Railways in India carries much more utility than any other
amenities being given to the people of the nation but one more thing that’s
certain is that the condition of the railway system is also much worse than
that of other transport services. Even the tagline of Indian railway reads, “
Lifeline of the nation.”
Today the total length of tracks which span across the whole
India is 115,000 km across the whole nation and the no. of passengers
travelling every day is almost humongous. Contemporarily Indian railway serves
8,900 million passengers daily. Today so many citizens of the nation are
enjoying the facilities of the railway system designed in India but
unfortunately the basic design system of the whole of the railways is replete
of flaws which continue to mar the total popularity of the whole of the total railway
system and deplete the credibility as well as the functioning ability of the
whole of the railways.
Recently Mr. Modi, Prime Minister of India proposed to build
a golden corridor of the bullet trains in the whole nation which would connect
the all four metropolitan cities of India namely, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata
and Chennai and this made me think about the current railway system of the
whole nation. Having an outright vision of the future is a must thing for a
leader and Mr. Modi has this thing but one thing that I would like to suggest
him to do besides taking forth his vision for a bullet train, he should also
focus on the laggard system of railways which is now becoming a menace for the
citizens of India day by day.
Here I am suggesting a few measures through which the
various problems tarnishing the Indian railways can be tamed:-
The first and foremost thing to do is to increase the
revenue of the railway system. Because of the vote bank policies of previous
governments Indian Railways has lost much of its share of revenues but now its
high time we, despite of playing the appeasing policies in politics, we look
forward to induce change in the whole of the railway system which would enable the
whole of nation to travel in trains equipped with the best in class
technologies. And hence I suggest that fares of the railways should be revised.
I know the fact that a lot of people who travel through railways are very much
poor and that’s why a pretty small increase should be made in the fares at
first and then every year we can revise the fares a little bit till our demand
becomes equal to the supply and this would lead to huge benefit for the whole
of the railway system and also for all the passengers.
The other thing that needs to be checked in the railway
department is corruption. Today much of the revenues accumulated, are drained
into the pockets of tainted officials at both the grass root level and the
higher level and this ultimately leads to the huge debilitation of money
collected from the people of the nation through various measures like
ticketing, taxes etc. Corruption continues to play a devil’s role in this place
too, and small rackets of corruption by various officials demonises the whole
of the India railway system making it much unpopular among the people.
Therefore corruption needs to be checked in this field through constructive
efforts which are meant to abate the level of corruption to as much as
possible.
The third thing is the lack of technology in handling
people. Today most of people who travel through trains never buy a ticket and
illegally travel taking full benefit of the whole railways without paying
anything and also causing problems for those who have paid. Lack of technology
is also there in the trains which are deployed to carry people. Most of the
passenger trains in India are pretty old and of very bad and vexing quality lacking
any new technology or system. Speeds of these trains also continue to embarrass
whole of the system. At a time when countries are introducing bullet trains, Indian
railways continue to be run on the mercy of old and obsolete trains. Railways lines
are also not pretty good and their bad arrangement has led to derailing of so
many trains making thousands of passengers succumbing to death due to train
related accidents. This thing needs to
be checked for the welfare of people.
Problems like sanitation, wrong signals, and open train
passages continue to haunt people and these things also lead to deaths of
thousands of passengers and therefore should be checked in order to maintain the
trust of the citizens of India into the railway systems.
Today we need to make changes in our system; we need to
overhaul all of the system in order to refurbish it to become an efficient and
efficacious one. Today we need to learn from our losses rather than making new
experiments. Today we need to change.
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