Can we privatise the Railways

[sportsmanrahul]

anyways seeing the plight of the airlines sector i don't think that Praivatisation of railways wold be a good idea.......

[sportsmanrahul]

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

[ahmermbalbale]

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

[vikyoncbr]

good project will defeinetly help other managmt students

[Hash52]

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"

[rohit.nate]

no need to privatise railways . Laloo Yadav is doing good job he shows Indian railway can be give us profit after all corruption and mal practices.

[hemant.k008]

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.

[anushrimodi@hotmail.com]

yes railways should be privatised bcoz they will be better organized and managed

[Hash52]

Originally Posted by hemant.k008

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 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....

[sandhugagandeep]

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.