Make Railways Better

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Founder: Ministry Of Railways

Founded by Ministry of Railways and with over 150,000 citizens, this circle enables every Indian to give inputs, share experiences and directly participate in Making Indian Railways Better. Your inputs in various areas ranging from improvement in station amenities to safety and from cleaner trains to timeliness are all reviewed and incorporated as feasible. With 60% of Rail Budget 2015 and 2016 derived from this circle, Indian Railways is 100% committed to becoming more Citizen Oriented by the day.

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Who can save the railways????
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Today I attended 12246 YPR-HWH DURONTO express to receive my daughter at the HOWRAH station. Look what I encountered :- 1. The train reached at 18:00( RT 16:45) hrs at platform 22. But the re...

By SATINATH BHATTACHARYYA

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RAILWAYS SETS THE TONE TO CREATE WEALTH FROM WASTE :
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Chennai Division of Southern Railways realized that the Garbage generated from the 2 main stations Chennai Central & Egmore was to the tune of 14.5 Tonnes. 8.5 Tonnes of it is Bio degradable...

By Jayakumar Daniel

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Tea facilities in Premium Trains
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The passengers in premium trains have the option to choose food on board. That is all right. However as Passenger cannot carry tea or other drinks, I request Railway to have the option of tea durin...

By SUBHASH PARAKH

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Provide for seat selection online
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The railway booking website doesn't allow picking one's seat/berth and one gets to know of the seat number or coach number only after payment is made and transaction is successful. After one finds ...

By K Jayarama Shenoy

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Postponement/Preponement Reules
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Found this information useful so sharing with all. Indian Railways actually allows you to postpone or prepone your journey. No matter whether you have booked tickets using the IRCTC webs...

By Sarita Ravichandran

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RIGHT WAYS TO IMPROVE THE OPERATION RATIO AND GIVE RELIEF FOR THE PASSENGERS :
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Currently, the national transporter has set a record-high operating ratio of 117.31% – which means it spent Rs 117.31 to generate every Rs 100. It is not good going for the Railways with a he...

By Jayakumar Daniel

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QUEER BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIONS OF TRANS GENDERS ON TRAINS :
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I consider this will be a major Relief for the Rail passengers while traveling . Past 2 /3 years I have seen complaints from members in this circle. This is more common in commuter trains , where t...

By Jayakumar Daniel

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advance bookin time.
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indian railways should reduce advance booking to half of the present.say keep it 2 months. it will ease the problem of tatkal booking and definitely, % tatkal booking will lower down.and corruption...

By Satyapal Singh

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Ticketing Advance & Tatkal reservation
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Advance reservation Waitlisted tickets should get confirmed before tatkal booking starts so that passengers' simultaneous tatkal reservation could be avoided. I observed advance reservation waitlis...

By RS KRISHNAN

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Ticketing & reservation
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Ticketing & reservation Present Railway ticketing & reservation system needs to be revamped for the benefit of genuine Bonafide passengers seeking reservation of seats & berths in...

By Vishnu Kumar Pachisia

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