Can we privatise the Railways

@ deepak: watever u have said is all correct but who ensures that the private player which will enter into market will be connecting rural with urbans?? their travelling will be much safer??see nowhere govt can force them fr any of the two u mentioned...also as they are profit making they will never look fr more investment and less outcome/( rural-urban). jus see the private players in other sector SEZ,petroleum... etc... also the conditions of railways, we are also equally responsble fr it...i mean we the people take it fr granted becauz the fares are nt too high, there are no fine or say they are charged on spitting or breaking window panes...i mean jus see there is any kindoff danga or riots ...people burn public property like anytning... its more of free rider problem that needs to be solved....
take care
anu
 
Well according to me privatisation can solve the problems especially in mumbai coz:
1) Accountability to the people as a private company is indulging in a mode of public transportation and fast decision and action,,,no 'chalta hai' type attitude
2) Can use all the latest technologies as per the feasibility in infrastructure building, tracks,etc.. as there will not be any government involvement
3) More importantly security measures can also be tightened up
4) Ofcourse ther might be some price hike but it will provide with better amenities to travel and more importantly revised train schedule like shuttle services so less crowd in the trains.
 
Hey Anu,,
I agree wid u tht taali ek haath se nahi bajti but its nt only us who r responsilble alone ,, the government babus has to take the major part of the blame as their attitude is not in helping the people, they take their own sweet time in replying to the problems to the people,, even the tc's thgemselves cross the railway tracks,,,
so the only solutiion can be complete privatisation or public- private partnership
 
yeah i agree wid u...!! i think tht v shud privatise d railways too...which will help d commuters a lot....atleast dey will get decent railways n railway facilites wuld be good..i think v shud privatise it too
 
i think railways shud be privatised if v want better service. but it shud be owned by such a company which shud be able to manage it.
 
In toto privatisation - i'm against it. but some sectors such as freight corridor, private participation is ok.
 
and anyways our railway minister is coming up wwith brilliant ideas to further revamp the Railways ..like permitting advertisings on trains, pltforms and even tea cups and other things
 
Privatization is not t solution...well even our goverment employess can make a diffrecnce the only thing is that they should be committed to job...privatization may end up resultin into many indirect problems....they might b suceessful even in reducing fares n all but fianlly our goverment will b affected by such a huge loss which will indirectly affect us in sum or the other way
 
Well friends even I am against the idea of privatising our Indian railways....firstly because I feel there is no need of privatising it as far as profits r concerned becoz v all knw it is performing really well ...as said by few of my friends earlier and secondly if v want our railways to be privatised only b'coz v think by privatising we wud receive gud customer support then let me tell u v r absolutely wrong...'customer services' are worst not only in Railways but in any govt run organistions say for example BSNL....The only way I feel they can improve their customer service is by recruiting young peoples instead of their current aged employees coz they really lack customer etiquette and the kind of enthusiasm which is required....The management must be active & shud monitor & improve their perfomances as it happens in any MNC....Moreover If we privatise our Railways then as said by one of our friend above that we will lose the greater share of profit what we are earning currently...and above all privatising our Indian Railways is not an easy job as Airlines....we all know that our Indian railways is one of the largest rail networks in the world which manages 1.6million emloyees....It has an established processes n systems...disturbing them will do no good....

So I believe we shud rather b patient n watch the further moves of our rail minister than to opt for privatisation coz am sure thrz lot more to come from him...And we shud alwaz remember that "Rome was not built in a day" :)
 
Railways need to be Privatized..Atleast a passenger can commute without taking risk of line from dadar to borivali, virar in the evening.. and at the standards to the railways will also be good by then..there will not b Long Queue for tickets,There would not b problem of Old people and young ones to commute to some long distance.Even girls will b ssafe till some extent.If proper checks b implemented, there would less risk of Bomb explosion..People can commute freely even @ Midnights.. SO atleast privatisation will have much more Positive sides then few negative sides.
 
hemant.k008 said:
Railways need to be Privatized..Atleast a passenger can commute without taking risk of line from dadar to borivali, virar in the evening.. and at the standards to the railways will also be good by then..there will not b Long Queue for tickets,There would not b problem of Old people and young ones to commute to some long distance.Even girls will b ssafe till some extent.If proper checks b implemented, there would less risk of Bomb explosion..People can commute freely even @ Midnights.. SO atleast privatisation will have much more Positive sides then few negative sides.
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Hemant somehow I disagree with you...lol u mean to say that if the IR is privatised there wiil be less people traveling by train??...well that is wat ur statement "Atleast a passenger can commute without taking risk of line from dadar to borivali, virar in the evening" means.....And if u talk abt the standards then let me tell u no matter how hard the governing body may be a government or private entity manage, they cant do anythg unless we peoples restrain ourselves from creating a mess...its v peoples who dump wastage whereeva v lyk instead of having dust bins...its v ppl who split here n there though v find split bins evrywhre in the station...actually v tak evrythg which is not ours for granted & the most disgusting thg is that even highly educated people do that ...its not that they(govt) hav not taken any measures to stop these thgs....they hav designed rules to stop these thgs(rememba the fines)... but v alwayz luv to break rules!!

And according to me the prblm of long queues for tickets is quite normal for such a huge entity....And I also believe the same prblm will be faced by private players too if managed by them...U see the govt is doing all that can be done to reduce the queues at the booking point....thrz an option of online booking wherein ur ticket is delivered to u by post...they r inceasing the booking points & still wrking on that...Aftrall it transports millions of peoples & frieghts daily thus making it one of the busiest rail network in the world.....

And Hemant its same wid ur other points too....these r the common problems for a dept which manages such an enormous peoples or customers or wateva u say....
 
its a very good thought but privatising railways would mean increse in fares and then another part would be increse in the number of competitors and the existing railway condition is just OK i fear wht will it be after privatisation. :tea:
 
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