WR COMES DOWN HEAVILY
ON TICKETLESS TRAVEL

MUMBAI : In its endeavour to provide better service to its bonafide rail users and also to plug in the revenue loss due to ticketless travel and such other irregularities, WR has been taking steps regularly.

During the month of December 2009, a total number of 117504 cases of ticketless/irregular travel including unbooked luggage were detected resulting into recovery of Rs.324.70 lakh which is 11.35% more than the corresponding month of the last year. Similarly, 188 cases of illegal transfer of reserved tickets were detected and an amount of Rs.149323/- was realised. During the same period, 1019 beggars and unauthorised hawkers were apprehended, out of which 543 were evicted from Railway premises. 68 were charged and an amount of Rs.19180/- was realised as railway dues. 408 persons were got prosecuted of which 401 persons were fined and an amount of Rs.37100/- was collected as fine. 7 persons were sent to jail.

During December 2009, 150 checks were conducted against touts and other unsocial elements. As a result, 1118 persons were apprehended and got prosecuted under various sections of Indian Railway Act, 1989 and out of 1118 persons, 1113 persons were fined and an amount of over Rs.10,3,000/- was recovered from them. Five persons were sent to jail.

The performance of Surakshini Squad has been satisfactory throughout. During December, 2010 about 478 beggars were removed from Railway premises. 274 school boys (above 12 years of age) were detected travelling in ladies compartment who were removed from ladies compartment.

WR urges all rail users to buy proper railway ticket and travel with dignity.

बुधलाकोटी उ.रे. और के.बी.एल. मित्तल
आरडीएसओ के लिए नामांकित


नयी दिल्ली : श्री बुधलाकोटी को महाप्रबंधक, उत्तर रेलवे और श्री के.बी.एल.मित्तल को डीजी/आरडीएसओ के लिए नामांकित करके एक प्रस्ताव एसीसी / डीओपीटी को पिछले हफ्ते भेजा गया है। श्री बुधलाकोटी वर्त्तमान में दक्षिण पूर्व मध्य रेलवे, बिलासपुर में सीओएम और श्री मित्तल सेक्रेटरी / रेलवे बोर्ड हैं। ज्ञातव्य है कि इससे पहले श्री बुधलाकोटी के आर्डर एडीशनल मेम्बर / ट्रैफिक, रेलवे बोर्ड के पद पर हुए थे मगर उन्होंने वहां ज्वाइन नहीं किया है।

हालाँकि पहले खबर यह भी थी कि उत्तर रेलवे के लिए वर्त्तमान महाप्रबंधक / उत्तर पश्चिम रेलवे, जयपुर श्री विनय मित्तल भी कोशिश में हैं क्योंकि उन्हें वहां का माहौल कुछ जम नहीं रहा है और इसीलिए वे उत्तर रेलवे में जाना चाहते हैं जिससे उन्हें एक तरफ जयपुर कि घटिया राजनीति से छुटकारा मिलेगा और दूसरी तरफ दिल्ली में रहकर आगे बिना किसी अड़चन के मेम्बर बनना आसान होगा, परन्तु ऐसा लगाता है कि इसमें उन्हें सफलता नहीं मिल पाई।

इसी तरह बताते हैं कि श्री के.बी.एल.मित्तल भी उत्तर रेलवे में ही महाप्रबंधक बनने की जुगाड़ में थे मगर उनकी भी दाल फिलहाल नहीं गल पाई है और उन्हें आरडीएसओ में डीजी के पद पर प्रस्तावित किया गया है। फिर भी सूत्रों का कहना है कि रेलमंत्री ममता बनर्जी का कोई भरोसा नहीं है कि अंत-पन्त वे क्या फेर-बदल कर देंगी।

Nod for Electrification

NEW DELHI : The government cleared electrification of two sections of rail lines at a cost of Rs. 518.43 crore. The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure approved the electrification of the Shoranur-Mangalore-Penambur section of the Southern Railway at a cost of Rs. 302.50 crore. The 328-km stretch of the Chennai-Mangalore corridor mainly runs through Kerala, and a part of it comes in Karnataka.

It also approved the Rohtak-Bhatinda-Lehra Muhabat section of the Northern Railway at a cost of Rs.215.93 crore. The projects are expected to be completed by 2014-15. The Committee also approved the upgrade of a part of the Hyderabad-Bangalore section of NH-7 in Karnataka at an estimated cost of Rs. 679.36 crore. The project is to be executed in 30 months.

Open Letter to Railway Board &
Hon'ble Minister for Railways


Tripathi Ji,

I read your 'Railway Samachar' regularly. Great job in publishing thought provoking articles. Role of media is critical in making our public sector officials accountable and motivate them to be honest. Hope you can publish this letter in your newspaper.

This is in reference to accidents that we have witnessed on Jan 2, 2010 in UP region. As citizens we are entitled to know the root cause of the train accidents. Fog conditions exist in every part of the globe, leading rail companies in the world have best technology and able to prevent accidents due to fog. Why is Indian railways behind?

WHY INDIAN RAILWAYS IS TAKING SAFETY SUBJECT LIGHTLY? ( This is the fourth or fifth accident during Mamta Banerjee's tenure as Minister Railways) Someone in Indian Railways needs to be held accountable for not implementing TPWS and AWS Systems. Simply suspending the Loco Driver will not be an ideal solution. This accident was preventable if Indian Railways had implemented TPWS and AWS System ( Train Protection Warning Systems and Automatic Warning System) in the trains. TPWS is a great technology and has been in Europe, America and other parts of Asia.

Highlights

1. R&D : Indian Railways has invested crores of ruppees in RDSO organization with limited return on investment. We do agree that indigenous build products are important from the perspective of self reliance and encouraging innovation. As a tax payer and proud Indian citizen we are entitled to know how does RDSO come about making business case for new product development. What mechanisms are there to monitor the project. We very much doubt that Indian Railways follows sound project management processes or track vendor's progress.

2. Training : Indian Railways should expose mid level managers to best practices of global railway organizations for example Labour Management Practices, Project Management Practices, Effective Leadership techniques, Communication and Negotiation with vendors.

3. Safety and Modernization : Hon'ble minister should divert her energy from running populist political agenda for example cheap food, reducing the price of the rail fare etc.. The time has come to modernize the aging infrastructure - rail signaling systems, Solid State Interlocking Application, ERTMS, ETCS, GSM-R and track management and engineering. Seriously look at CENELC, SIL4, GSM-4 standards for improving signaling Systems and infrastructure.

4. Salary and Benefits : Indian Railways Officials are losing experienced signaling engineers and managers to private sector. Improving the compensation structure could encourage and motivate young engineers to continue with Indian Railways. Hon'ble Minister and Members of Railway Board should look at this subject seriously.

5. Security and Surveillance : Indian Railway Protection Force lacks modern technology in growing security threats we face. We need to seriously upgrade security apparatus, equip security personnel with modern weapons, grow the bomb squad force, implement modern surveillance devices and equipments.

According to RTI Act, we are entitiled to know what steps and investments are being made by Indian Railways to make rail travel safe. Fog conditions exist all over the world. In UK fog is common, train services still run but slowly and Network Rail , UK has necessary technology which is TPS and AWS to prevent train collisions.

Hon'ble Minister, we request you to dedicate next rail budget on rail safety, modernizing infrastructure and security. We elected you to transform Indian Railways and we certainly deserve the best.

Jai Hind!

Regards,
Dr Tapan Kumar Roy (Phd)

Residents of Tajnagar village
built a railway station on their own

GURGAON : For 25 years, residents of Tajnagar village near Gurgaon lobbied for a railway station in their village. When their demand was not met, the villagers decided to take matters in their own hands — they pooled in Rs 21 lakh and built a railway station on their own. The result of their efforts — perhaps the first railway station in the country on which the Railways didn’t have to spend a single penny — started operations on Tuesday 6th January 2010.

"We have hired a vehicle to spread the message that the station is getting functional. It’s no less than a festival for us and we are organizing a puja at the station. All passengers will get prasad," said an elated villager, adding that the station will benefit people from other villagers as well.

It all started about two years back, when the panchayat passed a resolution saying that since the Railways was not able to build a station for them, they would do it themselves. And with their own money. Soon, an 11-member ‘gram seva samiti’ was constituted and it started collecting money from villagers.

"Most of the 3,000-plus people living in the village are agriculturists. But such was the burning desire to have a station in the village, everybody contributed according to their capacity. Ranging from Rs 3,000 to Rs 75,000 they donated money for the station and we started construction in January, 2008," said Ranjeet Singh, former village sarpanch.

“There are a large number of people in the village who need to go to Gurgaon, Delhi and Rewari. There are students who go to colleges. Till now we had to either go to Hailimandi or Patli to catch a train. Both stations are 6km away from Tajnagar. We thought that when the railway line passes through the village, we should have a station here. We have been raising the demand since 1982, but the Railways told us that they do not have funds. So, finally we decided to craft our own destiny," said Hukum Chand, a member of the committee.

The villagers then asked the Railways if it would agree to stop a few trains at the station if they constructed a station with their own resources. To their surprise, the Railways agreed to make seven passenger trains (in both directions) halt at the station if it was built according to its specifications.

"The Railways decided to make it a halt station because a number of people would benefit from it. Financially too, the idea looked viable," said Anant Swaroop, Northern Railways spokesperson. He added that a station master and ticket collector had been appointed.

The station, which took one year for completion, has two platforms. It has a kachcha platform, water and electricity, and a ticket counter. It would be inaugurated by Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjeet Singh. Villagers said as a skeleton station was ready now, they need the Railways’ help to make a concrete platform, a waiting room and an overhead shed.

No one even bothered to
acknowledge the emails


Dear Mr Tripathi,

I heard that you run a popular Railway Samachar Website. Probably you could post this information on your website. I sent several emails to Parliament committee for Indian Railways, Hon'ble Minister for Railways, Minister of State for Railways and Chairman of Railway Board. Till date no one has replied to the email or even bothered to acknowledge the emails.

This is in reference to two accidents that we have witnessed recently near Mathura and near Jaipur. As citizens we are entitled to know the root cause of the train accidents from the Railway Board and Hon'sble Minister of Railways. We understand that Indian Railway has made significant investments in technologies and then why these safe guard mechanisms are not working.

1. Can people in the Indian Railways update us how many trains are equipped with train protection systems and warning systems

2. How much money is spent per train in equipping the train with train protection systems and warning systems

3. Which vendor or contractor did the work for implementing train protection systems

4. What steps Indian Railways has taken to prevent such accidents

5. We have read that Konkan Railways has developed Anti Collision Device indigenously. What are the current issues in the current system. If the current systems are not working, we should scrap them and buy from reputed international technology vendor and improve the safety

6. How does Indian Railways ensure that signalling department has deployed designed and tested the signaling systems, applications and infrastructure as per the latest European standards CENELEC standards and SIL4 requirements. What proof the signalling dept is gathering from vendors to ensure that their design and tests go through thorough due diligence

7. Who is accountable for such accidents

8. What monitoring systems are in place for better track engineering

9. What proactive steps RDSO is taking to prevent such accidents

I strongly feel that media combined with public pressure can make government accountable and improve safety. I hope you will post this email on your popular "Railway Samachar" blog site.
Thank you for your great work!

Regards

Dr Tapan Kumar Roy ( Phd)

Dragon builds rail web around India

China is busy developing extensive multimodal connectivity all along the borders and inside the neighbouring countries for facilitating trade flows, energy supplies and movement of arms and armada, says Raghu Dayal

MAOIST China believed power flowed from the barrel of the gun; today it believes power comes from farms and factories sustained by assured supply lines of energy, minerals and materials, supported, in turn, by adequate logistics and connectivity. It seems to demonstrate that industrial power is at the heart of economic power, and economic power at the heart of strategic power.

China has imparted to railways a unique dimension of diplomacy and statecraft. Since 1985, China has channelled large investments into the expansion and revitalisation of its railways to also serve as the new Euro-Asian continental bridge akin to the fabled silk road as much as a lifeline of its economic and military might. Asia to Africa to Latin America.

All around India, China shares land borders with five Saarc countries, looks over the Chicken's Neck at a sixth, and has a long border with Myanmar. From Kunming in its Yunnan province, a network of road, rail and river links fork out to Sittwe in western Myanmar and Thilawa near Yangon on the Bay of Bengal. China would have completed extensive rail links to Myanmar after it builds 232-km Lashio-Muse/Ruili rail line in that country. A Myanmar-Bangladesh rail link will help connect Kunming to Chittagong as well. China is contemplating, among various rail-related projects in Bangladesh, construction of the second Padma bridge and a 130-km rail line from Chittagong to Gundum on Myanmar-Bangladesh border.

China's formidable presence in terms of rail and road projects in India's north is uniquely typified by world's highest 1,142-km Golmud-Lhasa rail line. There seems no stopping it to extend it first to Nyalam on the China-Nepal border, and finally to Kathmandu. A feasibility study is already completed for a new 252-km line from Lhasa to Xigaze. A further 400-km rail link from Xigaze to Nyalam is listed in its rail network programme. Nyalam to Kathmandu will then involve just about 120 km of additional link to be built. The prospect of going by train from Rameshwaram to Beijing via Kathmandu and Lhasa does not appear all that far-fetched any more!

Likewise, on India's eastern flank, Chinese rail and road connectivity speedily knits the south-east Asian land mass. The 5,380-km Singapore-Kunming rail line project pursued by Asean covers the route from Kunming through Laos to Cambodian port of Sihanoukville on the Gulf of Thailand that is being actively supported by China. It is already connected by rail to Vietnam through the 195-km dual-gauge (1,435 mm/1,000 mm) line between Hanoi and Dong Dang. China's comprehensive renovation of the Kunming-Hekou link and construction of 141-km Yuxi-Mengzi line support an early connection of the pan-Asian rail network.

It is busy not only speeding up construction of its own network between Kunming and Singapore but also helping close the gaps across the Asean railways, viz, between Thailand and Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, Laos and China, etc. With the remaining gaps in the network, when bridged, traffic originating in Singapore or Indonesia would be able to join the main Chinese south-north trunk line that runs from Shenzhen to Erenhot on the border with Mongolia, or its eastwest trunk line that runs from the port of Lianyungang on the coast of China to Druzba on the border with Kazakhstan.

Similar developments on India's western flank have for long been ominous. China-built Gwadar port in Balochistan on Pakistan's southwest coast close to the Straits of Hormuz will be the entry point for energy supplies to China, bypassing the Malacca Straits. Gwadar is proposed to be linked through Khunjerab Pass in the Karakoram to Kashgar (Kashi) which is connected to Xigaze, due to be rail-linked to Lhasa. There are reports of Gwadar being linked by an 800-km standard-gauge (1,435 mm) rail line in Pakistan via Dalbandin along Koh-I-Taftan (on Iranian border)-Spezand-Quetta-Chaman (on Afghan border) and extended to Kashi in China. When completed, it will isolate the broad gauge (1,676 mm) rail network in India while providing a through 1,435-mm network all across China.

CHINA'S frenetic development of infrastructure in central Asian republics (CARs) signifies its long-term strategic and economic stakes in the region. Constituting a virtual bridge between China and Europe, Kazakhstan is keen on developing both a trans-Asian rail route via Iran as well as the Euro-Asian rail route, both enabling Beijing to provide connectivity between Asia-Pacific and Europe. The former comprises a 10,500-km through rail link along Beijing-Almaty-Tashkent-

Ashkabad-Tehran-Istanbul, and the latter between Hong Kong-Beijing-Almaty-Saratov-Kiev-Warsaw-Berlin-Brussels-London (13,000 km). The different rail gauges in China (1,435 mm) and CARs (1,520 mm) compel swapping of wagons and coach bodies at a trans-shipment yard China has built at Alataw. The Maersk railway subsidiary, European Rail Shuttle, in conjunction with Trans Siberian Express Service and Tie Yang Transportation in China, offers regular block train services from China to the Czech Republic via Mongolia, Russia and Poland.
Another instance of China's engagement in building rail lines in resource-rich CARs is its links to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Following the rail track between Tedzen (Turkmenistan) and Mashhad (Iran) at Sarakhs, a through rail link would be available from China through CARs to Europe via Turkey. Yet another transit route being considered is through Afghanistan and Pakistan along Ashkabad-Torghundi-Herat-Kandahar-Chaman-Quetta.

It is difficult not to infer that these mighty overtures from India's northerly neighbour also aim at strategic encirclement and containment of India, creating a ring of anti-Indian influences. Asserting its ascent through `hard power', for example, China has indulged in ongoing Yunnanisation of northern Myanmar. Be it the road and rail links along and inside Pakistan, Myanmar or Vietnam, again, China is busy developing extensive multimodal connectivity all along the borders and inside the neighbouring countries for facilitating trade flows, energy supplies as well as large-scale movement of arms and armada, subserving its strategic global ambitions. This is real politik.

Against this, a complacent, smug and `argumentative' India remains wrapped in its own bliss of ignorance and masterly inactivity, unable to take forward with good grace even fractional connectivity projects in Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan. There is tide in the affairs of nations as well as men and India is in danger of having missed it. Small openings of opportunity seized in time can help mend fences and build confidence in our smaller neighbours.

50 new projects by IR at a cost of 60,000 cr.

137 cr for doubling of tracks between Krishnagar and Bethuadahari

Dankuni Locomotive will produce 100 Diesel and Electric loco

Laying a Liluah-Dankuni third line,

Deploying personnel at some 450 unmanned level crossings,

Installation of public address system in suburban trains which feed Calcutta from Eastern (for 141 trains) and South Eastern Railway networks (for 50 trains)

A rake rehabilitation yard at Noapara.

Siliguri will get Rs 20 crore for a shed to house some 100 locomotives.

Vigilance Control Device to be installed for monitor LP's activities.

Promise of home on blaze plot

- MAMATA PLEDGES 650 HOUSES ON
WHAT SHE CLAIMS IS RAILWAY LAND

Another Propeganda of Mamta Banerjee On
Cost of Verios Zonal Women Welfare Associations

Kolkata : Number 4 Basanti Colony, just another slum till yesterday, emerged as a political playground today with Mamata Banerjee scoring a home run by announcing that the women welfare associations of the railways would build 650 houses for the victims of the Ultadanga slum blaze.

“The rebuilt homes will be pucca structures and of the same dimensions as the ones that have been devoured by the blaze,” the Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister said on Wednesday evening. Around 2,500 residents of Number 4 Basanti Colony, off Bidhan Nagar Road station, saw their home and hearth being reduced to rubble within a few hours on Tuesday.

Mamata’s announcement capped efforts launched by all political parties to derive mileage from the fire ahead of the civic polls. After reaching the blaze site, she headed first for the relief camp run by partyman Sujit Bose and then visited the one opened by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation. At the Trinamul camp, she said she had brought relief materials such as tarpaulin sheets and blankets.

As the 1,000-odd homeless dwellers erupted with joy, Mamata silenced them: “This is nothing. Listen carefully. I have spoken in Delhi about rebuilding the homes that were lost in the fire. Around 450 homes were gutted, but we will build 650 homes on behalf of the various women welfare associations of the railways.”

At both camps, she hinted at the possibility of a sabotage behind Tuesday’s tragedy, saying: “This is railway land. Those who have been waiting like rakshas to grab it should realise that little will come of mischief like arson. The plot was acquired by the railways.”

Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya as well as state government sources, however, rubbished Mamata’s claim that the plot was a railway property, saying the title deed was still with the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA).

The mayor said the plot — its size varies from two to five acres, according to the versions of the officials in Calcutta and Delhi — originally belonged to the Calcutta Improvement Trust. “The ownership was transferred to the CMDA after the CIT was merged with it in the 1980s.”

Urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya — the CMDA functions under his department — refused comment on the plot’s ownership or Mamata’s announcement to get the ravaged homes rebuilt. “We are yet to receive any proposal from the railway ministry,” said Bhattacharya.

Officials in the state government as well as the civic body refuted Mamata’s claim that the railway ministry had acquired the plot. The ministry, while it was being steered by the late A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury in 1982-84, wanted the plot to set up a railway terminal.

“The ministry had made a token deposit of around Rs 50 lakh with the CIT but apparently lost interest in the project thereafter. There was no further word or payment from Delhi and the plot’s title deed still rests with the CMDA,” said an official.

Representatives of the railway ministry told Metro that Khan Chowdhury’s project could not take off as the plot was too small for a railway terminal. According to mayoral council member (roads) Tuhin Bera, the railways can no longer lay claim to the plot as the terminal it had proposed to build has come up in Chitpur.

Caught between claims and counter-claims, the likes of Bani Saha living under a makeshift shamiana in the Trinamul relief camp are left wondering: “Aar koto din ei bhabey thakbo (How long will be have to be like this)?”

At the blaze site, a forensic team from police collected samples on Wednesday. “The cause of the fire has not yet been ascertained,” said an officer of the detective department.

Suggestions for indian Railways

This is in context to Indian Railways “INNOVATION PROMOTION GROUP”.The Suggestions are as follows; Improvement in amenities such as on trains and on Railway Stations,On platforms availability of Drinking water,toilets and availability of quantitative and qualitative food at economical rates should be available. The Stalls should be in the hands Railway Department itself. And on trains Berths should be of good quality, rodents’ free coaches and drinking water must be available in all AC Coaches and in Non AC coaches too. The foam available is also not comfortable and generally passengers land up with trouble with neck-ache or back-ache. And regarding bed roll available, it has been noticed that it is given to those who travel for short travel they are also being provided with Bed sheets and pillow in AC Coaches and they are refused by other passengers when it is given to them. And in the ac coaches the temperature is not maintained as it is written. It has been experienced that during summer season passengers feel hot in the coach and same during winter also temperature is kept minimum. This does not solve the purpose of AC coaches. AC means AIR CONDITIONING so that during temperature should be summer it should be comfortable and while winter high temperature should be maintained.

Regarding the watering the Coach at stations is also an important feature. Generally many times trains are running without water, due less time of halt at intermediate station or due to manpower are not available. But still water pipes in trains and at stations leak due to which much of the water is wasted. Kindly recruit more staff so that long distance trains can have sufficient water during there run. Pest control is also required because trains are running with mice, cockroaches,lizards ,etc.The Annual Maintenance Contract is not the long term Solution. Railways should recruit staff to solve such problems. “Railways should be passenger friendly and not Rodents friendly Railway”

Safety And Security has always been important part of Railways. Since the Indian Railways preamble always says that “Railways is committed to provide Safe and Dependable services”. Media has always criticized Railways for not taking corrective foot steps to stop Accidents. Since last 5-6years we have seen drop in the Rail Accidents but The Causalities have rised.The Railways Have Three forces Such as RPF,RPSF and GRP,but the problem still arises because no-one is ready to take responsibility and they start the blame game and point to each other. Even some times it has been see that many accident victims lose their life due to disputes between these forces and they say this is not our Jurisdiction. So the “MORE FORCES MORE CONFUSION. ONE FORCE ONE SOLUTION” And Discipline.

IF train services are reduced, the rail staff will get sufficient time to inspect tracks. Many times it has been noticed the Maintenance staff is run over by trains again the reason stands continuous passing of trains.(first Gang men used to get two hours to inspect the tracks after that the time is reduced to 15 minutes and worst are suburban section train is behind each other). Many times trains are introduced with demands which put enormous pressure on tracks and trains are running without any safety checks. The latest accident on 21st October 2009 between Mewar Express and Goa Express at Bajna Bridge near Mathura @ 5.40 am is an example that there is no maintenance of Railways assets such as Rolling stock, tracks,OHE,signals.etc. Even A local EMU derailment At Kurla in Central Railway shows that with the procurement of low quality material had claimed one life. The lack of funds and many times without proper checks materials are procured are Jeopardizing the lives of People. Being the safety of the people I would like to suggest that kindly go for good Quality products. And also Don’t reduce staff because this is hampering Country’s growth and Kindly Respect The life of the People.

Modernization of the Stations can be done by providing Escalators and Lifts. And Also Railway staff should be given training on long Haul Operations and proper Management so that they can manage Indian Railways Efficiently.

Increase of earning could be done by ways such as leasing of commercial properties, building budget hotels at major stations. Introduction of freight cars, new coaches with high capacity, providing Advertisements on trains.

Railways in last few years have introduced new technologies such as LHB Coaches for Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains and which now is being extended to normal trains too.IGBT EMU trains for Mumbai Suburban section for Western and Central Railways.3phase AC locos with Regenerative braking features are also providing railways with best features in them. These above introduced technology is boon for INDIAN RAILWAYS. IR should go ahead and try to bring new technologies which is favorable with Environment and technology must suit Indian Temperature.

As a very good step taken by Indian Railways, for getting ideas through its citizens. I think IR could achieve this only when they Have Efficient Officers’ and Staff and Discipline is also needed. Once these two points are properly used by IR. I am sure that it will be not only India but in the world worlds’ best Railways.

Manmeet Singh
m_manmeet.singh@rediffmail.com