Tamil Nadu Govt Requests

1. Amma unavagam must be opened in all district bus stands. The bus stands are the key transit points in the state between the district headquarters and other regions. Example: thanjavur bus stand both old and new. The ratio of amma unavagam in chennai is far higher compared to rural areas and other districts. The number of amma unavagam must increase
2. Reforms in education sector:
a) Complete bio metrics of govt schools for staff (compulsory) and students.
b) CCTV cameras in govt schools in cooking, eating areas, classrooms and general areas to see and monitor activities remotely. CCTV will help prevent many issues and remote monitoring
b) High attendance in some govt schools will indicate good work by staff easily and availability of good transport facilities for students. If there is lack of attendance or delays then govt can take steps in various dimensions to improve transport to that area, staff can be provided houses nearby for remote areas
c) The biometrics must not be used initially to target govt staff for minor delays in coming to work but to understand the reasons first and trying to fix them.
d) Biometrics will help remote monitoring of issues and fixing faster. Some times staff in chennai never know the issues faced in remote areas and villages by staff
3. Govt schools in remote areas must be given video conferencing facilities to interact with top level education departments in Chennai to improve various parameters devised by Chennai head office and tn govt. The areas to improve must be devised and worked continuously through video conferencing to improve areas and overall education profile. in fact education minister must sit and try to understand the ground level issues patiently
4. Electric and Hybrid buses must be ordered by TN govt under international tendering for 150 numbers a combination of both AC and NON AC buses. This will help reduce pollution in Chennai and suburbs and other districts which are facing huge pollution problems. The pollution menace can be reduced and the cost of operation of MTC will come down in medium and long term. Since the cost of recharging with electricity is much cheaper. The tendering process must indicate that charging facilities must be provided in Govt bus depots and ease of use and in maintenance areas of govt bus stands. Govt must analyze by visits to places like shenzhen, china and USA and europe or ask them to come and present their view points on using different buses for public transport and reduce pollution and reduce cost of travel
5. Number of school uniforms if possible must be increased to 2 sets per year. The students if they wear same set for full year it gets torn. Govt students face a lot of difficulty.
6. TN govt must see ways to give away free electric or hybrid autos to promote use of electric autos in cities and town. Leading a way towards a green society and in turn will build ecosystem of electric vehicles in bikes, cars, etc,. Currently electric vehicles are almost 0.1% of total vehicles or less. So TN govt must take urgent steps like reducing taxes to zero.
7. TN govt must focus on introducing free breakfast to govt school students.
8. Availability of PC and laptop in schools with separate lab will go a long way. All students getting access to PC will pave way for more development.
9. No TN Govt minister is available in social networking sites like facebook and twitter to escalate maters. The delay in escalation will lead to issues later. Social networks have 2 things. The speed at which a matter is resolved it will give good name. Also the negative is many might send wrong infor at times or troll for various reasons. But if someone can be patient and review once in a while it will help in long run for both people and the minister and the govt to grow to next level. Otherwise the minister will never know the issue at ground level.
10. Promoting of cooptex brand by newspaper and online ads and referral program.

Tambaram Railway Station Issues - Review

•  To prevent public comments of new tambaram railway station to opened in December as no major new facilities created for public. Please implement following suggestions as quickly as possible. All facilities were engineering facilities for Railways to benefit but nothing much for public. And nothing much has changed basically for public facilities. 1. LED display of train timing, details, pf no in tambaram east visible from entrance 2. led display of coach position 3. train stoppage increase to 4 mins 4. New shelters or replace very old ones 5. New trains to thiruvannamalai immediately with EMU as fast local
• Lack of Train timings, train details, platform details outside tambaram east side booking counter. If it is placed near staircase of east side facing towards east entrance it will help a lot to quickly glance and proceed. The details must be visible on viewing from the tambaram entrance itself for quickly deciding. The display TV on foot over bridge must be in working condition any issue must be quickly rectified. Same case with west side entry also. LED display will be much better since LED TV dont work for years and suddenly get issues. LED Display has long life.
• Public have been requesting for several years that Tambaram station (TBM) lacks display of coach position in the platform to indicate the next train no, train name in scrolling text, the coach position, the estimated arrival time. Public have to run helter skelter when train comes not knowing where exactly the coach will come and train stops for very few mins. But in stations like chengalpet, thanjavur, and villupuram a intermediary station the functionalities to display coach position are there. But in tambaram it is missing. It hardly costs few thousands with thousands of passengers boarding every day and revenue earnt. Same can be considered for mambalam station also.
• All trains stopping in Tambaram must be increased from 2 mins to 4 mins considering the huge crowd boarding and the huge baggage's nowadays everyone takes along. In 2 mins it is not possible for senior citizens to board and with baggage's. Any way trains have enough cushion time for further journey and it can be covered up. Where people board in large numbers it will be beneficial. People dont worry of train delays of upto 30 mins at destination also. It will help a lot to many. I see many running to catch trains day in and out.
• The roofs for express train departure are leaking during rains. It has not been replaced as per station development plans.  The same old roofs are being used and not a single inch has been replaced before opening new Tambaram terminal. Which is not fair. The roofs must be wide enough so that during rains the platforms dont get wet also.
• Lack of visible RPF presence along the platforms at all times in both express departure and suburban platform (zero presence). The RPF are available at times in express departure during peak hours but not always with space for them to stay. The railways has to create small room for them to stay and monitor cctv footage. Security has been a major concern.
• Lack of more vendors in express departure platform post half of the platform. Scope for more revenue.
• Cars are parked in tambaram east side without having any specific car parking area allotted. Southern railway has given tender but you have space near bike parking. The tambaram east must be for entry and exit and not permanent parking blocking passengers who come in taxi and auto to enter and exit. Take help of RPF and TN Traffic police to manage situation.
• Toilets in platforms middle portion will help a lot in express departure and suburban platforms with high usage. Toilets in suburban platforms with good discharge and constant cleaning will help. A cleaner appointed with modern machines to quickly clean will help prevent unsuitability after few months due to stench and unclean place.There is new toilet build in tambaram east side is much appreciated.
• The lack of drinking water refill counters in Tambaram station is missing for long distance train departure platforms.
• Need for departure trains from tambaram to Trichy, Thiruvannamalai, Tirupathi,  Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Rameswaram to put it in Indian map of key railway stations. Some of the existing trains can be extended upto tambaram and some new. Dont create a situation of no new trains from tambaram it will be total waste. The ICF train rakes of pandian and rockfort which were converted to LHB must also be put to use with at least few non premium trains to trichy and bangalore.
• People are eagerly awaiting start of A/C EMU coaches in Chennai suburban section. Why cant ICF run A/C EMU coaches as fast local to earn more revenue. Take a deadline of April 2017 for chennai A/C EMU.
• Need to build one escalators in downward direction in tambaram east side. Why only escalator in one direction only. Some big time failure in thinking. You can get sponsors for ad space in existing elevator to check . The ads can be placed as people move upward and put ads above escalator and in sides of the railings. Based on testing the earning you can calculate the time to recover cost. also in next 2 months you can construct downward escalator also before opening otherwise people will mock that no new facility was created but just opened. 
• In next one year we need for large lifts and escalator in downward direction to express departure platform.
• Please build compound wall between tambaram to tambaram sanitorium station many places people tend to enter the station compound. There is no RPF also to monitor these things. Compounds in many areas have been broken by contractors and mischief mongers. So please raise it to avoid line crossing. 
• Need for fast local every one hour upto 11AM also. Currently there is no fast local post 9 AM. But in a city like chennai we have work shifts round the clock. But if no fast local after 9AM it is affecting many who go for afternoon shift. Dont outrightly reject but try to run a few. In future fast locals can be converted to AC EMU by april 2017. Chennai suburban should start AC EMU as soon as possible dont wait for budgets. already mumbai got its share. Adding more fast in evening from 4PM  - 7PM also.
• Lack of trains from Chennai Beach to Thiruvannamalai (Shiva temple) as fast local to benefit the religious people and tourists. The route upto villupuram has double line and can be used effectively. In case of preference to express trains then the same can be overtaken at necessary stations with proper planning. There is currently no direct service and lakhs of public travel daily. But specifically all Govts after BG conversion avoided running new trains in this route. The route is electrified and can be used for running existing EMU trains which run as fast local. Atleast 4 trips can be possible daily as an initial trial. The demand is very high on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in both ways.  Same way an EMU from chengalpet to tirupathi can be launched as fast local EMU for religious tourists especially in weekends. There is space in this route to operate with double line. I think Railways has necessary tools.
• The pondicherry passenger is lying wasted in Tambaram station from morning. It can be used to run a passenger from Tambaram to Thiruvannamalai as first choice daily and on few days to tirupathi also. And the same rake can be used again anyway at tambaram no maintenance is being done. The pondicherry passenger is not maintained also because its schedule is some where else for maintenance. Atleast run as train for heaven sake to benefit public at suitable timings atleast in weekends.
• It was expected that Tambaram station enough space for a 2 new platforms to be build. But Railway officials may be are planning to use existing long distance trains platforms itself when there was enough space available. The new 2 platforms can be used for departure of new trains. But i dont know if Railway has planned well to use existing platforms for departure which might affect in near future say 5 years.
• By April 2017 Southern Railway must launch free wi-fi inside the suburban trains. People need inside trains and not in stations. Nobody stays in station more than half hour and no use it will be to anyone. Inside trains which travel more than 12 hours and in non AC compartment and unreserved will help a lot. In unreserved if preference is given for free wi-fi it will help to pass time in the heavy rush and the pain people have to endure in long distance unreserved travel. It will also give good test for the wifi at peak levels instead of testing with AC compartments in which very less travel and also they have dongle of their own or have good data packs. The poor and middle class travel in unreserved hence facilities for them will help.
• Many areas along GST and in suburban routes have not been compounded after tambaram stations leading to public crossing at night time. The drivers can not even expect and it leads to deaths. Atleast in key sections where people cross please compund it.

New Education policy - 2016

•Incubation centres under each State Govt with funding of minimum 100 crores every year to promote new innovation in schools and colleges both public and private. An integrated online portal to submit by students and teachers must be kept. Globally teachers do more research than students leading to students helping them and learning. So the incubation centres must support both students and teachers.
•Central govt separate incubation fund of 500 crores per year for innovation across age group and institutions of any nature. A separate team must be formed with panelists from all ministries and departments. Approval must be less than 45 days if exceeded then genuine reason for rejection must be given. All meetings must be by online and for going through the proposals online skype meeting to present to reduce cost
•Teachers must take up online test every week irrespective of state govt or private institution at both school and college level. The test will give immediate feedback to education ministry of each state and HRD to focus on grey areas and give training for teachers in those subjects in details. And also supply materials to the students or revise syllabus accordingly to understand.
•Same way school students must undergo online test on all subjects in language of their choice in both CBSE, state govt school and colleges to get feedback on the understanding of the student community knowledge. The test must be available to students to take either in college or school premises or outside also in own free time. The test marks must be not taken for evaluation but to understand their knowledge level. The students can refer online also to pass exam. The analytics on the data will give more insight on what is wrong fundamentally
•Increasing number of KV schools in all districts across India and increasing size of KV schools to accommodate more students. More NIT must be setup in more districts across the country to bring out more talent. Currently for few seats students have to over compete with cut throat competition. Is this the way the students and their parents have to suffer
•Bihar board exams are a classic example of how the education setup has been fooled around to help the students pass with illegal methods. Lack of centralised team monitoring exams of such states like Bihar is needed.
•Correspondence courses are very poor with lack of any classes taken. All courses must be compulsorily available online to study as most of the time waiting for books delays the study. Compulsorily classes or online material for 40% of the course duration needed.
•Ranking of govt schools and govt colleges by HRD and independent authorities. Currently ranking of private schools and colleges are done by paid news and magazines. The government can focus on ranking of govt schools to bring more to govt schools to give quality education.
•Creating standard lab manuals, lab instructor training, key equipment should be available in all labs for each subject for every 40 students. Our labs are sealed immediately post 4PM and nobody is ready to give extra training to students. Every Saturday every week in schools and colleges which are currently announced as leave must be marked for labs practical's and sports alone. The same will go a long way in promoting overall growth
•Sports or extra curricular activities no marks are allotted. So marks of at least 50 added in board exams for those who have an extra skill must be created. Adding marks will only make students and parents serious. The extra – curricular activities may be anything like sports player at school or district or state level, singer, artist, innovator, etc,.
•Teachers and students must be brought under Aadhaar based attendance system. There is so much fraud happening as many don’t govt school/colleges on time or don’t take classes. Students who don’t come to govt school are in the attendance and many claims are made in their name in fraud accounts which leads as loss to exchequer. The system will save crores of loss to Govt and in turn can be used to cut salary or put automatic leave for teachers who don’t go to school on time. The opportunity to know the amount of time which has to be extended in work to compensate must be given till end of month as an opportunity to compensate the time lag. Portal will help.
•Overall the Education policy is very good. It clearly is some of the hard work of Smriti Irani also. Thanks to her also as she is a warrior but due to some political concerns she had to be moved to different ministry as opposition was preventing free working of education ministry and here controversial comments. Smriti Irani and team have done a great work. Only few people in this country know. Some may talk about yoga and Sanskrit but many areas are being covered which will take India definitely forward.

Indian Railways – New Concept to run new trains with existing rakes

•Indian Railways must consider running new trains with idling rakes of trains for more than 10 hours in various stations across India. The idling rakes are those which have arrived early morning and will be put to use only in the night. So even if maintenance is done it will have window of 10 hours minimum to operate as a day time train. The idling rakes can play a major role in distance of 400kms or less with much ease and pair rakes available.
•If a pair of trains are idling at both points then they can be run in the day time to reach their respective starting points so the entire train is not affected at all at the same time the rake has been utilised for an extra journey also. This will help bring in Railways extra revenue as your idling rake is going to bring you revenue as well as you are completing maintenance in 4 hours or so also. The availability of engines must not be a major concern as we have enough engines and railway staff required. Railways might easily give some reasons for this method but at least give a try with few trains across India.
•This concept will be very useful in concepts of trains of less than 400kms distance or around with the time frame available. This concept can at least be tried in certain routes instead of down right saying it cant be possible. There is nothing wrong in trying new things there might be a very big scope to earn or double the revenue in a route by operating new trains which Indian Railways might not have even thought of.
•These trains can be trailed on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday only as other days the success of the scheme cant be ensured. Many will put leave on Friday and start to travel to their destination and same for Monday also. The 4 days can help reap in huge revenues in selecting routes and trains which can be considered for this concept. Also running second sitting trains if any rake unused at night can be used to shuttle a trip if possible for public.
•For example idling rakes of Rock Fort Express (Train No 1677 and 16178) which are unused from 05:30 to 22:30 can be used to run day time train between Chennai to Trichy which has super high demand for trains. Since the train has 2 pair of rakes it can be re-used once run as day time train and reaches the respective destinations for usage at night time for normal operations. It will be major success if trailed on Friday, Saturday, Sunday immediately to gauge success. Also DRM Chennai will take decision on time of trains based on maintenance schedule adjusted to succeed in this step.
•Similar pattern applies to Uzhlavan express (Train no : 16183/16184) (Can run one more trip between Chennai to Thanjavur) and pandian express (Train no: 12637/12638) (Can run one more trip between Chennai to Madurai) as day time trains instead of wasting double line between MAS-VM.
•Please consider launching train from New Delhi to Rameswaram as a mark of respect for APJ Abdul Kalam. The train can be named as APJ Abdul Kalam as a respect for the great soul. Currently trains are not run in the name of any personality. It can also be named of Govt choice if any concerns. The train must touch Chennai, Trichy, Madurai. The possible departure from Delhi on Sunday at 08:35 (Bhopal: 19:05, Nagpur:01:15, BALHARSHAH:04:30 Vijayawada: 11:35, Egmore:18:50, Villupuram: 21:20, Trichy: 00:35, Madurai:03:25, Rameswaram:07:30 ) or with Wednesday/Friday departure at New Delhi 06:45 (Bhopal: 16:15, Nagpur:22:20, BALHARSHAH:01:30 ,Vijaywada:08:00,Egmore:15:10, Villupuram: 17:50, Trichy: 21:00, Madurai: 00:15, Rameswaram: 04:30). The current Govt has got bad name for not running any new train for last 2 years and avoided this issue.
•Need for passenger or express trains between Chennai Egmore -  Tiruvannamalai (TNM) via Villupuram (VM) a religious town for Shiva named Annamalaiyar temple a representation of fire and is one of the Pancha Bhoota Stalas. There were trains run for decades before last government stopped the trains and forgot to re-run the trains. It has been a great difficulty for people as every day thousands have to go and buses are people have to entirely depend on buses to go to the temple. The train can be run with existing rake of Chennai – Pondicherry express rake to run a train departure from Chennai at 7AM reaches around 11:30 at tiruvannamal, return from Thiruvannamalai at 12 to Chennai at 1PM, Chennai to Thiruvannamalai between 1PM – 6PM, last train with overnight from Thiruvannamalai at 11:45 to travel overnight to Chennai at 05:00. Somehow you run a train at least twice or thrice a day. The train ran years ago but it was stopped for no reason and it has deprived temple goers severely as people and elderly prefer direct trains

Traffic at Tambaram West, Perungulathur, T.Nagar solutions

•The traffic at tambaram and perungulathur are a day to day affair for people exiting Chennai or entering Chennai. The traffic at perungulathur is due to convergence of traffic from CMBT and tambaram side to exit Chennai towards Villupuram, Thanjavur and Trichy and as buses stop to drop and pick up passengers when other vehicles cannot move around leading to traffic jams for several kms causing hours to cross this section of 5 kms day after day and in weekends it takes several hours. I am not sure if CM has been informed of the situation which is causing difficulty for decades.
•Immediate solution for perungulathur will be demolishing the buildings and land space and compound walls immediately after perungulathur bus stop towards Villupuram to gain some space up to Shriram IT Gateway. You can gain some space by reducing width of the medians up to Vandalur. One side we have Railway station but we have not used the land or build road close to the compound wall to put to good use. We have space for one more bus to park also. The signal immediately near perungulathur is very small width and removing buildings and old police station building there will help get enough space to prevent traffic blockage as buses which enter GST again from bus stand. If in Medavakkam TN Govt can solve issue then in perungulathur also we can solve the cost of solution will be much cheaper compared to the 10 year old issue.
•There is a need for flyover/underpass at perungulathur starting at least 1 km away (small flyover will again lead to more traffic) for vehicles which need to cross this junction. This flyover will benefit trucks and cars which can cross with ease. The lack of Development of new IT companies post perungulathur is the fear that employees might not reach on time due to traffic jam preventing lack of investments in Guduvanchery and other areas as per previous expectations. If we use underpass it can exit post Guduvanchery or up to 1st toll in GST near Paranur with toll road underneath. Building underneath roads is common globally.
•The flyover in tambaram west side is being put to wrong use. The buses entering the tambaram west bus stand near railway station enter exactly near the mouth of the flyover leading to improper usage. The buses must enter the bus stand below the flyover at least 300 metres away from mouth to enable buses to enter and exit easily. The removal of temporary and movable medians at tambaram west causes difficulty for even buses to move easily. It seems like Traffic police have ill planned the entire process here. Drones will give a clear picture of the traffic to design better solutions.
•There is also need for flyover starting near tambaram west bus stand and crossing MEPZ signal to ease traffic congestion. Or independent flyovers/grade separators at tambaram west and MEPZ for ease of traffic during peak hours. Public feedback through press leaks important to judge public and media feedback. Press leaks will help.
•Need for foot over bridge at tambaram west and also extending existing subway in tambaram west which currently ends in west side of railway station to underneath the tambaram railway station to exit at tambaram east side. The FOB will help continuous flow of traffic and signal can be removed for continuous green. Since the signal is very close to flyover it affects flow of traffic. TN Govt must not go and keep asking Railways to share cost but independently do quickly as long time issue of traffic at tambaram and it has been like for decades. At least consider for implementing this low cost idea do get feedback from public. Public generally believe that whenever traffic police is not there the flow of traffic is good. It means they need more good training and scientific methods and drones to understand traffic pattern over weeks to get best solution.
•Need for FOB opposite pothys, T.Nagar for public to cross road. The traffic police has to stop traffic every few minutes for public to cross road. If FOB is there parallel to flyover from Nalli to Saravana store side and traffic police ensures non stop flow of traffic it will reduce traffic blocks. Also have lifts for old and disabled to use FOB more as our people have become lazy to walk on steps. There is not enough space to build FOB like in MEPZ, Sanitorium but a mini FOB to easy flow of traffic will help. It is a simple solution but TN police has so many officer I don’t know what they did for so long. Or did Govt and Chennai corporation did not want to fix issue. The T.Nagar shops pay so much tax and every festive season the traffic jam causes lot of issues. Chennai corporation keeps saying we are going to build flyover to ease traffic but FOB will ease traffic immediately and you will see benefit in long run.
•Do ask govt officials and ministers to leak news on what govt is planning to do on the above issues. Then based on feedback the best solution can be taken up forward. Public would also like to know why above methods were not adopted or even considered for several years now. TN must allow govt officials and ministers to talk out of turn on issues and possible solutions. This will help get feedback to take a good decision. But neither govt officials nor ministers leak any new development projects to any newspaper or media leading to lack of feedback and govt implements something and the public feedback is not considered. So before implementing news leaks will help to get feedback. The govt instead of firing any minister or transferring officials can say like “We have not yet decided it is just a possible thought.”. There is nothing wrong in trying new things. There is nothing wrong in stopping a bad project by feedback. There is nothing wrong in rolling back some changes which have not been beneficial. It is not that any decision has been taken is final. It is not that nobody should make mistakes. It is how fast we correct the mistakes is important. How proactively new methods are adopted. If govt is very confident that it will be success then they should proceed irrespective of the concerns raised in the hope it will benefit thousands of public.
•Newspapers will easily print if officials or lower level staff have contacts with journalists and inform the plans. The journalist will just put as top sources confirmed so no issues. The news leaks methods should be adopted for other long standing issues also.

Railways – Station Development Fee of Rs.50 from 1 A/C, Rs.40 from 2 A/C, Rs. 20 from 3A/C tickets

•Railways must consider implementing fee of Rs.20 on A/C tickets of 3A/C, 40 for 2A/C, 50 for 1 A/C in order to develop railway stations. The amount must be split into 3 for the departure station(30%), the destination station(30%) development and remaining 20% for other stations in the region from departure and 20% for destination region (where DEMU/EMU/passenger trains stop). This funds must not be used for giving salary for Railway staff or normal operations. The funds must be clearly split up by Finance dept.
•This concept of development of railway station will be called crowd funding with help of funds from the rich and upper middle class who travel in A/C classed like A/C sleeper 3AC,2AC,1AC, Chair Car, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, etc,. If you put same Rs.20 it would create problems as politicians will raise issue but for A/C nobody can make any comments. A/C is not affecting poor any way. All tickets booked by  MP & MLA must be charged Rs.50 flat irrespective of class they must contribute to nation building.
•The funds must be separated from the other Railway funds and must be marked for station development and activities identified by consultation with travellers. Mostly these funds can be used for development of stations where the express trains stop. The other stations in which passenger trains stop can be developed with the portion of the funds as the poor use passenger trains only. Express train stops in which most passengers get down can be developed faster with these funds from tickets. Don’t add this charge to sleeper fares to avoid political backlash.
•For example the funds of Rs.20 per seat * 72 (No of seats per Chair Car) * 30 days (roughly 1 trip per day) = Roughly 40,000 per coach. This fund can be put to good use. On average if a train has 3 A/C coaches it will go into lakhs in a month.  Every 3 months funds can be though out on which project can be utilised. Another Example: If you take any train which has sleeper coaches on an average it will have 3 coaches consider 1 for 2A/C 1 or 3A/C the total seats is 110 seats * 20(per seat) * 30 days (roughly 1 per day) = 66,000 per coach. The funds will supplement the usual allocation from Ministry faster.
•The railway IRCTC must be automated to deposit the amount automatically based on the passenger ticket to concerned funds. The funds must be credited daily at end of day to concerned station, region and division. The same must be available for display in online portal for public to see to avoid unwanted repeated RTI. In IRCTC portal also in case booked online must be displayed in the account of the user itself on the money credited.
•Actually this will help faster development of stations in the region instead of Railway minister and ministry saying there is lack of funds year after year to deny public the facilities. And private wont invest in all stations so this concept will development without depending on anyone but crowd sourced by the upper middle class to develop stations. And also we need to go and ask state govt to sign up for JV and other compulsions.
•These funds must be utilised with acceptance of suggestions of MP, MLA, public feedback, Passenger association, Railway unions before implementing any project. The project plan must be put up for public union by press release in the concerned railway authority and through twitter handles. This will lead to transparency. The decision of the Railway authorities will be final but suggestions must be taken and clarified every 3 months before taking decision and the minutes of meeting must be released as press release in concerned authority. Even if decision to wait for more funds to accumulate also must be conveyed if amount is not feasible to use. Since each major station there is a passenger welfare association so discussion will help.
•The facilities which can be implemented with these funds are a) X-Ray Machines b) Hand held scanner devices c) Unreserved ticket booking machines with helper staff to ease crowd at counters and help illiterate to book also d) Cost of deploying security in sensitive areas with CRPF or Army e) Lifts f) Trolleys to carry baggage's from end of platform to another g) Escalators(Important) h) Purified Refillable water near every 2 train coaches i) Wheelchairs j) Retiring Rooms k) Rooms to stay near tourist spots l) Mosquito repellent/killer light in railway premises m) CCTV Cameras n) Free Wi-Fi o) Display TV p) Parking Facility for Bikes & Cars q) LED running display without TV in platform to indicate next train no, destination, coach number r) Dustbins s) New terminal Development t) Platform cleaning devices u) Golf Cart electric vehicles for elderly to travel easily from one platform to another with lifts of larger size for vehicles to also travel v) Fitting of bio-toilets in requested trains  w) Retiring rooms with A/C and good bathroom facilities x) Retiring hotels in major tourist destinations in railway premises with funds accrued over a long time.
•Railways charge very high rates for tatkal but no funds from that where deployed in station deployment. And once in 5 years Railways put one lift or an escalator but the time you put escalators and lifts in all stations and all platforms in express train stops even Kenya will become a developed country. So increase speed of development in the country and also to crowd fund the new method of financing. Please raise platform height of pamban, mandapam camp railway station near Rameswaram to BG height
•We need not go and beg to any funding organisation for our projects. Indians are not poor we are capable of building our country. The compulsions of world bank post loan from them are under lying and Indian economy will suffer by that. Railways taking billions of loans from world bank at high interest rate will affect Indian Economy.

UTS Mobile App – Review Microsoft Lumia phone – One Time login, Allow booking by app in station platform by removing GPS precision logic, Add payment options like banks, debit/credit cards, Remove Rs.10 charge per transaction, Add app ads for revenue

•The “searching your location” concept must be removed from the UTS app as it prevents booking inside station premises. The app prevents users to book after entering the station premises. I raised the same issue few months back but has not been fixed. It says the GPS precision is 33 metres and I need to go outside the station for 33 metres and less than 5 kms to get the ticket booked. This app is a big joke and why this concept within app remove it. At least we are trying to book ticket & travel. Please release update to fix this issue as soon as possible or give clarification as to why it cant be done to give alternative.
•Every time we need to book tickets you are making us login. Most apps like Facebook, twitter and other wallets also take password for first time and then the data is stored in the phone or app. The login details are not requested every time it will save some time and immediately book tickets for those in a hurry. Most suburban travellers catch trains quickly will be benefitted if each time login with password is removed. So please make app as one time login to easily use for daily purpose.
•The R-wallet recharge facility must have options similar to IRCTC to pay through banks, debit and credit cards. Why favouritism for paytm alone. And also for every Rs.100 why we need to pay Rs.10 extra per transaction is against “Digital India” & Financial inclusion mission of Govt of India and Finance Ministry. Rs.10 in suburban can be used to travel for one day for passengers.
•The option to recharge R-Wallet “Through paytm” is only there. In payment type add other payment options other than R-wallet also like banks, debit, credit cards. In that if you ant you add other wallet companies like paytm, fast recharge, oxygen wallet, etc,. Don’t favour just paytm alone. Public sector banks come first, then private banks, debit/credit cards then wallets.
•I cant change the GPS precision of my phone but just allow us to book tickets why are you worried on from where we are booking. Nobody is going to cheat right. For example say if a person without ticket after seeing a ticket checker books a ticket also in the platform. You are not going to lose anything at least he books the ticket right.
•If you don’t allow as per above concept then people will tend to travel without taking tickets from counter due to crowd and app also not allowing to book tickets. Is the intention of Railways to make itself run free of cost for public by blocking all options available to us to book tickets easily.
•For ATVM machines less than 1% of the suburban passengers know to use. Since Rail Card was not issued and it doesn’t accept debit and credit cards. Even metro station ticket vending machines allow other cards. At least 50% of the users of suburban are uneducated you cant expect them to use ATVM also. The remaining 50% app wont allow to book after entering station premises. So there you go your loss percentage printed everywhere on the ticket.
•UTS app can earn from revenue by putting ads in the app. But I am damn sure even if you don’t implement above you will do anything for revenue. All the Best! The suggestions will take less than 1 week by your IT team to implement if you are willing to implement.

APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial Design

•Based on my visit to Rameswaram I would like to send my suggestions and thoughts for consideration to build APJ Abdul Kalam memorial and concepts. APJ Abdul Kalam memorial wouldn’t have been possible without the support of local who where ready to give up their ancestors land for the great soul. The efforts of Sagayam IAS and TN Govt to help to get the land in quick notice and over coming pressures of APJ family members who focussed more on religion part than the great man himself. PM should meet Sagayam IAS one day and consider pulling to PM team whenever possible. TN Govt it seems is ready to give more space of 5 acres I heard. Modi has strong liking from public for effort

•APJ Memorial must have following features:

•Children’s Park with slides, sand sculpting space with beach sand, merry go round, see saw, exercise bars, large play pen with junction box, ball pit, net climb, web crawl, punching bags, etc,.

•Science Lab with experiments and project understandable to all age groups on basic concepts of science to understand the world around us. The next 3 or 4 floors for scientists only to do lab testing on various areas like bio technology, physics lab, chemistry and bio logy labs. The labs for school and college student's to display their projects free of cost must be provided selected every 3 months by elite panel so that everyone gets change to display often. The same projects must be uploaded in the website created for the memorial.

•Multi purpose Mini-Theatre cum Auditorium cum planetarium with 300-400 capacity to play APJ Biography with subtitles in English, Hindi and Tamil played with voice dubbed in English, Hindi and Tamil alternatively every 30 mins. Inviting speeches regularly by scientist on weekends and having competitions like science quiz, etc,. Online streaming of major events live and stored in YouTube for others to get inspired and learn new things.

•Rose & Flower park similar to Mughal gardens in Rashtrapathi Bhavan made by experts as sand in Rameswaram may not suitable. APJ loves flowers. Entire area must be green with grass and trees of all varieties like coconut, palm, mango and other after suitably changing the sand since it is in beach sand.

•APJ Museum with various portion of his life and speeches can be shown in LED TV with some only audio and some both video & audio taken from DD & All India Radio. Option to hear the dubbed version through headphones must be given with 20 to 30 slots for each TV.

•DRDO can take separate space in the museum with photos and unique models on APJ contribution to DRDO

•Wax statue of APJ to take photos inside the memorial complex

•Free tree samplings given to those who want to buy from there at best price of less than Rs.50. APJ loved trees so much and nature.

•ISRO must keep replicas of PSLV with more than 9 feet. ISRO contribution must be made separate session

•Presence of 2 CRPF as protection for the area and as respect for him to take care of security, flag hoisting activities daily and to support TN police. Increase security once fully built.

•Library with 2 sections one which holds APJ collection and other pat with best books selected by elite panel for both sale & reading

•X-Ray scanning devices of visitors on an average at least 2000 people visit daily and CCTV cameras to increase security.

•Flag Hoisting not done daily the TN Govt and union govt must ensure the same. Have we become too lazy to hoist the Indian national flag daily

•Granite or Marble Enclosure for APJ Abdul Kalam resting place. The resting place must be a rectangular space and not reflect any religion.

•Sales Exhibition to maintain such large facility can be run by DRDO and not any private contractor or APJ family members. To sell books, science materials, science projects, science books to inspire many youth and public who visit from all parts of the country

•His best speeches must made as DVD and sold at low cost with in video format updated every year to add new items

•Banning of photography near his resting place. It is very tough to see people taking selfies of his resting place. Photos in other spots can be allowed

•His best speeches must be present all over the place in major languages to inspire the future generations also

•Annual competitions for children and youth in various needed

•Sports Stadium with multi level complex – 1) 2 Badminton 2) Table Tennis 3) Tennis Court 4) Billiards/Snooker 5) 1 Basket Ball Court to promote sports in the region 6) swimming pool of global standard 7) chess

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•APJ Start-up Science Fund must be created with initial corpus of 100 crores. An elite panel of judges from across the scientific community in India must be invited to shortlist application from school and college students every 6 months through online portal. The selected top 100 must be invited to present and the govt must fund 100 or best among if found suitable to develop project. Google and major start-ups in the globe where helped by the countries at some point of time. Giving a NEFT code in the memorial to transfer funds to the Account for further development of science in the region and India.

•APJ House has no ventilation and it is too hot inside. The A/C and others are switched off and makes it difficult to stay inside in spite of people want to read through all the documents. Either keep the house windows open for air from the sea to blow inside or make the A/C work. In solar A/C wont work.