Productivity of Railways - Inputs on Root Causes

Dear Friends:

Below is a summary of key issues with Productivity of Railways as highlighted by you.

Please review them and if you see something missing, please post it as a comment. Otherwise, please identify, Root Causes for these issues.

Once we know the Root Causes, we will identify Solutions that need to be implemented by the Railway Ministry via a separate post.

I look forward to your inputs!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta

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Productivity of Railways – Issues
1. Too many people involved in cleaning the toilet waste
2. Bad governance/management of facility
3. Non availability of tickets when one wants to travel
4. Too much time wasted in buying tickets
5. Lack-lustre security and security personnel
6. A lot of areas still have single tracks
7. Old AC coaches used in Shatabdi Express’ which are not very energy efficient
8. Limited line capacity for goods train
9. Trains usually do not run on time schedules
10. Expectation of bribes
11. The turn-around time of passenger as well as goods trains is much lower resulting in far lower utilization of its assets
12. The manual cleaning, checking and regular maintenance and loading/unloading operations take longer time
13. FDI not allowed in this sector
14. Private players not allowed
15. Inefficient use of the quota allotted
16. Crowd management on railway stations and inside the trains is bad
17. Cleanliness staff is inefficient
18. The engines of the trains are inefficient and consume a lot of fuel
19. Inefficient use of the railway land
20. The selection of new train routes is illogical more

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Ganesh Guddemane (Mechanical Engineer, Pharma machinery,)

Tatkaal Wait listed tickets should get confirmation by default on next day. Next day ticket not to be sold unless previous day waitlist is cleared. more

Dec 16

Sahadev Kunapuli

Critical routes have single track - Wadi to Pune, Guntakal - Bangalore . Four south Indian states have to share one track for going coming ! This is due to the pressure of the private bus lobby which run hundreds of buses . In 35 years, train timing from Hyderabad to Mumbai has not come down by even one minute. In 1980 bus used take 5 hours more than train. Today volvo bus takes 5 hours less than train ! It is shame that train speed > 40 kmph is express and greater than 66 kmph is superfast . Show one country where the railways are run like this . There are more than 200 gardeners in Intergal Coach Factory , Chennai. Are u producing roses or railway bogies ? I have seen a documentary where 400 people produce high quality bogies which 15000 employees of ICF cannot do. Another documentary , a fully laded goods wagon , hot axle is removed replaced by just three people in under 10 minutes . High class equipment , high class technology is the answer. Unless the various departments like traffic , mechanical are abolished there is no future for IR. After double track electrification, what more can IR do ? You have to improve signalling, track, bogie design such that a journey of 1000 kms is completed in 10 hours. Reduction of journey time through induction of world class technology is the only solution . Less travel time -> less food -> less visit to toilets, less complaints about vendors, more income to IR . All the best Suresh Prabhu Ji, you are the last hope of IR. more

Dec 13

Somanath Sahu

Rajendra Pratap Gupta 20 points highlighted in connection with the key issue of Railway are required to be attained in proper & judicious way by experienced Rly persons involved in each point of working with other like minded & experienced people from other sector to give better service to all sector of people & make Indian Railway the best service provider in the world. more

Dec 13

Rajeev Kumar

train improvement the train timely passenger attract. more

Dec 13

BHOOMA KUMARI (Communication Skills Expert)

You may please add one important factor--That is people working, coming into contact with Railways think that since it is a Government organization, it is not essential that it has to generate profits. Government is responsible for running the trains at a cheaper rate, providing for all employees however much they are incapable. Since profit making is not the intent competitiveness is safely ripped off and hence this state of affairs. So unless we change the attitude of all these people including workers, travelers, officers, policy makers, political parties and general public, nothing is going to change. Review system should be in vogue. Concrete expectations and targets should be penned so that we can expect them to bring results. more

Dec 13

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