Can we privatise the Railways

[deepakraam]

Originally Posted by Hash52

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....

Think abt the population of India and the no.of seats available in the Railways.This will nt even form 20% of the population.Even after running spl trains ,they are nt even able to meet people needs.I agree that railways is growing today.But the question is that is it growing at the same rate at the people's needs are growing.We need to grow more aggressively.


-Deepak.

[nehmehta@yahoo.com]

yeah v shud pivatise d railways as airports have been privatised and der r many changes take place...also d privatisation will sumwot change d infrastructure of stations and of trains too...

[9891782235]

Ya Railways should be privatised, it would be great, good infrastructure and facilities would be available

[Hash52]

Originally Posted by deepakraam

Think abt the population of India and the no.of seats available in the Railways.This will nt even form 20% of the population.Even after running spl trains ,they are nt even able to meet people needs.I agree that railways is growing today.But the question is that is it growing at the same rate at the people's needs are growing.We need to grow more aggressively.


-Deepak.

Ya I agree with you that the growth rate has to be increased....but what do u mean?
Do u think if railways are privatised the growth rate will increase? I really dnt think so...let us b practical..because u c its an already established organisation with its own systems n processes....it took them so many years to do this....And once it is privatised obviously they will try to change the strategy & to build a new strategy n implementng it is no easy job....there will be lot of change in external factors like govt policy, political factors n so on...u know because its a govt entity, they r able to manage this well but once it is privatised it wont be the same n hez(the private player) gonna hav really hard tym...ultimately its the public who will hav to suffer...

[priyanka.b]

yes railways need to be privatised.Lot of care has to be taken,better connectivity should be provided.All these things need lot of infrastructure which can be arranged by private sector only.

[u.shanthi]

I think privatisation should not be allowed when it is public utility

[JEAN]

to privatise railways is not a bad idea,,it will give good facilities and infrastructure for the people .But railways plays a major role in providing huge income for the government .Hence the government may not let railways to privatise

[daisychauhan]

Ya, I think Railways should be privatised, it will give good facilities and infrastructure for us

[aseem85]

i think the railways should be privatised in an organised n phased manner starting with a particular service or region's operations and then gradually moving on to see ts benefits n drawbacks

[deepakraam]

Originally Posted by Hash52

Ya I agree with you that the growth rate has to be increased....but what do u mean?
Do u think if railways are privatised the growth rate will increase? I really dnt think so...let us b practical..because u c its an already established organisation with its own systems n processes....it took them so many years to do this....And once it is privatised obviously they will try to change the strategy & to build a new strategy n implementng it is no easy job....there will be lot of change in external factors like govt policy, political factors n so on...u know because its a govt entity, they r able to manage this well but once it is privatised it wont be the same n hez(the private player) gonna hav really hard tym...ultimately its the public who will hav to suffer...

Hey,
Letz take the case of Airways.Think about wat happend after allowing private players.I agree that there were still some glitches in the airline sector but when you look at the overall growth of the sector,its tremendous after private player participation.On the other side ,lets assume that we have no private players in the sector.I'm sure that we cudn't have achieved the growth we are having today.Not only growth,they are now common man's commutation.We have placed orders for Airbus 380 that was released a couple of months back.Do you think we can achieve this w/o private players in such a short span of time.

Add to it the private players are currently improving the infrastructure of major airports in the country.Even they are eyeing to improve airports in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities.All these are happening in airline sector now.

On these lines I wud say allowing private players in Railways will certainly take the railways to the next level.


-Deepak.