Railway budget
16-06-2009
Madan Menon Thottasseri
During the last few years the Railway Budgets have come out with a bouquet of offers for passengers and corporate by rightly using a series of marketing techniques purportedly to support the demanding needs of the market economy.
Each year the Budget gave emphasis on the big task of gauge conversions, one of the critical factors for improvement of rail transport services. The fact remains that it is neither the operational viability nor the feasibility for enhanced traffic earnings that entails an M.G.line for conversion, but the strength of political lobbies on its favour.
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1Mumbai - Chennai Train Travel
The Chennai - Mumbai train route has been neglected since last 30 years. It is often called as the "GOD FORSAKEN" route as no railway minister has so far done any improvement. For a distance of 1200 KM, one has to travel 24 Hours. From Mumbai there are atleast half a dozen trains to Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and dozen trains to Delhi, UP, Bihar and Kolkatta but Chennai where the traffic is significantly high is not given an Extra Train. Rampant Beggar Menace, Frequent Thefts, Poor quality of Food are other problems in this route. Passengers are forced to travel by Air due to non-availablity of ac car tickets. When will Railways take action?, Who will own the responsibility for this slip shod services?
Posted by on 2009-07-11 17:24:29.498102+05:30
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2show mercy
its an infortmative article,the so called people's polictician's should look in to this matter.a small suggestion to the authour that please have a detailed study on the survey matter,i think the first survey has been done in the year 1942.thank u...unni
Posted by on 2009-07-01 13:12:06.119045+05:30
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3absolutely jobless
Utter nonsense..... thanks for wasting our time ...
Posted by on 2009-07-01 09:29:01.746347+05:30
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