Can we privatise the Railways

Hi Depak,
Well i feel privatisation of railways would be a great help to the country. Specially in the city like mumbai, where there are so many deaths or rather accidents happening while commuting the trains. Privatisation would be a great help in increasing the comfort level and of course would reduce fare rates just like wht has happened after the privatisation of Airlines.
 
Hi Depak,
Well i feel privatisation of railways would be a great help to the country. Specially in the city like mumbai, where there are so many deaths or rather accidents happening while commuting the trains. Privatisation would be a great help in increasing the comfort level and of course would reduce fare rates just like wht has happened after the privatisation of Airlines.
 
i think the metro railways in specific cities should be privatised........
but the other services are worth appreciation...... so the local trains service can be privatised to provide better facilities to people........
 
yaa sure i thnk it can be done though.. it wud mean askin 4 organised n yet reasonable fares! it wud also help Im prove da current scenario of Indian railways as competition wud motivate better quality bt only dark side 2 it wud b da price if der cud b some way 2 not increase rates too much thn it wud b a success!
 
yaa sure i thnk it can be done though.. it wud mean askin 4 organised n yet reasonable fares! it wud also help Improve da current scenario of Indian railways as competition wud motivate better quality bt only dark side 2 it wud b da price if der cud b some way 2 not increase rates too much thn it wud b a success!
 
yes evry thing vcan be privatised ..we need it...but till the time let lallooo ji manage it and it is giving us enough proud of the fact how common sense and detrmination can change ..what we never is possible..ie railways in proift
 
If you seen UK they have different companies operating on same railroads. They succeeded in pravitization but the prices are a bit high compared to other countries. But the comfort and safety is the best in their trains....
 
as a consumer, privatisation of railway will not be a better option because it is a monopoly market, so the private players will set too high price while providing facilties too, but it will be on their own will. as this sector is a monopoly sector so it should not be prvatized at all.
 
Even though it's privatized, the existing tracks aren't sufficient.. Lots of money needs to be poured in for tracks, bridges and connectivity. I don't think private players (even the big ones like reliance) will be interested in getting into railways...
 
well, we have seen the impact of the Indian aviation industry any way now, even after privatization, all the companies are facing losses, which in also burnt by t he government & the oil companies.... so do u think privatizing the railways would also be beneficial... i mean we can see the profits in the railways balance sheet, & also where the money is used... plus as of the new news , lalu plans to start a bullet train frm Ahmedabad to Pune vai mumbai & the train would just take 3 hours to reach Mumbai, & the research work has all ready began... so y do we need privatization if the govt is doing its work...
 
akashkhetpal_86 said:
well, we have seen the impact of the Indian aviation industry any way now, even after privatization, all the companies are facing losses, which in also burnt by t he government & the oil companies.... so do u think privatizing the railways would also be beneficial... i mean we can see the profits in the railways balance sheet, & also where the money is used... plus as of the new news , lalu plans to start a bullet train frm Ahmedabad to Pune vai mumbai & the train would just take 3 hours to reach Mumbai, & the research work has all ready began... so y do we need privatization if the govt is doing its work...
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Drawing a conclusion based one industry will not applicable for other industry.Aviation industry operates on a shoe string budget cos most of the operating costs comes from ATF for which all airline companies are paying heavy taxes.Moreover,the airlines are also leased so they have dues for that even.Even more they have pay the cost for using a particular airport.This is not the case of Railways.Engines are made by our country and the taxes for the fuel will not be equal to the ATF.Cost of maintanence of aircraft will not equal to that of trains.I agress that they are starting bullet trains.Why do you need bullet trains when some of the cities in our country are not well-connected with other parts of the country.Even bullet trains will run between major cities where even now we have sufficient no.of trains to connect the two major cities.So our focus should not run bullet trains but to connect even rural areas to major towns.

-Deepak.
 
It is better not to privatize the railway because the current progress of railways under the railway minister is quite evident and there have been quite a good number of changes that have been brought about by the government. However rather than handling everything, the govt can privatize some stations by adding some restaurants, some malls etc.
 
I think looking at the current situation of indian railways where we dont have enough trains, no security, never on time,increasing population(aprrox 40 lac travel daily) privatization would really help in improving the condition of indian railways.
 
I am in favour of privatising the railways.
-This will help in improvement in quality of services,
-there will be competition in price.
-this will create lot of jobs
-will generate lot of revenue for govt
But the privatising of railways should be done in steps and there should be formulation of certain policies for private players int his sector
 
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