ministry's has always been under scanner due to railways poor operation and services. Indian railway has got the pride of biggest railways network and carry highest nos of passengers per day, but this is the only tag it has. Now a days we keep on listening about the news that Indian rail has found a batman in the form of our Mr. Rail Minister. I suspect this heroic approach of our respected minister and a question rises in my mind the question is quite simple, "How long will he able to help like this?" and "Why not any sustainable model was created till now to fight back the problem we are facing?" Crime against women and lack of minimum services assured to passengers are frequently faced in rail journey. As I mentioned earlier we are talking about the biggest railway network on the earth and this also carries the people who are below poverty line, smart phones having twitter services is far they hardly have money to buy rail ticket. So how to help them? Our approach should be inclusive, rather than concentrating on twitter world. A critical approach is requisite for improvement of system which would ensure the basic services for passengers travelling in general coaches.

A new methodology and revitalization of operation is highly required in railways. Some burning issues are lack of funds, integration with other transport services and lack of transparency. Dependency on foreign investors should be avoided and railways should catch the track towards debt instruments and get benefited of positive atmosphere about India in world market. Recently our dynamic prime minister has signed a bullet deal with Japanese premier but again the project appreciation is under scanner, how many people would prefer this convenience ? Where the cost of per ticket would be equivalent to minimum fare of air service. We should not forget due to lower crude oil prices railways has new competitors as airline companies. To target the transparency issues digitization of services and grievance redressal system should be modified and separate zonal complain officer should be appointed and empowered so that he could take hard decisions if required.  Railways must celebrate festive seasons and holidays rather than considering  this as liability it can only happen when railways would make a sustainable plan for peak timings, it can be predicted right!

Failure of tatkal ticketing  In holiday season is quite obvious and we consider it a part of our system but it can easily be rectified by increasing the numbers of coaches in last hours and convert the waiting into confirm tickets. Which would act as double blade sword at one side it will tear apart the problem of long waiting list which will result into customer delight and on the other side it can stab into the brokers network. I believe problem would be there but we have solution for all of them and here i would like to remind you Mr. Minister you only have 3 years  to work upon the problems.

But I hope Mr. Prabhu will take some fast action as he did in last NDA govt. where he brought lot of reforms in power sector for which everyone still praises him. As I received my PG degree from him so I would like to say one last thing, let's hope His train reaches it's destination as Rajdhani....